Octave Mirbeau Quotes
While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what I was, when she breathed the true and foul odor of my soul, love was born in her – for she does love me! Well, well! There is nothing real, then, except evil.
Octave Mirbeau
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Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
R. L. Stine
You mustn't upstage the bride.
Ian Mckellen
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.
Mal Peet
Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
Ibrahim Rugova
It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
Tahar Rahim
I had listened to Joe Turner. When they'd book Joe there, I'd play the blues behind him.
Jay McShann
Unfunny people should be locked up, the key tossed into a smelter.
Patrick deWitt
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
Isaac Asimov
The hero is the world-man, in whose heart One passion stands for all, the most indulged.
Philip James Bailey
It is one of the perceptual defects of Western government and press to assign Western-style motives to what people do in non-Western societies, as if these are universally relevant.
William Pfaff
While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what I was, when she breathed the true and foul odor of my soul, love was born in her – for she does love me! Well, well! There is nothing real, then, except evil.
Octave Mirbeau