Pierre Corneille Quotes

Le sujet d'une belle tragédie doit n'être pas vraisemblable.

Pierre Corneille

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• The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.

  

  Carla Bley
  • World
  • Music
  • Best

• I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Romantic

• When the motor was completed and tested, we found that it would develop 16 horse power for a few seconds, but that the power rapidly dropped till, at the end of a minute, it was only 12 horse power.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Power
  • End
  • Horse

• We need to do things better, but in a way that makes sense.

  

  Nan Hayworth
  • Way
  • Better
  • Need

• It would be a sad story to get rid of religious belief, national identity, family, and even sexual identity. That's not freedom.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Family
  • Freedom
  • Religious

• With Scarlett Johansson, I always thought she was pretty, but then when I heard her sing, there was just something about her voice that made her really, really attractive to me. And I think she would be fun to hang out with.

  

  Cameron Monaghan
  • She
  • Fun
  • Pretty

• I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Writing
  • Happy
  • Sad

• There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Dream

• One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted. (11 May 1943)

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  • People
  • May
  • Education

• Sometimes, rehearsals are not worth it if you do not have an accurate cast, and that is one of the most difficult parts about a film.

  

  Javier Camara

• While there's life, there's fear.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Life
  • Fear

• If there's a British film in the marketplace that is successful on a worldwide basis - whether it's 'A Room with a View,' 'Four Weddings' or 'The Full Monty' - money follows, and everyone tries to emulate that success.

  

  Eric Fellner
  • Money
  • Success

• I'm trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want to make a difference.

  

  David Friedman
  • World
  • Trying

• The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them.

  

  David Tang
  • Famous

• I think we're all a lot more like our parents than we want to admit.

  

  Emmy Rossum
  • Parents

• I like really hot coffee, not too strong.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Strong
  • Coffee

• I was performing from the age of three.

  

  Jennifer Ellison
  • Age

• Talk about cheap - on Christmas Eve, my neighbour shoots off three blanks and tells his kids Santa Claus just committed suicide.

  

  Milton Berle
  • Suicide
  • Neighbour
  • Santa Claus

• I sat in a theater when I was 11 years old and watched 'The Empire Strikes Back' from 10 in the morning until 10 at night the day it came out.

  

  Joe Russo
  • Night
  • Morning

• The East Coast, and certainly Boston, has a provincial quality to it that makes it harder to bust out and move up. Try to be too different and they'll pull you down.

  

  Brad Falchuk
  • Up
  • Different
  • Quality

• If you're CEO of a company, you have to be a public person. You're speaking to the press, you're speaking to investors, you're speaking to employees, you're the public face of the company and so kind of naturally you become more extroverted, more outwards facing.

  

  Fabrice Grinda
  • Kind
  • Company
  • Employees

• Sometimes I get insecure about being a real director because I look at the great directors, and they have such command. But maybe that keeps me critical of myself. Maybe it keeps me moving forward.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Great
  • Real
  • Moving

• Le sujet d'une belle tragédie doit n'être pas vraisemblable.

  

  Pierre Corneille