Octave Mirbeau Quotes

Great ladies ... are like the best sauces -- it is better not to know how they are made.

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• When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
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  • Like
  • Hands

• Right when 'High School Musical' was taking off, one of my little cousins called and was really excited to tell me there was a huge 'I Hate Zac Efron' club at her school. I'm sure they're doing great. More power to them.

  

  Zac Efron
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  • School
  • Power

• I have a great team at WME.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Great
  • Team
  • Great Team

• When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, inner life in which freedom lives. In which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

  

  Ralph Bellamy
  • Life
  • Great
  • Country

• We're more interested in someone writing a really great answer that's going to be read by thousands or tens of thousands of people over the next few years as it stays on Quora and as it gets distributed on the Internet.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• In the 1970s and 1980s, I got to do some great work. The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.

  

  Sally Field
  • Work
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Book
  • Like
  • Princess

• You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end.

  

  Karel Capek
  • World
  • Great
  • Age

• I feel like I'm a secondary artist, a kind of a conduit for the writer, and if it's a good writer, then I have a great road map.

  

  Mamie Gummer
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  • Road

• I think great artists have no time to waste with having disproportionate egos and irrational requests. They're too focused on their work to actually lose themselves in hysterical spirals where they become monsters or tyrants.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• I couldn't be a royal. It's like living in a supersonic goldfish bowl.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Like
  • Living
  • Royal

• Like the United Nations, there is something inspirational about New York as a great melting pot of different cultures and traditions. And if this is the city that never sleeps, the United Nations works tirelessly, around the clock around the world.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • Great
  • Different

• Many people who want to be great aren't willing to do the work to make it possible!

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.

  

  Rachel Dratch
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  • Dream
  • Childhood

• Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

  

  Barbara Johnson
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• I taught a master class in film in France, and that was a great experience because I got a chance to study the French film culture and the French film history, so to add... just to expand myself just personally and professionally was really helpful.

  

  F. Gary Gray
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  • Experience
  • History

• I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.

  

  Nanci Griffith
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  • Feel
  • I Feel Like

• For your information, I would like to ask a question.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Question
  • Like
  • Information

• I want to stress again that human rights are not peripheral to the foreign policy of the United States. Our pursuit of human rights is part of a broad effort to use our great power and our tremendous influence in the service of creating a better world, a world in which human beings can live in peace, in freedom, and with their basic needs adequately met.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • World
  • Great
  • Live

• All the science fiction I loved as a kid was holding up a mirror to society and warning us about the need for course correction.

  

  Laeta Kalogridis
  • Up
  • Society
  • Science

• The United States and our allies across the world are working every day to fight terrorism. We must continue those efforts, and we must promote peace and freedom.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Peace

• Putting on weight for me is really, really hard. If I stop lifting, or if I stop eating, I get skinny really quick.

  

  Christopher Gorham
  • Stop
  • Lifting

• Political union means transferring the prerogatives of national legislatures to the European parliament, which would then decide how to structure Europe's fiscal, banking, and monetary union.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Political
  • Decide
  • Banking

• Great ladies ... are like the best sauces -- it is better not to know how they are made.

  

  Octave Mirbeau
  • Great
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  • Ladies