Pierre Corneille Quotes

C'est une imprudence assez commune aux roisD'écouter trop d'avis et se tromper au choix.

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• When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker spaniel named Baba. We weren't friends, Baba and I, nor enemies. He wasn't my dog. He belonged to the people my mother worked for, and he lived in the house with them and us.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Friends
  • Mother

• They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Believe
  • War
  • Like

• I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Time
  • Party
  • Gossip

• Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • Music
  • Today
  • Song

• Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!

  

  Larry David
  • Home
  • Divorce
  • Lights

• When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Together
  • Think
  • I Think

• Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to humans but none of which that are unique to language. Coming together they make language possible. But the fundamental building block of language is community.

  

  Daniel Everett
  • Together
  • Community
  • Unique

• For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that?

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Better
  • Theatre
  • London

• If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Time
  • Important
  • Kids

• If your dream is to tell stories, interesting stories, play interesting people, that's the bottom line. The people that I play have to be extraordinary.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Dream
  • Interesting

• Adulthood is hell.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Hell
  • Adulthood

• To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Persons
  • Much
  • Often

• Teamwork is a strategic decision.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Decision
  • Teamwork

• Philanthropic dollars are precious resources, so it's our responsibility to consider how we use them carefully. Yet few of us spend enough time doing so.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Time
  • Responsibility
  • Doing

• Whenever you manage more than 100 attorneys, there's always going to be attorneys who believe that someone isn't as good as they are.

  

  Pat Meehan
  • Good
  • Believe
  • You

• When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

  

  Quintilian
  • Wisdom
  • Defeat
  • Wisest

• I think that I’m a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I’ll tell you right now that I’m gonna think I’m a better political director than my political director.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Political

• Trust the acting.

  

  Jean-Marc Vallee
  • Trust

• The idea of 'Yes on Broadway' has come up. It would reflect the history of Yes.

  

  Chris Squire Yes
  • Up
  • History

• I was never an Angry Young Man. I am angry only when I hit my thumb with a hammer.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Angry
  • Hammer
  • Thumb

• It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca

• I don't set out to win awards. I don't think any musician does, but when you receive an award, it's an affirmation: it means that people appreciate what you do. Every award I have received is a confirmation of something I have done, and that motivates me to push a little harder.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • People
  • Musician
  • Appreciate

• C'est une imprudence assez commune aux roisD'écouter trop d'avis et se tromper au choix.

  

  Pierre Corneille