Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.

Jean de la Bruyere

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• I'll give you my worst nightmare. I'm dreaming that I'm onstage, the curtain goes up, and I have no idea what my lines are or what's going on. I think I should know, I kind of know, I remember rehearsing... and the audience is there waiting.

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Think

• I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Up
  • Amazing
  • Problem

• 'Big Bang Theory' is not my kind of show. It's not my humor. I don't like multicam comedies. I don't want an audience to tell me when to laugh.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • Me
  • Humor
  • Laugh

• Boundaries are actually the main factor in space, just as the present, another boundary, is the main factor in time.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Time
  • Space
  • Present

• Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • People
  • Food
  • Consequences

• One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Being
  • Exciting
  • Advantages

• Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Science
  • Space
  • Tough

• When I heard Flying Lotus, I was like, 'Wow, okay, everything can be off the grid.'

  

  Flume
  • Like
  • Everything
  • Flying

• I don't want to be taller; I want to be myself.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Taller

• All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Life
  • God
  • Spirit

• As a kid from Texas, it always amazes me when city kids don't know how to ride a bike.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Kids
  • Me
  • City

• I enjoyed working at R.K.O. more than at M.G.M. At R.K.O., the parts were better!

  

  Laraine Day
  • Better
  • Working
  • More

• I wasn't necessarily the brightest in my family. I think my older sister was probably more clever, but I worked very hard.

  

  Wendi Deng Murdoch
  • Family
  • Think
  • Sister

• A buddy of mine was mad at his son the other day 'cause he got caught having sex with his teacher. I thought, 'Hey, that's pretty cool!' Problem was, he was home-schooled.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Home
  • Pretty
  • Cool

• Oh, I am heartily tired of hearing about what Lee is going to do. Some of you always seem to think he is suddenly going to turn a double somersault, and land in our rear and on both of our flanks at the same time. Go back to your command, and try to think what we are going to do ourselves, instead of what Lee is going to do.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Time
  • Tired

• The number of different aspects that the face of a man has assumed may be taken almost as a physiognomical measure of his … genius.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Different
  • May
  • Taken

• The stationmaster’s whiskers are of a Victorian bushiness and give the impression of having been grown under glass.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• To disband the armies and destroy the forts, to diffuse love and brotherhood, and peace and justice in the place of war and strife, could tend only to the buidling up of character, the elevation of the soul, and the strength and well-being of the state.

  

  Clarence Darrow
  • Up
  • Character
  • War

• Being in a Grand Slam, doesn't matter what you did before, it's always nervous and excitement.

  

  Garbine Muguruza

• Please to blot out gentle hearted, and substitute drunken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd-ey'd, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the Gentleman in question.

  

  Charles Lamb
  • Question
  • Dog
  • Gentleman

• The peace agreement must be seen as a matter of urgency.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Peace
  • Agreement
  • Urgency

• Hal, if I tell thee a lie, spit in my face, call me horse.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Lying
  • Horse
  • Faces

• The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.

  

  Jean de la Bruyere