Pierre Beaumarchais Quotes

Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at all seasons, madam: that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals.

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• We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.

  

  Arthur Daniel Miller
  • Think
  • Physical
  • Heritage

• America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • America
  • Political
  • City

• This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.

  

  Fernand Leger
  • Truth
  • Understanding
  • Painting

• To oppose something is to maintain it.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Something
  • Maintain
  • Oppose

• Some people call it the 'Al Jazeera spirit' - courage, re-thinking authority, giving a voice to the voiceless. We have never been favored by the authority. The human being is the center of our editorial policy. We are not a TV station that rushes after stars, big names, press conferences, hand-shake journalism.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Giving

• As a writer, a blank page will humble the hell out of you. It always does, and it always will.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Humble
  • Hell
  • Page

• Frances Conroy - brilliant, brilliant actress.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Brilliant
  • Actress

• All of his saves have come in relief appearances.

  

  Ralph Kiner
  • Come
  • Relief
  • Appearances

• Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is no other such event in Western history.

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • History
  • Revolution
  • Rose

• A lot of girls think they have to choose between being the smart geeky type or the beautiful bimbo.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Think
  • Beautiful
  • Smart

• When I left school, I never wondered whether my apartment in New York was vulnerable to storm surges, but my three daughters have to consider the realities of extreme weather and how it may destabilize communities around the globe.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • School
  • May
  • New

• I started skydiving because I loved the idea of freedom.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Freedom
  • Idea
  • Loved

• We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It's just beginning. When I think of the possibilities, it makes me smile.

  

  Barry White
  • Music
  • Beginning
  • Baby

• I can easily come up with ten really iconic stories/trade paperbacks for Superman, Batman, others... name me ten equally big, iconic Wonder Woman stories. Much harder. That ain't the character's fault, that isn't sexism, that's just not servicing the character.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Up
  • Character
  • Woman

• A lot of times, in the beginning of my career, I put pressure on myself just because I wanted to perform so well. I just wanted to be perfect.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Career
  • Perfect
  • Myself

• Pornography does not cause rape or violence, which predate pornography by thousands of years. Rape and violence occur not because of patriarchal conditioning but because of the opposite, a breakdown of social controls.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Violence

• ἐν παντὶ πράγει δ᾽ ἔσθ᾽ ὁμιλίας κακῆςκάκιον οὐδέν

  

  Aeschylus

• I didn't know if I was going to be drafted, period. I remember sitting there and just praying that whatever God has for me to happen, and I didn't get any calls from anybody else the whole round. And then I got a call from New England five hours after the draft started.

  

  Benjamin Watson
  • God
  • Remember
  • Period

• The only time I'll use a microwave is to warm up a cup of coffee I've left too long before drinking.

  

  Mary Berry
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• I was six when I saw that everything was God, and my hair stood up, and all, Teddy said. It was on a Sunday, I remember. My sister was a tiny child then, and she was drinking her milk, and all of a sudden I saw that she was God and the milk was God. I mean, all she was doing was pouring God into God, if you know what I mean.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Up
  • God
  • She

• I'm just an obnoxious guy who can make it appear charming, that's what they pay me to do.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Charming
  • Obnoxious guy

• Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at all seasons, madam: that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals.

  

  Pierre Beaumarchais
  • Drinking