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

• Belief is such a powerful thing - but because it is, it can also be very destructive and it's very easily manipulated.

  

  Jena Malone
  • Powerful

• You should never ask, 'What would the readers like now?' Instead, you should ask, 'What would I like if I was a reader?' And then you must trust your own mind.

  

  Hakan Nesser
  • Mind
  • Trust
  • Never

• To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.

  

  Joseph Wood Krutch
  • Solitude
  • Known
  • Oneself

• The oil industry is hardly free to operate as efficiently as it could or to be as responsive to consumer demands as it would like. It has become, in essence, a quasi-state-run enterprise, because it cannot drill, transport, refine, and store fuel without receiving government permission, complying with government regulations, and paying taxes at every level or production.

  

  Mark Levin
  • Free
  • Running
  • Taxes

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

  

  Pierre Corneille