#ali

Dès que Séraphine l'a laissé seul, Gontran se jette à genoux au pied du lit ; il enfonce son front dans les draps, mais ne parvient pas à pleurer ; aucun élan ne soulève son cœur. Ses yeux désespérément restent secs. Alors il se relève. Il regarde ce visage impassible. Il voudrait, en ce moment solennel, éprouver je ne sais quoi de sublime et de rare, écouter une communication de l'au-delà, lancer sa pensée dans des régions éthérées,suprasensibles - mais elle reste accrochée, sa pensée, au ras du sol. Il regarde les mains exsangues du mort, et se demande combien de temps encore les ongles continueront de pousser. ↗

— André Gide

#communication

Numbers still gave Astrid pleasure. That was the great thing about numbers: it required no faith to believe that two plus two equaled four. And math never, ever condemned you for your thoughts and desires. ↗

— Michael Grant

#fear #gone #math #michael-grant #numbers

Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#doctrines #ideas #perfection #totalitarian

We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy. ↗

— Bob Taft

#education #ensure #higher #higher education #must

We made it known that we were trying to show the reality of France. People think of Paris as the city of love or the city of light, but where you got love you got hate, where you got light you got darkness. ↗

— Mathieu Kassovitz

#darkness #france #got #hate #known

I don't think I'm very ambitious at all. But I seem to play people who have that quality. ↗

— Catherine Keener

#i #lay people #people #play #quality

I feel it's the conscious mind that messes things up. The conscious mind is constantly telling you, this might happen or that might happen, even before it has happened. Your conscious mind tells you the next ball might be a out-swinger, but when it's coming at you you realize it's an in-swinger... so literally, you've played two balls. ↗

— Sachin Tendulkar

#balls #before #coming #conscious #conscious mind

I have my mother who is an Irish-Italian, and my father who is African, so I have the taste buds of an Italian and the spice of an African. ↗

— Alicia Keys

#buds #father #i #italian #mother

Muhammad Ali - he was a magnificent fighter and he was an icon... Every head must bow, every knee must bend, every tongue must confess, thou art the greatest, the greatest of all time, Muhammad, Muhammad Ali. ↗

— Don King

#art #bend #bow #confess #every

And if I have a strong point, it's that I like to believe it's not cheap or schmaltzy sentimentality. ↗

— Toots Thielemans

#cheap #i #like #point #sentimentality