Jacques Yves Cousteau Quotes

I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

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• When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Better
  • Average
  • Dressed

• When I was younger, I just put off the writing until later in the day, but now I write early every morning to get it done. I can only write for a few hours at a time; after that, my attention fades.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Done

• I get most of my inspiration from older records. Most of the records that I listen to were probably made before I was born, and I was born in the mid-'70s. I don't know why, exactly, I'm drawn to those sounds.

  

  M. Ward
  • Inspiration
  • Records
  • Sounds

• We are a studying nation. Scholarship from science is important to the whole world and those people need to be able to be safe and secure in what they do.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• I trust work, directors - I don't live in fear. All good experiences have come from trusting the universe. There is no other way to live or love. Otherwise, you create your own prison.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Good
  • Work
  • Live

• The importance of creativity in our country is greatly misunderstood.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Country
  • Creativity

• I'd love to play at Wembley. It's special for Barca - and for everyone in football.

  

  Xavi
  • Love
  • Play
  • Football

• I just want to prove that I am really good at something. And I haven't quite done that yet - at least not to myself. I know I could ride so much better, with more ease, with more finesse. I feel I'm nowhere near as good as I should be.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Prove
  • Ride
  • Ease

• A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.

  

  Edmund Barton
  • People
  • Great
  • Education

• I keep a very low profile in Switzerland. There are only about 2,000 people in the village I live in, so it's a quiet town.

  

  Adam Derek Scott
  • People
  • Live
  • Village

• All fundamentalist movements… whether they're Jewish, Christian or Muslim or Buddhist, all begin as an intra-religious debate, an intra-religious struggle. Then, at a later stage, fundamentalists sometimes reach out towards a foreign foe and hence the Muslim feeling that American foreign policy … is holding them back.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • American
  • Feeling
  • Christian

• As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.

  

  Orson Scott Card

• Now, many of us in the Labour Party are conservationists - and we all love the red squirrel. But there is one ginger rodent which we never want to see again - Danny Alexander.

  

  Harriet Harman
  • Party
  • Red

• Evenings of paying to be rejected can feel like a male version of date rape.

  

  Warren Farrell

• In the pool halls, the hustlers and the losersI used to watch 'em through the glass.Well I'd stand outside at closing timeJust to watch her walk on past.Unlike all the other ladies, she looked so young and sweet.As she made her way alone down that empty street.Down on Mainstreet.

  

  Bob Seger
  • She
  • Past
  • Alone

• Anybody who tells me I can't use a program because it's not open source, go suck on rms. I'm not interested. 99% of that I run tends to be open source, but that's my choice, dammit.

  

  Linus Torvalds

• A condition of youth, your own importance. The mark you'd make upon the world. But a man learns sooner or later. You take your little niche and make it your own. You ride out the time as best you can.

  

  Colum McCann
  • Time
  • World

• I didn't want to settle or become complacent after winning a major, I wanted to stay hungry. It's easy to do. It's easy to win a big tournament and kind of get a little lazy, so it's been a good motivator for me to work a little harder.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Winning

• A single bomb of this type, carried by boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port, together with some of the surrounding territory.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Type
  • Bomb
  • Port

• I like to start with the first chapter, end with chapter 40. No flashbacks, nothing fancy, just a direct storytelling.

  

  John Grisham

• I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.

  

  Jacques Yves Cousteau