Home
Topics
Authors
:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Marguerite Duras Quotes

I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.

Marguerite Duras

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: french
Birth: April 4, 1914 - March 3, 1996

Topics

Mother People Believe Madness Follow

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Man Religion Thought Build Frozen

I have an opportunity now with some of the projects I've done, i.e. the North Pole and the South Pole, to speak to a larger audience and talk about things that have nothing to do with physical education or special ed.

Ann Bancroft

Education Opportunity Speak Done Now

That was just kind of a surprise when the doctor said, 'We did a biopsy on your appendix, and you have cancer.'

Stuart Scott

Doctor Surprise You Said Kind Just

When you're doing mountain rescue, you don't take a doctorate in mountain rescue; you look for somebody who knows the terrain. It's about context.

Rory Stewart

Mountain Doing You Look Context

I'm a Cubbie. I'll always be a Cubbie.

Ron Santo

Always

If we can't look at the good, bad and ugly of who we are, we are never going to progress as people - ever.

Rosie Perez

Good Progress Ugly People Look Bad

Many years ago, when I was working on Broadway, I used to go to a drug rehabilitation centre on Sundays. I didn't lecture them against the perils of drug-taking; I gave them drama therapy.

Diana Rigg

Drama Go Therapy Years Used Against

You want hot days to get your fruit ripe but then you want it to cool off nicely at night so that the grapes stay on the vine longer and develop complexity.

Drew Bledsoe

Cool Fruit Night You Want Hot

I was writing waltzes at a time when the most popular thing was Shania Twain and the very pop edge of country. I didn't really know how to do much of that.

Chris Stapleton

Time Writing Country Edge Know Pop

I don't want to be remembered as a writer. I would rather be remembered as a storyteller.

Ashwin Sanghi

Want Remembered Would Writer Rather

As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we could use the sea as the ultimate place to dispose of anything we did not want, from garbage and nuclear wastes to sludge from sewage to entire ships that had reached the end of their useful life.

Sylvia Earle

Life Attitude Sea Ocean Child End

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

Thomas Browne

Live Passion Humor Men Reason