Jean Anouilh Quotes

Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.

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• Tell the truth.

  

  Ian Hunter
  • Truth
  • Tell

• Songwriter friends will be like, 'Oh my God, when are you going to put out 'Love Triangle?'' It's just been that song for me that really helped me get a lot of writing sessions and helped jump-start my writing career.

  

  RaeLynn
  • God
  • Friends
  • Career

• And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Serious
  • Chance
  • Lawyer

• The Real is ever-present, like the screen on which the cinematographic pictures move. While the picture appears on it, the screen remains invisible. Stop the picture, and the screen will become clear. All thoughts and events are merely pictures moving on the screen of Pure Consciousness, which alone is real.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Real
  • Stop
  • Alone

• In the West, anything that must be hidden is suspect; availability and honesty are interlinked. This clashes irreconcilably with Islam, where the things that are most precious, most perfect and most holy are always hidden: the Kaaba, the faces of prophets and angels, a woman's body, Heaven.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Perfect
  • Heaven
  • Woman

• So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel!

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • American
  • Relationship
  • Government

• I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you just can't cry.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • You
  • Laugh
  • Tough

• It is nice to know that even David Beckham doesn't have good taste in everything.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Good
  • Know
  • Nice

• Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

  

  Beck
  • Men
  • Stars
  • Prison

• I like a person who knows how to say something dark at a very dark moment. The darker the moment and the darker the comic, the better. Something that is so wrong on all levels.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Dark
  • Better
  • Moment

• The difference between slaves in Roman and Ottoman days and today’s employees is that slaves did not need to flatter their boss.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Today
  • Boss

• While they were content to peck cautiously at the ball, he never spared himself in his efforts to do it a violent injury.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• Through them his paintings I breathe again.

  

  Clyfford Still
  • Breathe

• The case for sponsorships in commercial spaceflight is compelling and could dramatically impact the economics of space tourism. Global brands are looking for fresh, new ways to position themselves on the leading edge of their categories.

  

  Dylan Taylor
  • Space

• Think about a seed. Once it lands, it's stuck. It can't move to find better soil, moisture or sunlight. It's able to create every part of itself to grow and reproduce with the help of air, water and sun.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Help
  • Water
  • Air

• Being a single mother in the late 1950s was a very shocking thing - and dreadful thing - for people.

  

  Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant
  • People
  • Mother
  • Single

• I don't get called very often to play innocents.

  

  Christopher Meloni

• Being frugal, conscious of making money, is not a negative thing. That sensibility of creating value and finding value and reinvesting in those customers is what separates great restaurants from the average ones.

  

  Joe Bastianich
  • Great
  • Money
  • Value

• First time that I cried at a work of art was at a drum solo that I saw. A drummer named Winard Harper, part of the Billy Taylor Trio, gave back in - I would have been in high school - 2005 or something.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Time
  • Work
  • School

• (The Eurozone) resembles a fine riverboat that was launched on a still ocean in 2000. And then the first storm that hit it, in 2008, started creating serious structural problems for it. We started leaking water. And of course, the people in the third class, as in the Titanic, start feeling the drowning effects first.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Water

• You should have something to say, an idea you want to get out, and if you don't, just get out of the way, 'cause there's so many great musicians and writers that are in the queue.

  

  Paolo Nutini
  • Great

• You always have to make sure your husband knows he isn't going to be replaced.

  

  Penny Lancaster
  • Husband

• Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.

  

  Jean Anouilh