Jean Anouilh Quotes

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

Jean Anouilh

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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

• 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

• Living in a polluted city like New York, I try to go on hikes upstate as much as I can.

  

  Kenza Fourati
  • City

• For no matter the shadows of an age, the picture of a young couple in love, we are told, speaks most luminously of the future, as the span of that passion makes us believe we can overleap any walls, obliterate whatever obstacles.

  

  Chang-Rae Lee
  • Believe
  • Couple
  • Wall

• In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.

  

  Billy Gibbons ZZ Top

• I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it.

  

  Loretta Young
  • Death
  • Pain

• People make me feel like I have a problem because I haven't had a kid yet.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • People

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

  

  Jean Anouilh