Pierre Corneille Quotes

A first impulse was never a crime.

Pierre Corneille

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• Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Time
  • Road
  • Path

• I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Fashion

• I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Feeling
  • Running
  • Far

• I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • True
  • Funny
  • Sexy

• I was the first businessman to say, 'You should give tax benefit to only small companies. You should say your profits are exempt to a limit of Rs. 50 crore or so, but beyond that, you should pay taxes.' I have been arguing with successive finance ministers on this.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Small
  • Taxes
  • Finance

• We don't want to abandon any of the market we have now. We just want to gain new market.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Want
  • New
  • Now

• I can't do any competitive sport myself!

  

  Samantha Cameron
  • Myself
  • Competitive
  • Any

• Hanson plays music that is very much a part of everything.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Music
  • Everything
  • Very

• I got to be good friends with Scott Hamilton.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Good Friends

• My sleep is very important, and I have to have at least eight hours every night in order to function properly the next day. Unfortunately, flying through several time zones makes me disorientated, and it takes several days to readjust.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Time
  • Important
  • Night

• I was a pilot and flying hang gliders, paragliders, aerobatics airplanes, and then I discovered skydiving. Free fall. Free. With nothing around you, just a parachute on your back. And you go down. But you don't feel like you're going down. Total freedom.

  

  Yves Rossy
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Fall

• Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Good
  • Reading
  • Religious

• 'Life Is Good' represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • Good
  • Beautiful

• To represent a country, qualify for the World Cup, and get a team to perform at the right moment in time would be great honour for me.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• Our model citizen is a sophisticate who before puberty understands how to produce a baby, but who at the age of thirty will not know how to produce a potato.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Age
  • Baby
  • Model

• I got rhythm,I got music,I got my manWho could ask for anything more?

  

  Ira Gershwin
  • Music

• Living with a god is not what it's cracked up to be. They think their women should be grateful just to have them around.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Up
  • God
  • Women

• It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Death
  • Patience

• The chief character in this narrative is the Caribbean Sea, one of the world's most alluring bodies of water, a rare gem among the oceans, defined by the islands that form a chain of lovely jewels to the north and east.

  

  James A. Michener
  • World
  • Character
  • Water

• I swore I'd be done, and that would be the end of it. And now I am. There isn't a single place left on-world that isn't part of the Bitchun Society. There isn't a single thing left that I want any part of.

  

  Cory Doctorow
  • World
  • Done
  • Society

• The useful may be trusted to further itself, for many produce it and no one can do without it; but the beautiful must be specially encouraged, for few can present it, while yet all have need of it.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Beautiful
  • Need
  • Trusted

• I do sport at the gym a few times a week, but I hate it. Work is my only remedy. I feel so twisted and horrible in the morning, but then I go to the office and I start feeling better. Work is my Tylenol. Extra-strength.

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • Work
  • Feeling
  • Hate

• If you want to experiment, do something temporary.

  

  Andy Garcia

• A first impulse was never a crime.

  

  Pierre Corneille