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Madam, I have come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.


Leonhard Euler


#country #hanged #i #madam #people

[T]he truth is that fullness of soul can sometimes overflow in utter vapidity of language, for none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.


Gustave Flaubert


#madame-bovary #music #speech #love

When I was 12 years old, I read 'Nancy Drew' mysteries and biographies of Madame Curie and Florence Nightingale and books about girls who love horses or go to nursing school. I belonged to the Girl Scouts and got A's in school and rarely disobeyed my parents. I still kept a collection of Barbie dolls in my room, and I almost never spoke to boys.


Joyce Maynard


#almost #barbie #belonged #biographies #books

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.


Chris Chocola


#being #business #congress #did #elected

Guilt is a useless feeling. It's never enough to make you change direction--only enough to make you useless.


Daniel Nayeri


#madame-vileroy #useless #change

Madam: If you discover any more comets, can you not wait until they are announced by the proper authorities?


George Phillips Bond


#any #authorities #discover #madam #more

The poignant words that Mme Duruflé addressed to one of her American students, saddened that his year's study with her had come to an end, were as apropos at the time of her death: 'Oh no, don't be sad. We have played the prelude to a friendship; we have all of life for the fugue.


James E. Frazier


#maurice-durufle #death

I was also sick of my neighbors, as most Parisians are. I now knew every second of the morning routine of the family upstairs. At 7:00 am alarm goes off, boom, Madame gets out of bed, puts on her deep-sea divers’ boots, and stomps across my ceiling to megaphone the kids awake. The kids drop bags of cannonballs onto the floor, then, apparently dragging several sledgehammers each, stampede into the kitchen. They grab their chunks of baguette and go and sit in front of the TV, which is always showing a cartoon about people who do nothing but scream at each other and explode. Every minute, one of the kids cartwheels (while bouncing cannonballs) back into the kitchen for seconds, then returns (bringing with it a family of excitable kangaroos) to the TV. Meanwhile the toilet is flushed, on average, fifty times per drop of urine expelled. Finally, there is a ten-minute period of intensive yelling, and at 8:15 on the dot they all howl and crash their way out of the apartment to school.” (p.137)


Stephen Clarke


#bed #cannonball #cartoon #cartwheel #ceiling

Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.


Sydney Smith


#disliked #eternal #friendship #gravy #i

She loved the sea for its storms alone, cared for vegetation only when it grew here and there among ruins. She had to extract a kind of personal advantage from things and she rejected as useless everything that promised no immediate gratification — for her temperament was more sentimental than artistic, and what she was looking for was emotions, not scenery.


Gustave Flaubert


#madame-bovary #love






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