Top 21 Villon Quotes
#3. 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
#4. 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
#6. This was what he was born for. This was what made sense. The only thing.
T.C. Boyle
#7. But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
Francois Rabelais
#9. Lucy constituted only 28 per cent of a half skeleton (and only about 20 per cent of a full one).
Bill Bryson
#10. 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. Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.
Alison Bechdel
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. Japanese would never 'restore' an antique. The signs of age and wear are to them its most beautiful qualities.
Tom Hoover
#20. There are things that happen that change the course of people's lives, but it's a function of everybody's lives.
Nicholas Sparks
#21. 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
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