Pierre Corneille Quotes

Je me défendrai mal: l'innocence étonnéeNe peut s'imaginer qu'elle soit soupçonnée.

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• I grew up hiking and horseback riding in Tennessee, so I love being outside. I will joyfully run 12 miles, but I'm not very good at boot camps. When they start yelling, I start laughing.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Good
  • Laughing
  • Grew

• I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Travel

• To oppose something is to maintain it.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Something
  • Maintain
  • Oppose

• I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.

  

  Harry Bridges
  • Man
  • Head
  • Machine

• The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Science
  • Courage
  • Go

• Because I've a track record of talking about books I never write, in Australia they think I'm about to write a book about Jane Austen. Something I said at some festival.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Book
  • Think
  • Australia

• I am not a methodical singer. I don't follow any process or rules; what I follow is just my heart - whatever I experience, I just write and then compose it.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Heart
  • Process
  • Rules

• Some days, I feel like I should win Best Mom of the Day award, and some days, I find myself doing strange things that don't have any real purpose, in faraway corners in my house, and I realize I am literally and deliberately hiding from my children.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Children
  • Real
  • House

• A game of soccer induces more than enjoyment, more than entertainment.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Game
  • Soccer
  • Entertainment

• I was really intrigued by the idea of using live streams of data that's relevant to real people, and that would allow us to reflect and learn about ourselves.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • People
  • Live
  • Real

• Men get laid, but women get screwed.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Men
  • Women
  • Screwed

• People never believe you.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • People
  • Believe
  • Never

• I went out of my way to try not to be an artist, because I thought I would end up leading a miserable, obscure life. I tried to escape it for as long as I could, until I had to admit at 25 that that was my path.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Life
  • Up
  • Long

• The difference between our family and other poor families was that my mother actively chose to be poor. She was highly literate, and she had a college degree, but after my father left, she took the first secretarial job she could find and never looked for other employment again.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Family
  • She
  • Job

• Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories.

  

  Larry King
  • Stories
  • Favorite
  • Les

• There are two types of women out there: there's the kind of woman who finds something nice and likes to keep it to herself, and then there's the other type, which is me, who wants to share.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Women
  • Nice
  • Kind

• As I plotted 'Blueprints,' I realized that ageism against women is most obvious in the field of entertainment - and that I needed a TV show in my book.

  

  Barbara Delinsky
  • Women
  • Book
  • Most

• Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Candy
  • Quicker
  • Dandy

• I get called Pink quite a lot. The Pink of the Action Sport World. Or Queen of the Dirt - some call me that.

  

  Caroline Buchanan
  • World
  • Action
  • Pink

• I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and a guitar.

  

  Steve Earle
  • Writing
  • House
  • Song

• If Broadway no longer seems behind the times or ahead of the times, it may be because there are no 'times' anymore, no prevailing Zeitgeist that sets the fashion, pace, and prevailing look.

  

  James Wolcott
  • May
  • Fashion

• Songs are more powerful than books.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Powerful

• At first he who invented any art that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only because there was something useful in the inventions, but because he was thought wise and superior to the rest. But as more arts were invented, and some were directed to the necessities of life, others to its recreation, the inventors of the latter were always regarded as wiser than the inventors of the former, because their branches of knowledge did not aim at utility.

  

  Aristotle
  • Art
  • Man
  • Thought

• Je me défendrai mal: l'innocence étonnéeNe peut s'imaginer qu'elle soit soupçonnée.

  

  Pierre Corneille