Jean Giraudoux Quotes

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

Jean Giraudoux

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• I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Friends

• The talent curve in game-making is going straight up to Heaven.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • Up
  • Game
  • Heaven

• Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Art
  • Play
  • Politics

• If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Power
  • Miracle

• There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Choices
  • Nothing
  • Unlimited

• The first girl you go to bed with is always pretty.

  

  Walter Matthau
  • Pretty
  • Girl
  • You

• I think there's a difference when you make fun of yourself and your own behavior, and when you dishonor or disrespect Christ. If you're making a mockery of Christ is one thing. But if you're just joking about human foibles and weaknesses, I think that's perfectly acceptable.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Fun
  • Yourself
  • Disrespect

• Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Business
  • Silence
  • Bird

• There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Music
  • You
  • Risk

• I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • Freedom
  • Me
  • Car

• If months were marked by colors, November in New England would be colored gray.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • New
  • November
  • Colors

• I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Life
  • Know
  • I Can

• When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.

  

  Dana Torres
  • Team
  • Focus
  • Body

• I don't get hung up on weight.

  

  Jack Black
  • Up
  • Get
  • Weight

• I always try to be true to who I am and just be myself.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • True

• I'm always writing. A friend of mine once said, 'You avoid re-writing by writing.' Which is kind of a good point, because re-writing seems to be mostly about craft, and writing is just, like, getting out your passion on a piece of paper.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Friend

• I can use most of the tools that every American teenager can master. Maybe not all of them.

  

  Rand Paul
  • American
  • Teenager
  • Master

• I hope to stay light on my feet, to work in many modes, to seek inspiration always, and avoid the fatal. But, as we all know, it is the price of life to burn out, both metaphorically and literally.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Life
  • Work
  • Hope

• If you are going to store your e-wallet on your own server, don't keep your e-wallet on your desktop, and make sure you use encryption. If you lose your computer, your bitcoins are lost forever.

  

  Fred Ehrsam
  • Lost
  • Forever

• If you were asked to go on 'Mastermind,' what would your specialist subject be? I wouldn't have a clue what I could answer questions on. Birmingham City Football Club would be a start, I suppose, but with a hundred odd years of history, thousands of matches, players and incidents to recall, even access to Google would leave me struggling.

  

  Jasper Carrott
  • History
  • City
  • Football

• I'm a positive guy, even if I don't smile a lot.

  

  James Arthur
  • Guy
  • Positive
  • Smile

• Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of that enormous chain which all the living in common drag behind them?

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Power
  • Smile
  • Drag

• There is nothing on earth more beautiful to me than your smile…no sound sweeter than your laughter…no pleasure greater than holding you in my arms. I realized today that I could never live without you, stubborn little hellion that you are. In this life and the next, you’re my only hope of happiness. Tell me, dearest love how can you have reached so far inside my heart?

  

  Lisa Kleypas
  • Love
  • Happiness
  • Smile

• Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

  

  Jean Giraudoux
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