The Temple of Diana is in the vicinity of the fountain, which has given rise to the conjecture that ...
MARGUERITE GARDINER Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.
MARGUERITE GARDINER We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers
MARGUERITE GARDINER Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.
MARGUERITE GARDINER Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.
MARGUERITE GARDINER People seem to lose all respect for the past; events succeed each other with such velocity that the ...
MARGUERITE GARDINER The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.
MARGUERITE GARDINER Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.
MARGUERITE GARDINER Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.
MARGUERITE GARDINER When we bring back with us the objects most dear, and find those we left unchanged, we are tempted t...
MARGUERITE GARDINER We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.
MARGUERITE GARDINER Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up te...
MARGUERITE GARDINER Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place rem...
MARGUERITE GARDINER There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
MARGUERITE GARDINER BLESSINGTON Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.
COUNTESS OF (MARGUERITE GARDINER) BLESSINGTON Love-matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a li...
COUNTESS OF (MARGUERITE GARDINER) BLESSINGTON Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.
COUNTESS OF (MARGUERITE GARDINER) BLESSINGTON Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.
STEPHEN GARDINER Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England.
STEPHEN GARDINER What people want, above all, is order.
STEPHEN GARDINER Human requirements are the inspiration for art.
STEPHEN GARDINER It is hardly surprising that the Georgian domestic style emerges as the most remarkable in the world...
STEPHEN GARDINER Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order h...
STEPHEN GARDINER The further forward we go, the further back we have to explore in order to go forward again.
STEPHEN GARDINER The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplifi...
STEPHEN GARDINER Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.
STEPHEN GARDINER In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public bu...
STEPHEN GARDINER It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.
STEPHEN GARDINER The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the...
STEPHEN GARDINER The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.
STEPHEN GARDINER The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with gr...
STEPHEN GARDINER The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form.
STEPHEN GARDINER The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.
STEPHEN GARDINER Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave.
STEPHEN GARDINER The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom...
STEPHEN GARDINER The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside w...
STEPHEN GARDINER The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the livi...
STEPHEN GARDINER The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives muc...
STEPHEN GARDINER The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man.
STEPHEN GARDINER Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.
STEPHEN GARDINER The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilizat...
STEPHEN GARDINER The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.
STEPHEN GARDINER We had 132 rookies here. We expect a lot of them to be back for Vancouver.
ALEX GARDINER As a coach I've never thought in these terms. The world is doing it, more people are becoming profes...
ALEX GARDINER It's going to change for 2010. This is just the tip of the iceberg.
ALEX GARDINER Many of them will be back in 2010. They'll have seen their first Games and they'll be able to perfor...
ALEX GARDINER If we want to keep our best athletes involved then there should be some incentive like every other s...
ALEX GARDINER It tells us what it's going to be like in 2010.
ALEX GARDINER The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural conc...
STEPHEN GARDINER The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composit...
STEPHEN GARDINER The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel...
STEPHEN GARDINER I think that's the real issue because that's what they wanted [trace data] for and that's exactly wh...
RICHARD GARDINER The female customer is used to a much higher level of detail and much more aesthetic.
HARLAN GARDINER There was a 28-year-old male and there were no signs of trauma. So we didn't know what he had died f...
RON GARDINER In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had...
STEPHEN GARDINER It now appears that the last thing many human rights groups really wanted was a thoroughly reformed ...
NILE GARDINER That assumes that trace data is meaningful in indicating that [firearms] dealers are involved in sel...
RICHARD GARDINER Even if there were straw sales, straw man sales being made from dealers, that doesn't prove that the...
RICHARD GARDINER The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious cris...
STEPHEN GARDINER Specific design needs to come into play for the female golfer. For example, women's golf clubs are a...
HARLAN GARDINER I took it as a challenge. For us, the move to address the (Girl) market directly, head-on, really co...
HARLAN GARDINER There's a much higher level of organization in our Girl line.
HARLAN GARDINER For someone to have me in junior high to pick me, that was quite an honor,
EVELYN GARDINER You need to shock them back every once in a while, ... And so I do.
EVELYN GARDINER They can hear me once in a while,
EVELYN GARDINER It's a little family, ... We take care of our kids.
EVELYN GARDINER We feel compelled to maintain that,
EVELYN GARDINER helping kids reach their potential.
EVELYN GARDINER Even though it may seem like there have been gains in Iraq's power supply, those gains are not relia...
