Vieille Quotes

#1. On the illusive "Monsieur Hortalez." When my friend Steven and I went looking for the building one afternoon, we came to the address at 47 rue Vieille-du-Temple and realized we had been there before.

Sarah Vowell

#2. A lot of people don't just go ahead and try things.

Pierre Omidyar

#3. The Tin Woodman knew very well he had no heart, and therefore he took great care never to be cruel or unkind to anything.

L. Frank Baum

#4. And so she ghosted on, in relentless pursuit of escape, not from society, but from herself.

Robyn Schneider

#5. The world will be hostile, it will be suspicious of your intent, it will misinterpret you, it will inject you with doubt, it will flatter you into self-sabotage. What the world is, more than anything? It's indifferent.

Maria Semple

#6. History is the in-rushing toward what the Buddhists call the realm of the densely packed, a transformational realm where the opposites are unified.

Terence McKenna

#7. The feathery palms that lined the drainage canals, the acacia thorns and sycamores, all glistened with the sheen of new, pale-green leaves, and in Khaemwaset's gardens the vivid clusters of flowers had begun to bloom with an abandon that assaulted the eyes and filled the nostrils with delight.

Pauline Gedge

#8. I didn't go to graduate school, where all the important writers seemed to be getting their start. I didn't pursue getting published in literary magazines. I didn't even send out countless pitch letters and manuscripts to agents.

Jami Attenberg

#9. We live in an era now where every episode is reviewed 80 different times on the Internet by periodicals you've never even heard of.

Christopher Lloyd

#10. Liam was a great many things, but mysterious and unpredictable weren't included in that deck of cards.

Alexandra Bracken

#11. I don't have very eclectic tastes in music.

John Petrucci

#12. Often I choose characters who express not my best self, but the sides of me I haven't developed or haven't expressed.

Kate Christensen

#13. If we are crazy, then it is because we refuse to be crazy in the same way that the world has gone crazy.

Peter Maurin

#14. I like your story," I say, running my hand up his sweater. "Happy endings are sexy." Ford grins. "When you say shit like that, I can't believe you don't hear how fucking dirty you sound.

Bijou Hunter

#15. But I had loved him. A part of me still did. Maybe more than a part of me, because I'm a complete moron.

Meg Cabot

#16. Most people understand everything except what is right.

Debasish Mridha