Andre Dupointe Quotes

Don't worry kitties. There's plenty of Daddy to go around. ~ Sai Marie Johnson

As far as he was concerned, all women wanted all men. And vice versa. What stood in the way between a man and a woman at Cafe Algiers was a few chairs, a table, maybe a door
material distance. All a man needed was the will and above all the patience to wait out a woman's scruples or help her brush them aside. As in a game of penny poker, he explained, all that matters was simply the will to keep raising the pot by a single penny each time; a single penny, not two; a single penny was easy, you wouldn't even feel it; but you had to wait for her to raise you by a penny as well, which is when you'd raise her by another, she by yet another, and so on. Seduction was not pushing people into doing things they did not wish to do. Seduction was just keeping the pennies coming. ~ Andre Aciman

I smiled right away, because I caught his attempt to backpedal, which instantly brought complicit smiles to our faces, like a passionate wet kiss in the midst of a conversation between two indviduals who, without thinking, had reached for each other's lips through the scorching red desert both had intentionally placed between them so as not to grope for each other's nakedness. ~ Andre Aciman

I lived in the dark so as not to be blinded when darkness came. Rehearse the pain to dull the pain. Homeopathically. ~ Andre Aciman

Nobody will outwork, out-train or out-will me ! ~ Andre Bramble

Some socialist movements in Egypt, Tunisia and Bahrain, for instance, were genuine. I was making films about the so-called Arab Spring, and I'm well aware of how complex the situation really was. But it goes without saying is that the West immediately infiltrated and 'derailed' the revolutions, turning them into what you have described. ~ Andre Vltchek

Past and future monopolize the poet's sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediate spectacle. These two philtres become utterly clear the moment one stops being hypnotized by the cloudy precipitate constituted by the world of today. ~ Andre Breton

Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature. ~ Andre Gide

I met a gypsy and she hipped me to some life game,
To stimulate, then activate the left and right brain.
Said, 'Baby boy, you only funky as your last cut.
You focus on the past, your ass'll be a has-what.'
That's one to live by, or either that's one to die to. ~ Andre Benjamin

Italian cinema is assuredly the only one to salvage, from within the very period it depicts a revolutionary humanism. ~ Andre Bazin

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman. ~ Andre Malraux

The secret seemed to me much more mysterious than that; it was the secret, I thought, of one who had known death; for I moved a stranger among ordinary people, like a man who has risen from the grave, and at first I merely felt rather painfully out of my element; but soon I became aware of a very different feeling.
Was it pride now? Perhaps; but at any rate there was no trace of vanity mixed with it. It was rather, for the first time, the consciousness of my own worth. What separated me - distinguished me - from other people was crucial; what no one said, what no one could say but myself, that was my task to say. ~ Andre Gide

I can see it, hear it, feel it, taste it - but I can never be on the inside of it with you. I cannot even be sure whether I really know what it is like. Is it 'like' my own? Or incomparable? Just as I can never know if what you see at any given moment is exactly the same as what I see. We look at a colour. We both call it red. But it is only because we have been taught to call it by that name. There is no guarantee - not ever - that we see it in the same way, that your red is my red. ~ Andre Brink

Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else. ~ Andre Gide

New York is dead. It's too expensive. ~ Carl Andre

Do understand: Chinese people are brilliant; the West cannot fool them. ~ Andre Vltchek

On ne découvre pas de terre nouvelle sans consentir à perdre de vue, d'abord et longtemps, tout rivage.

(One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.) ~ Andre Gide

Or are "being" and "having" thoroughly inaccurate verbs in the twisted skein of desire, where having someone's body to touch and being that someone we're longing to touch are one and the same, just opposite banks on a river that passes from us to them, back to us and over to them again in this perpetual circuit where the chambers of the heart, like the trapdoors of desire, and the wormholes of time, and the false-bottomed drawer we call identity share a beguiling logic according to which the shortest distance between real life and the life unlived, between who we are and what we want, is a twisted staircase designed with the impish cruelty of M. C. Escher. ~ Andre Aciman

I'm a fan of making things that I've seen but couldn't purchase, or things I bought that didn't fit the way I like. ~ Andre Benjamin

If there is a showdown, two enormous nations, Russia and China, standing side-by-side, will defeat fascism! ~ Andre Vltchek

There are so many things out there now like these 30-minute workouts. I don't know if they work, but a lot of people have jobs and they don't have time to go to the gym. They can do those little 30-minute workouts they see on TV, or get one of those little portable gyms for their house. I think that's a good start. ~ Andre Reed

Losing to Pete has caused me enormous pain, but in the long run it's also made me more resilient. If I'd beaten Pete more often, or if he'd come along in a different generation, I'd have a better record, and I might go down as a better player, but I'd be less. ~ Andre Agassi

I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow. ~ Andre Gide

How historians explain time is one thing, but how we live time is quite another. ~ Andre Aciman

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel. ~ Andre Maurois

Tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love - the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature. ~ Andre Agassi

I was the black sheep of the family, and my mother never really understood me. ~ Andre Rieu

Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it. ~ Andre Gide

The pawn is the soul of chess. ~ Francois-Andre Danican Philidor

The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to humanity than would have been the loss of those for whom he is sacrificing himself. But in his abnegation lies the secret of his grandeur. ~ Andre Gide

How would one tell a story about happiness? One can only tell of the origins of happiness and its destruction. ~ Andre Gide

He knew that if neither of us sought out the other it was only because we had never really parted and that, regardless of where we were, who we were with, and whatever stood in our way, all he needed when the time was right was simply to come and find me. ~ Andre Aciman

There's something about taking the cart back instead of leaving it in the parking lot ... It's significant ... Because somebody has to take them in ... And if you know that, and you do it for that one guy, you do something else. You join the world ... You move out of your isolation and become universal. ~ Andre Dubus

My works have always been unjoined. People were always making variations of my works, and I just said, "I don't want to know." You can't put limits on those pieces. You can't be there all of the time when they're installed. ~ Carl Andre

I have a great many shortcomings, but writing for something on time has never bothered me. ~ Andre Previn

Her heart had been lost for five years looking for a rhythm that only he could play. ~ Bella Andre

But then you're a bit like me: some people may be brokenhearted not because they've been hurt but because they've never found someone who mattered enough to hurt them. ~ Andre Aciman

Life never ceases. Life is an overflowing source, and death is only an obscure effect of illusions. ~ Andre Luiz Moreira

I gazed at myself, no longer with shame, but with joy. I felt, if not exactly strong, then at least potentially so, harmonious, sensuous, almost beautiful. ~ Andre Gide

Reality is not art, but a realist art is one that can create an integral aesthetic of reality. ~ Andre Bazin

I stand and feel an overpowering urge to forgive, because I realize that my father can't help himself, that he never could help himself, any more than he could understand himself. ~ Andre Agassi

For intelligent people, action often means escape from thought, but it is a reasonable and a wise escape. ~ Andre Maurois

My first fight was a little weasel from American called Andre Dirrell. I say that because he runs and holds, and I hope Abraham bangs him out. ~ Carl Froch

I've learned that I'm most powerful when I'm doing my art. ~ Andre Benjamin

Time and space float and dissolve like sugar in wine. You are already dead, even though you haven't yet been born. You're nothing but a drop on the tip of your father's crooked cod, a sigh in your mother's sore throat. And yet the worms are standing in line, waiting for their feast to fester. Why should you dread your death? ~ Andre Solnikkar

Snow. As ever the silent snow. It hems you in, lifts your spirit, and as you soar awhile it lets you down for being the meaningless ashen powder that it is. ~ Andre Aciman

Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain. ~ Andre Gide