LAURA GARDINER My hopes for this fast are simply that many conversations will be sparked and that people will stop ...
LAURA GARDINER The council is in some ways worse than what we had before, because it lends a veneer of improvement ...
NILE GARDINER We're going to go after them by doing the same things we've talked about all year. And that's tighte...
SCOTT GARDINER We let that one go. We had them. We stopped moving our feet in the third and let them back in.
SCOTT GARDINER If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know...
MARGUERITE YOUNG Don’t be afraid anymore. Not of anyone. Not of anything. Nothing. Ever again. Listen to me: not ev...
MARGUERITE DURAS A being afire with life cannot foresee death; in fact, by each of his deeds he denies that death exi...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prov...
MARGUERITE DURAS The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask me,...
MARGUERITE DURAS You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Oth...
MARGUERITE DURAS Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, before everything e...
MARGUERITE DURAS The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they ...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power ...
MARGUERITE DURAS Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself ...
MARGUERITE DURAS Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack...
MARGUERITE DURAS When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a wo...
MARGUERITE DURAS I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhood and in all the lives that follow them, the...
MARGUERITE DURAS For that's what a woman, a mother wants -- to teach her children to take an interest in life. She kn...
MARGUERITE DURAS Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a li...
MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.
MARGUERITE DURAS She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity -- and infi...
MARGUERITE DURAS There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON The thing that's between us is fascination, and the fascination resides in our being alike. Whether ...
MARGUERITE DURAS I have come to think that great men are characterized precisely by the extreme position which they t...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it -- can't help trying to interest her neares...
MARGUERITE DURAS A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restr...
MARGUERITE DURAS Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.
MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON Tears fell from my eyes--yes, weak and foolish as it now appears to me, I wept for my departed youth...
MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.
MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner who works and brings it out.
MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature...
MARGUERITE DURAS Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely u...
MARGUERITE DURAS The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.
MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON To free the mind from the habit of competition, we must see in detail the process by which the mind ...
MARGUERITE BEECHER Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesn't desire the man offering himself to her. It's the...
MARGUERITE DURAS Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely...
MARGUERITE DURAS I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, th...
MARGUERITE DURAS Sometimes your gaze alone scares me. Sometimes I've never seen you before. I no longer know what you...
MARGUERITE DURAS Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?
MARGUERITE YOUNG Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the acce...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR You were up at 5 o'clock in the morning, and then you'd ride in a caravan, because we didn&#...
MARGUERITE MOREAU The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her...
MARGUERITE DURAS Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.
MARGUERITE DURAS I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but...
MARGUERITE YOUNG Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the acce...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR Mountains appear more lofty, the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this...
MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON The best way to fill time is to waste it.
MARGUERITE DURAS ...as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened.
MARGUERITE DURAS It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect...
MARGUERITE DURAS It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prov...
MARGUERITE DURAS It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
MARGUERITE DURAS To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come ...
MARGUERITE DURAS Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesn't desire the man offering himself to her. It's th...
MARGUERITE DURAS You'll never get that on a regular tour. We go to the small places the mass hordes don't go, and we ...
MARGUERITE DALIANES All creatures are flawed, but out of the flaw may come the universe.
MARGUERITE YOUNG The asexual angel, neither male nor female... unable to live without her mask of illusions... showed...
MARGUERITE YOUNG Every invalid is a prisoner
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR I'm most interested in working and learning from different people and telling good stories.
MARGUERITE MOREAU Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces...
MARGUERITE DURAS Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosop...
MARGUERITE YOUNG Every invalid is a prisoner.
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR Miramax can buy a small independent movie that isn't very good, but because it has great relatio...
MARGUERITE MOREAU You think of outside your room, of the streets of the town, the lonely little squares over by the st...
MARGUERITE DURAS Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.
MARGUERITE DURAS All forms of dire poverty and brutality were things to forbid as insults to the fair body of mankind...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR Men like women who write, even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.
MARGUERITE DURAS I was only the more anxious to make Jerusalem a city like the others, where several races and severa...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR I got to work with Gene Hackman for six weeks, side by side, 12 hours a day.
MARGUERITE MOREAU Theologians and other clerks,
You won't understand this book,
-- However bright your wit...
