Pierre Corneille Quotes

Ô combien d’actions, combien d’exploits célèbresSont demeurés sans gloire au milieu des ténèbres.

Pierre Corneille

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• I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.

  

  Katharine Cornell
  • Amazing
  • Woman
  • Performances

• I'm very open-minded.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Very
  • Open-minded

• I phoned Joe Roth, who was head of the studio at the time, and told him how beautiful the film was, and that I was fully ready to support it, that Michael's work was wonderful and I imagined that Daniel would feel the same. He listened quietly and read between the lines.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Time
  • Work
  • Beautiful

• What is without periods of rest will not endure.

  

  Ovid
  • Rest
  • Will
  • Without

• The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • High
  • Father
  • Daughter

• I approach 'Fast & Furious 6' the same way I would approach a Sidney Lumet film. Getting into character's getting into character.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Character
  • Same
  • Fast

• I always liked the story of Noah's Ark and the idea of starting anew by rescuing the things you like and leaving the rest behind.

  

  Zach Braff
  • You
  • Rest
  • Leaving

• A Russia that gradually begins to gravitate toward the West will also be a Russia that ceases to disrupt the international system.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Will
  • West
  • Begins

• The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Moving
  • Wit
  • Moving On

• Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Power
  • Free
  • Doing

• I'm not cut out to be a detective on 'Law & Order' - I laugh too easily.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Law
  • Laugh
  • Cut

• What I loved the most about Oakland was that all of my neighbors came in as many colors, ideas, and religions as there are people on the planet. How lucky I was to know so many people that were so different and yet so much alike!

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • People
  • Different
  • Ideas

• I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • World
  • Busy
  • Weep

• Boxing is not about your feelings. It's about performance.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Boxing
  • Performance
  • Your

• Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • World
  • City
  • Player

• 98 percent of the animals raised for food suffer horrifically on factory farms before being slaughtered. Every time you eat a vegan meal, you're voting for something different.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Time
  • Different
  • Food

• I've got two young sons who, when I ask them and their friends how they feel about gay marriage, kinda give me one of those looks like, 'Gosh, Mom, why are you even asking that question?'

  

  Lisa Murkowski
  • Why
  • Friends
  • Question

• That's the beauty of creativity. It comes from the ether. I like to think, sometimes, it's like I haven't written it, it's more like I just reached up and grabbed it from somewhere. That song, 'Song of the Red Rock Mountain,' is one of them. I recorded it and thought, 'Where did that come from?'

  

  Alvin Lee
  • Up
  • Song
  • Rock

• I was starstruck and sweat a lot when I met Oprah Winfrey and tried to hug her. Because when you think you know people when you see them from your couch.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Hug

• When people start to write articles about what might be wrong with the 'Today' show you know where you should point the finger, point it at me because I have been there the longest. And it's my responsibility.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • People
  • Today
  • Responsibility

• Obama: But you would rule in the possibility to fight against ISIS.Trump: Well, I'm never gonna rule anything out. And I wouldn't wanna say. Even if I felt - it wasn't going - I wouldn't wanna tell you that because, at a minimum, I want them to think maybe that we would use it.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Trump

• Ô combien d’actions, combien d’exploits célèbresSont demeurés sans gloire au milieu des ténèbres.

  

  Pierre Corneille