Boris Vian Quotes

I played the trumpet a bit like a porker, I think.

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• If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Country
  • Military
  • Guilty

• I am not saying Russia is not important, but Trump's base is very well defended against that: 'the liberal media is out to get him', 'it's fake news', and all the rest.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Trump
  • Media
  • Fake

• I spend my money on my props and my creations. I'm an inventor.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Money
  • Spend
  • Creations

• Being in a Woody Allen film. I cherish it.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Film
  • Being
  • Cherish

• 'Carousel,' please! I would die to do that.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Die
  • Would
  • Carousel

• I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Fiction
  • Own
  • My Own

• It is a fact that scientists have deposited dye in certain lakes around Orlando and tracked the effluent to Florida Bay. There is a lake near Everglades City, Deep Lake, and large tarpon show up in that lake, 30 miles from the sea.

  

  Randy Wayne White
  • Up
  • City
  • Deep

• Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Good
  • Man
  • Opinion

• You buy a new iPhone, a few months later, another new iPhone comes out, and you get online to buy another one. You can't get enough. You are addicted to Apple.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Enough
  • Apple
  • iPhone

• I shaved the back of my head once and did the asymmetrical hair.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Hair
  • Back
  • Head

• Whether you are a consumer, a hardware maker, a software developer or a provider of cool new services, it's hard to make a move in the American cellphone world without the permission of the companies that own the pipes.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • World
  • American
  • Cool

• The thing I love about Wisconsin is the people. We have such incredible people here. It's fun to recognize the incredible athletes and coaches and sponsors and people we have here tonight. But we also have incredible fans.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • People
  • Fun
  • Fans

• Like it or not, women are always subject to criticism if they show too much feeling in public.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Women
  • Feeling
  • Criticism

• Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Knowledge
  • Opinion

• If we are to create tomorrow's jobs, we can't remain frozen in time in yesterday's tax system.

  

  Bob Taft
  • Time
  • Frozen

• After my final semester at Yale in December of 2013, I made a scary choice. Instead of looking for work - feeling over-read and underweight - that for a few months I would go wherever the wind carried me. I would become a student of the world, and I would eat.

  

  Clemantine Wamariya
  • World
  • Work
  • Feeling

• I'm all about peace. I'm all about unity. I'm all about love.

  

  DJ Khaled
  • Peace
  • Unity

• The year was 1882. The palace was the Luxembourg Palace: the ball, the Senat Bal, held at the beginning of autumn. It was still warm, and so the garden was used as well. I was the soprano. I was Lilliet Berne.

  

  Alexander Chee
  • Beginning
  • Garden
  • Autumn

• Part of what you hear when somebody says something awful to you is like, 'They're right, I look ridiculous, why am I dressed this way, I should go home and change.' For me that voice is always in my head, right around the corner.

  

  Ezra Furman
  • Home
  • Change
  • Voice

• The only way to improve the GOP brand and make good public policy is to fix the process. This requires transforming the way Congress does business.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Good
  • Business
  • Brand

• We've gotten to a point where you can't be a politician and actually say what you're thinking because someone's gonna get offended, and God forbid, like, everyone's so sensitive now, it's ridiculous.

  

  Donald Trump, Jr.
  • God
  • Thinking

• There being no absolute and universal standard of right, terrorism must be held to be wrong in every case.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Terrorism
  • Universal
  • Standard

• I played the trumpet a bit like a porker, I think.

  

  Boris Vian