Valade Quotes

#1. The sick man is taken away by the institution that takes charge not of the individual, but of his illness, an isolated object transformed or eliminated by technicians devoted to the defense of health the way others are attached to the defense of law and order or tidiness.

Michel De Certeau

#2. Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#3. The only book in our home was the Bible. My parents forbade books. They thought I needed help because I wanted to be a writer!

Ken Bruen

#4. I have Googled myself, yeah, I think everybody has. I try not to make a habit of it - in fact I made a rule once never to Google myself, which made me happy.

Aidan Gillen

#5. Postponed pain is among the most abominable kind to experience.

J.D. Salinger

#6. Our love is an adventurous melody, our souls forever as one.

Angela Richardson

#7. I don't really like hospitals that much. People are sick; sometimes it can be depressing. There's people going through a lot of pain in there. It has that funny smell.

Mekhi Phifer

#8. Sun and moon, sun and moon, time goes.

John Updike

#9. Cinema is magic in the service of dreams.

Djibril Diop Mambety

#10. As the late earl said, 'The early bird catches birds of a like feather,'" she said.
I nodded, not even trying to understand how that would work. At the very least, the combination of proverbs made it somewhat original.

Tarun Shanker

#11. Food simply isn't important to me.

Alice Paul

#12. My dream job has always been to be a ski racer.

Mikaela Shiffrin

#13. A trial deals with only a limited amount of information, considering only the evidence which is available and also admissible and which relates directly to the charges on the indictment.

Nick Davies

#14. I could shoot it with a rubberband

Pam Godwin