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.

Pierre Beaumarchais

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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

• 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

• It's rare that you get to play a great role that has an arc.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Great

• Drinking a cup of coffee with your eyes closed isn't a sophisticated task for a person, but it's hard for a robot.

  

  Vijay Kumar
  • Eyes
  • Coffee
  • Drinking

• It is a fit time to go to the drinking, With the skilful men, about art, And a hundred knots, the custom of the country, The shepherd of the districts, support of gates, Like going without a foot to battle.

  

  Taliesin
  • Time
  • Men
  • Country

• I am not drinking now but I cannot guarantee tomorrow.

  

  Kelly McGillis
  • Drinking

• You have the upmost amount of energy because you're not just having a cocktail at the end of the night. You're actually not drinking alcohol and you're keeping your body really clean and it's an amazing feeling to be getting out all the toxins.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Night
  • Feeling
  • Energy

• It appears, accordingly, from the experience of all ages and nations, I believe, that the work done by freemen comes cheaper in the end than that performed by slaves.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Done

• 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