Quotes
Authors
Rachel
"From the foot of the pyramids I contemplate twenty centuries, buried in the sand. ... I came here to hold on to fleeting life, and I see all about me only death. ... I write this, not quite knowing what I'm saying, but I dry the ink with the dust of Egyptian queens." --
Rachel
#Queens Quotes
#Writing Quotes
#Dust Quotes
“I do not believe there is any royal road to success as an athlete any more than there is to others in everyday life.”
“We must never pretend appreciation, but if we feel it, then we must express it”
“When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.”
“I've made compromises to survive in life, and to be able to do what I want to do. But, once anything has been put on screen, I've never made a compromise.”
“I was also just strong and quick - it wasn't hard for me to learn how to dance. I was a natural at it.”
“Oh, but a real princess would know that hard work ennobles the soul,' Rose objected. 'That would be one of the signs.”
“You must find a boy your own age. Someone mild and beautiful to be your lover. Someone who will tremble for your touch, offer you a marguerite by its long stem with his eyes lowered. Someone whose fingers are a poem.”
“But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful.”
