Bernard Pivot Quotes
They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties.
Quotes to Explore
-
Not everybody fantasizes about robbing a bank, but I think most people have that fantasy of being in a high speed chase.
-
Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
-
To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
-
I've always been a person who's been true to myself and true to others, and I'm not afraid to be honest.
-
Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
-
I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
-
Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
-
History's a resource.
-
In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
-
I met Bon Jovi on the way to Washington, D.C. I think I called him Jon Jovi. Ugghhhh. I just smiled and pretended it didn't happen. I love him and his wife; they're so sweet. I was very nervous.
-
I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.
-
In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.
-
I don't feel comfortable making empty music.
-
When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have.
-
Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
-
I was the only Christian on the cast, but that was cool because we all respected each others talent and mostly they respected me a lot even though I was the only Christian.
-
Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted to rebel against what I considered to be such old fashioned fare.
-
Out-marriage is an issue religious groups have been wrestling with for some time. Of course men and women fall in love. Of course it's not always convenient to their respective cultural and spiritual norms.
-
The thing about collaborators is that you don’t know you are one whereas as a member of the resistance, you do. In WWII, the worst cases of collaboration weren’t among the real collaborators, that official militia, but among the people at large, who were collaborators without knowing it, by a sort of laxity, an apathy.
-
We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.
-
I had one date in high school - that was it, and he didn't ask me out again, because I was taller than everybody. I was very gangly and awkward, and I wore weird clothes that I made.
-
People will turn to you, follow you, support you only as long as they are confident that you are doing your best.
-
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
-
They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties.
