Jean Anouilh Quotes

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.

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• I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.

  

  Adam Hicks
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Love

• I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Believe
  • War
  • Death

• Excuse my voice - I don't have the thundering voice I used to have to get players going on the ice anymore.

  

  Pat Burns
  • Voice
  • Going
  • Ice

• The American dream always meant that anybody willing to put in a hard day's work could make a decent living. That's just not true anymore for people without at least some post-high school education.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • People
  • Work
  • School

• There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Believe
  • History
  • Change

• I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• Christian Louboutin, I love you, but honey, please! But when you have this much weight, you've got to give us a little platform. Sorry! The shoes are stunning though. An ounce of pain, it's worth it.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Pain
  • Give
  • Worth

• It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the president had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Earth
  • Conversation
  • Rise

• The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Question
  • Matter
  • Everyone

• On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • True
  • Die
  • Play

• The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Me
  • Woman
  • Interest

• I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Writing
  • Know
  • Hip Hop

• I can pretty much live without fast food. I haven't eaten McDonald's in so long, but it's okay.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Long
  • Live
  • Pretty

• I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. It's a conscious thing; it's a common-sense thing.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • You
  • Relationship
  • Space

• My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Mind
  • Friend
  • Positive

• Boxing combines, in perfect proportion, strength, speed, and endurance. Normally, most sports are either about one of the three: either about speed or endurance or strength. Boxing combines all three of them. It's really intense.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Perfect
  • Sports
  • Strength

• The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is one of the relatable things - dealing with failures and missteps in life - and it's something that's so rarely dealt with in movies, especially kids' movies.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Life
  • Character
  • Kids

• Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Men
  • Live
  • Bread

• It's cheaper to buy a house and finance it than it is to rent in many markets.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • House
  • Finance
  • Rent

• Virgil Flowers fishes in the St. Croix where I fish for muskies near my house.

  

  John Sandford
  • House

• I'm particularly drawn to actors in their own little drama. I find it's that area I'm very alive to. And I don't encounter it that often. You have to be far from civilization, you have to be far from New York or London to find people who do that.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Drama
  • New York

• 'Grigory Petrovitch, let us weep, let us weep with joy!' he said in a thin voice, and then at once burst out laughing in a loud bass guffaw. 'Ho-ho-ho! This is a fine daughter-in-law for you too! Everything is in its place in her; all runs smoothly, no creaking, the mechanism works well, lots of screws in it.'

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Law
  • Joy
  • Daughter

• Chefs, as a whole, say yes to any project, fundraiser, or tasting because they have such a generous spirit.

  

  Charlie Trotter

• We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.

  

  Jean Anouilh
  • House
  • Fear