Pierre Corneille Quotes

Qui peut vivre infâme est indigne du jour.

Pierre Corneille

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• Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Meaningful
  • Optimistic
  • Narrative

• To me, a critic is some loser who has no idea... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions. No offense, but what makes them dictate what is cool and what is not.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Me
  • Cool
  • Opinion

• As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Long
  • Man
  • Way

• When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Culture
  • Environment

• I don't think I would take the game with the same mentality that I do now if I hadn't been injured.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Think
  • Game
  • Same

• To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Men
  • Law
  • Government

• I didn't understand the advantages of staying active until I was about 27.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Understand
  • Active
  • Staying

• I grew up in a little funny town called Xuzhou, in the countryside, very poor. We didn't have hot water. We were four children: three girls and a boy.

  

  Wendi Deng Murdoch
  • Up
  • Children
  • Funny

• Actually, I can write anywhere - airport lounges, in bed, on a rattling train going north.

  

  Kate Mosse
  • I Can
  • Train
  • Bed

• On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.

  

  Gary Larson
  • School
  • High
  • Guy

• When I looked at the skeleton of 'Damn Yankees,' I saw an indestructible story, absolutely original characters, one of the freshest, sassiest American scores of the century, and some outmoded equipment.

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • American
  • Story
  • Original

• I am a bit of a bad boy. I have tattoos and I mess around. That's part of my image, so it's cool.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Boy
  • Image
  • Tattoos

• That's what I like about acting. When you're preparing for a role, you do your research, and the bonus is you get to learn these skills. Now, it's on to whatever the next thing is I have to learn.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • Learn
  • Acting
  • Research

• When an actor decides to play a character, he must exude some sort of charisma and look relatable, even if he is playing the role of a really unattractive person.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Character
  • Play
  • Look

• I left school at sixteen - I was fed up and restless. The only thing that interested me at school was English language and literature, but I didn't have Latin, and so couldn't go on to university. So I went to a few drama schools, not studying seriously; I was mostly in love at the time and tied up with that.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Time
  • School
  • Seriously

• At that time c. 1904 – 1905 I tried, by means of lines and by distribution of mottled points of colours in his tempera painting on paper: 'Russian Beauty in a Landscape', 1905 to express the musical spirit of Russia. Other pictures of that period reflected the contradictions and later the eccentricities of Russia.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Time
  • Period
  • Painting

• I gotta shake hands with himǃ That's one guy I know I'm better lookin' than.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Guy

• On a blue island in a sky-wide water The wild orange trees continued to bloom and to bear, Long after the planter’s death.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Long
  • Death
  • Water

• Teams are often pretty clear about what they can do or are willing to do.

  

  Derek Fisher
  • Pretty

• We waste a lot of our lives sometimes. There are people sitting across from us who would make the whole world better if we spent more time with them in it, but we can't get across that gully.

  

  Adam Duritz Matt Malley
  • World
  • Waste
  • Sitting

• Well, you get my point: You've go one life with zero guarantees, so you do your best, adapt if possible, and keep on breathing. I recommend striving for happiness, but many opt for duty and responsibility. Mileage varies.

  

  Beth Harbison
  • Responsibility
  • Happiness
  • Breathing

• Qui peut vivre infâme est indigne du jour.

  

  Pierre Corneille