MARGUERITE PORETE [*] Memoirs of Hadrian ... Catastrophe and ruin will come; disorder will triumph, but order will too...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR Leaving behind books is even more beautiful - there are far too many children.
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile th...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily.
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the othe...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory ...
MARGUERITE DURAS The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest...
MARGUERITE DURAS The best way to fill time is to waste it
MARGUERITE DURAS Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely u...
MARGUERITE DURAS She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity - and infid...
MARGUERITE DURAS There's an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren't as important...
MARGUERITE MOREAU Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernic...
MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually...
MARGUERITE YOUNG Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolute...
MARGUERITE DURAS Reason, you'll always be half-blind.
MARGUERITE PORETE Don't blindly follow any leader.
MARGUERITE YOUNG If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley, you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the mos...
MARGUERITE YOUNG Analyzing anything negative that affects their score and aggressively disputing anything erroneous, ...
MARGUERITE FISCHER All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is tha...
MARGUERITE YOUNG My first attempt to write about Robert Owen was in the form of poetry. Then I turned it into a blank...
MARGUERITE YOUNG I think that the style is the writing, a beautiful sense of style. And if you don't have it, it does...
MARGUERITE YOUNG Like Kay Boyle, whose work I'm wild about, I could have married, written a book with every baby, a b...
MARGUERITE YOUNG When the dream came into being, I always pursued it.
MARGUERITE YOUNG I bear a heavy gift.
MARGUERITE YOUNG Life has no beginning, middle or end.
MARGUERITE YOUNG The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything ...
MARGUERITE YOUNG Apenas llegado a Sharax, el fatigado emperador había ido a sentarse a la orilla del mar, frente a l...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR I had read the histories of mountain climbers, of suffragette captains, of travelers to the Middle E...
MARGUERITE YOUNG The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask me,...
MARGUERITE DURAS Muy pronto en mi vida fue demasiado tarde.
MARGUERITE DURAS I think about you. But I don't say it anymore.
MARGUERITE DURAS Suddenly, all at once, she knows, knows that he doesn't understand her, that he never will, that he ...
MARGUERITE DURAS Il segreto più profondo di Olimpia è racchiuso in quest'unica nota cristallina: lottare è un gioc...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of ...
MARGUERITE YOUNG The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my firs...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR The holidays are such a hectic time. Staying home on New Year's Eve is a way to begin the New Year m...
MARGUERITE ADELMAN Започнах да пиша в обкръжение, което твърде силно ме тл...
MARGUERITE DURAS I love vampire movies. I think they are sexy.
MARGUERITE MOREAU A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death...
MARGUERITE YOUNG In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all t...
MARGUERITE DURAS Passion such as hers is all consent, asking little in return. I had merely to enter a room where she...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to negl...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR El amor es un castigo. Somos castigados por no haber podido quedarnos solos.
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR Nunca hay centro. Ni camino, ni línea. Hay vastos pasajes donde se insinúa que alguien hubo. No es...
MARGUERITE DURAS Los besos en el cuerpo hacen llorar. Diríase que consuelan.
MARGUERITE DURAS I know it's not clothes that make women beautiful or otherwise, nor beauty care, nor expensive cream...
MARGUERITE DURAS Pero los escritores mienten, aun los más sinceros. Los menos hábiles, carentes de palabras y frase...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized.
MARGUERITE YOUNG When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in ...
MARGUERITE DURAS When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing d...
MARGUERITE DURAS Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR This city belongs to ghosts, to murderers, to sleepwalkers. Where are you, in what bed, in what drea...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR And modern houses don't have passages, either, for children to play and run about in, and for dogs, ...
MARGUERITE DURAS UND suggests dramatic changes quickly.
MARGUERITE COTTO It did not seem realistic to do this amount of research into the program and not tell people that wa...
MARGUERITE COTTO We tend to think of program closure as a last resort.
MARGUERITE COTTO We have worked very hard to reduce expenses through all the units.
MARGUERITE COTTO Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits
MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON It was a very elegant line, the Royal Viking.
MARGUERITE DALIANES I haven't counted how many times I've gone. Easily 40 or so times.
MARGUERITE DALIANES This young man-whether he's my son or a stranger-repeatedly declares, "I didn't do it, I didn't do i...
MARGUERITE OSWALD Mr Johnson should remember that I am not just anyone and that he is only president of the United Sta...
MARGUERITE OSWALD