Pierre Corneille Quotes

When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.

Pierre Corneille

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• I love to clean my ears. I've heard that you're not supposed to do it every day, but I throw caution to the wind for some quality time with a strong Q-Tip.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Time
  • Love
  • Strong

• I get tired of stories that keep going and going and never get anywhere. It's like a promise that's never fulfilled. Stories need endings. Otherwise, they aren't really stories. Just pages.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • Tired
  • Promise
  • Need

• Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Better
  • Excellence
  • Striving

• My friends and I were wild and we liked to joy-ride.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Friends
  • Joy
  • WIld

• 'Breathe In' was such a big deal for me. It was my first anything. Before that, I was going through 'Backstage Magazine' and applying for student films.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Me
  • First
  • Deal

• I don't need anyone to look after me financially and, while it's hard to trust that a man loves you for the right reasons, you have to take a leap of faith.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Man
  • Faith
  • Trust

• Nobody can tell me where I can and can't go.

  

  Kanye West
  • Me
  • Tell
  • Nobody

• I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Work
  • Think
  • Artist

• The reason we all need a mutton alert, which needs constant testing, like smoke alarms, is because there is really no such thing as age-appropriate dressing any longer, as I know because my wardrobe is interchangeable with my daughter's.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Age
  • Know
  • Daughter

• Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Always
  • Suffering
  • Neurosis

• To me, I was right from the beginning, because it's my right as an American to speak up and question our president, have my point of view, have my opinion, question what I want to question, and say what I want to say about our government.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Up
  • American
  • Question

• I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Me
  • Justice
  • Politics

• New York is a city where people are ambitious. They want things.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • People
  • City
  • New York

• I don't read for plot, a story 'about' this or that. There must be some kind of philosophical depth rendered into the language, something happening.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Kind
  • Language
  • Story

• I didn't think of 'Thelma and Louise' as a feminist movie.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Feminist

• Hempseed produces no observable high for humans or birds.

  

  Jack Herer
  • High
  • Birds
  • Produces

• I guess I really always wanted to act. When I was seven, I actually had the opportunity to come out to California. I've always really loved playing a part, playing a character and being someone else.

  

  Madison Davenport
  • Character
  • Opportunity
  • California

• Extremism of the right or the left is dangerous.

  

  Irene Dunne

• David and I got cut out the editing process on that. We were able to affect it more than not. We sent in our notes, we were able to see cuts. We weren't allowed to see dailies and we weren't allowed to sit in the editing room and just work.

  

  Bob Odenkirk
  • Work

• While massive datasets may feel very abstract, they are intricately linked to physical place and human culture. And places, like people, have their own individual character and grain.

  

  Kate Crawford
  • People
  • May
  • Character

• Teaching and editing have helped me enormously, and brought wonderful people into my life. When I see an author I'm editing struggling to bring a flash of an idea to the page, or notice a student's hands shaking as they read something they wrote out loud for the first time, it keeps things in perspective. How vulnerable we all are. How hard it can be to open the door.

  

  Hannah Tinti
  • People
  • Struggle
  • Perspective

• Who can now deny the loss of natural light, of skin tones, of real place, and common but precious things in our movies, to be replaced by the gorgeous imagery of things that have never been and never will be? The most special effect in movies is always the human face when its mind is being changed.

  

  Edward Jay Epstein
  • Light
  • Movies
  • Changed

• Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense and mercy, not guns and a badge.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Power
  • Best
  • Safety

• When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.

  

  Pierre Corneille