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I know that if I perform at a really high level, we're going to have a better chance to win. — Pau Gasol

We must not touch our idols; the gilt sticks to our fingers. — Gustave Flaubert

I wrote the first draft of 'Madame Bovary' without studying the previous translations, although I gathered them and took the occasional peek. — Lydia Davis

Boxing is not for killing each other. — Manny Pacquiao

I would love to learn how to air kiss non-awkwardly. — Ned Beauman

At nose tackle, you don't have to run that much. — Bob McNair

I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform. — Jack Kingston

The one who looks at me is seeing the one who sent me. - John 12:45 niv — Gary Chapman

I don't see myself as offending people. — Jimmy Carr

One must not give way altogether, and, because others have died, want to die too. You must pull yourself together, Monsieur Bovary. It will pass away. — Anonymous

Madame Bovary is the sexiest book imaginable. The woman's virtually a nyphomaniac but you won't find a vulgar word in the entire thing. — Noel Coward

An interviewer asked me what book I thought best represented the modern American woman. All I could think of to answer was: Madame Bovary. — Joseph McCarthy

You still smell like the best thing I've ever tasted. — Lauren Dane

Lewis was studying literary history with the present and future in mind. — Philip Zaleski

Charles went to kiss her shoulder.
-Leave me alone! she said, you're creasing my dress. — Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary is myself. — Gustave Flaubert

She loved the sea only for its storms, and greenery only when it was scattered among ruins. — Gustave Flaubert

The smooth folds of her dress concealed a tumultuous heart, and her modest lips told nothing of her torment. She was in love. — Gustave Flaubert

I first read 'Madame Bovary' in my teens or early twenties. — Lydia Davis

His warrior's eyes met hers. "You're the reason. My compass home points toward you. — Natasza Waters

Madame Bovary and a flying carpet, they are both untrue in the same way. Somebody made them up. — Salman Rushdie

When I performed the songs in front of an audience at the end of each project and I knew the storytellers were in the crowd listening, that was hard. — Jens Lekman

I tried Botox once. Never again. It made my forehead freeze. — Donny Osmond

On wings of wind came flying all abroad. — Alexander Pope

But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No. — David Mitchell