Jean de La Fontaine Quotes

Je vais t'entretenir de moindres aventures,Te tracer en ces vers de légères peintures;Et si de t'agréer je n'emporte le prix,J'aurai du moins d'honneur de l'avoir entrepris.

Jean de La Fontaine

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• During workouts, I listen to Pandora, and I like the '90s pop stations. 'The Backstreet Boys' is fun!

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • Fun
  • Like
  • Listen

• It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Men
  • Pride
  • Humility

• I looked at the world with the humaneness, I think, which is one of the hallmarks of being liberal in my mind.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • World
  • Mind
  • Think

• Be obscure clearly.

  

  E. B. White
  • Funny
  • Obscure
  • Clearly

• I'm originally from southern California, so I, like, say 'like', like, a lot. I've been trying to scrub any traces of Valley Girl from my speech since I moved to New York, but it's, like, totally way harder than anyone thinks, you know?

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Trying
  • Girl
  • California

• That's something the head scarf, in a symbolic way, is meant to do in Arabic culture: it defines your relationship to your husband and the men of your family differently than your relationship to the average guy on the street you've never met.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Men
  • Family
  • Guy

• Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Pretty
  • Culture
  • You

• I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Way
  • Movies
  • Scared

• I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Up
  • House
  • Player

• The way I pack is I look at how long I'll be gone and I pack day for day. If I'm going on a three-day fishing trip, I plot each day. I put most of that in a little bag. If I'm going from there to work on golf courses for a few days, I plot that trip.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Work
  • Long
  • Day

• Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Real
  • Success
  • Man

• My fans can see me grow up.

  

  Becky G
  • Me
  • See
  • Fans

• I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Imagination

• Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else.

  

  Mae West
  • Long
  • Man
  • Find

• Receiving personal revelation is not a passive process. As we seek such revelations, we must prepare for these sacred experiences.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Process
  • Sacred
  • Prepare

• The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • America
  • Value
  • Artist

• I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of time is so inconceivable to me.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Time
  • Home
  • Me

• While receiving radiation treatment for a thyroid illness, I had refused to take beta-blockers - a medication that would have eased its side effects - because they were deemed illegal by the sport's governing body, the International Association of Athletics Federations.

  Gail Devers
  • Body
  • Illness
  • Medication

• My music is the chicken soup kind. I want people to get a good feeling in their soul from these songs. Roots rock, heartland rock... whatever you want to call it is OK with me.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• Everyone knows that if you've got a brother, you're going to fight.

  

  Liam Gallagher Oasis
  • Brother
  • Knows
  • Fight

• If you've ever known the love of God, you know it's nothing but reckless and it's nothing but raging. Sometimes it hurts to be loved, and if it doesn't hurt it's probably not love, may be infatuation. I think a lot of American people are infatuated with God, but we don't really love Him, and they don't really let Him love them. Being loved by God is one of the most painful things in the world, it's also the only thing that can bring us salvation and it's like everything else that is really wonderful, there's a little bit of pain in it, little bit of hurt.

  

  Rich Mullins
  • World
  • Pain
  • Hurt

• I am not as simple as I look.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Simple
  • Look

• If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Revenge
  • Ancient
  • Bears

• Je vais t'entretenir de moindres aventures,Te tracer en ces vers de légères peintures;Et si de t'agréer je n'emporte le prix,J'aurai du moins d'honneur de l'avoir entrepris.

  

  Jean de La Fontaine