Herge famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.

  • Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.

  • As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.

  • Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.

  • Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.

  • Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasn’t easy. I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage.

  • I'm sorry? No more smooches is worse than the world ending?

  • I wondered about the explorers who'd sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when they risked falling over the edge; how amazed to discover, instead, places they had seen only in their dreams.

  • Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.

  • Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things...

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