Boris Vian Quotes

The three great moments of my life had to be the concerts of Ellington in 1938, Dizzy in '48, and Ella in '52.

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• I've never been a partier.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Never
  • Been

• I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Up
  • Feel
  • Drama

• In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.

  

  Karen Maitland
  • Animals
  • London
  • Elephant

• The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Good
  • Important
  • Family

• The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Work
  • Environment
  • Something

• I love my sleep.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Love
  • Sleep
  • I Love

• It drives me crazy when your parents try to read your mind. It's even worse when they try to read your mail.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Mind
  • Parents
  • Crazy

• Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • People
  • Great
  • Always

• I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Forever

• I'm still learning how to do things - like lining my eyes? Forget it.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Eyes
  • Learning
  • Forget

• To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Light
  • Shadow
  • Candle

• The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Truth
  • Simple
  • Said

• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Music
  • Always
  • Dresses

• Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Giving
  • Attention
  • Trump

• I prayed every day of my life, and that was instilled in me as a kid, and as I've gotten older, that's just matured in me.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Life
  • Day
  • My Life

• Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Better
  • Red
  • Argument

• We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.'

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Real

• I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I'll watch myself back on 'Xtra Factor' and want to do it again because of a few hiccups.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Back

• The body is an actor's tool, like the face, malleable. I never thought that being naked was immoral or outrageous.

  

  Emmanuelle Beart

• Before the 'Fast & Furious' promo in Manila, I went on a vacation in the Philippines 10 years earlier. I loved it. My 'Miss Saigon' friends showed me around.

  

  Luke Evans
  • Friends
  • Vacation

• A great sense of morality was instilled in me through my upbringing in the Catholic faith - particularly because my father is a moral theologian. And morality is something I believe exists separate from faith, as an intrinsic human quality that one should aspire to understand and participate in.

  

  David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Father

• The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Power
  • Wisdom
  • Successful

• I never saw war, so that is still my vision of manhood: Unitas standing courageously in the pocket, his left arm flung out in a diagonal to the upper deck, his right cocked for the business of passing, down amidst the mortals. Lock and load.

  

  Frank Deford
  • Business
  • War
  • Vision

• The three great moments of my life had to be the concerts of Ellington in 1938, Dizzy in '48, and Ella in '52.

  

  Boris Vian
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