"There is no field of activity for great men without the coming of great wars, great struggles and great revolutions."

“All words have the "taste" of a profession, a genre, a tendency, a party, a particular work, a particular person, a generation, an age group, the day and hour. Each word tastes of the context and contexts in which it has lived its socially charged life.”

“I dropped chemistry. I practically blew up the lab in college.”

“Some men, like spaniels, will only fawn the more when repulsed, but will pay little heed to a friendly caress.”

“Vice President Dick Cheney reportedly has been disturbed over what he sees as the erosion of presidential powers since the Watergate scandal and has urged Bush to take a stronger stand against what Cheney sees as congressional intrusions into the executive branch.”

“I pray to God to give me perseverance and to deign that I be a faithful witness to Him to the end of my life for my God.”

Source : Saint Patrick, Saint Secundinus (Bp. in Ireland) (1953). “The works of St. Patrick. Hymn on St. Patrick”

“the breeze brought us a faint sound, as of a distant rat, a huge and mystic rat, gnawing, maybe, at the horizon!”

“In France, I would like to worth with Patrice Chereau, who made Queen Margot.”

“Life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, so let's all get wasted and have the time of our lives.”