Villon Quotes

#1. Varese, Apollinaire, Ezra Pound, Leger, Gleizes, Severini, Villon, Duchamp, Duchamp-Villon, Marie Laurencin, Cocteau and many others were to me household names in the literal sense - names of familiar figures around the house.

Jacques Barzun

#2. They pulled Ezra through the streets in a wooden cage. Blake was sure of God. Villon was a mugger. Lorca sucked cock. T. S. Eliot worked a teller's cage

Charles Bukowski

#3. But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.

Francois Rabelais

#4. I think the people are just looking for freedom in music ... There's a lot of she-bop she-bop going on out there. Maybe they're tired of that same old thing.

Rick James

#5. There are things that happen that change the course of people's lives, but it's a function of everybody's lives.

Nicholas Sparks

#6. My days are gone a-wandering.

Francois Villon

#7. Japanese would never 'restore' an antique. The signs of age and wear are to them its most beautiful qualities.

Tom Hoover

#8. In my own country I am in a far off land.
I am strong but have no power.
I win all yet remain a loser.
At break of day I say goodnight.
When I lie down I have great fear of falling.

Francois Villon

#9. Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.

Alison Bechdel

#10. rush-hour commuters who were surprised by

Nicholas Sparks

#11. I die of thirst beside the fountain.

Francois Villon

#12. You have all the influence you choose to have.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#13. I'm not going away. I'll still be very much involved in the team but not with the same number of hours. I need to move over and allow the people who are really doing the job the space to do so.

Jackie Stewart

#14. Lucy constituted only 28 per cent of a half skeleton (and only about 20 per cent of a full one).

Bill Bryson

#15. But where are the snows of yester year?

Francois Villon

#16. This was what he was born for. This was what made sense. The only thing.

T.C. Boyle

#17. Good talkers are only found in Paris.

Francois Villon

#18. Where is the pricing system that offers the consumer a fair choice between air to breathe and motor cars to drive about in?

Joan Robinson

#19. Yet, if the world were bettered by
My death or story left untold,
I would condemn myself to die
For misdemeanours manifold:
I bring no harm to young or old
Alive or dead, in either case:
A man so needy never rolled
A mountain from its resting place.

Francois Villon

#20. We were two and had but one heart.

Francois Villon

#21. I know everything except myself.

Francois Villon