Jean Rostand Quotes
One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.
Quotes to Explore
-
A lot of people can't remember things because they weren't actually there to begin with - they don't take it all in.
-
I always had this childhood image in the back of my mind of this fantastic place where all the things I liked came from; Orson Welles, jazz, all that stuff. Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.
-
We are all losers in comparison to Malala Yousafzai. But we are not all geniuses. Like me.
-
Let me tell you that I love the United States.
-
We do have our finger on the pulse of the marketplace, if for no other reasons than having all these live events and listening to our audience all the time.
-
I would love to do an electronic record. There's just so much to see and do and try. And life goes by.
-
Why should anyone be interested in my life? It's the prurience I find so extraordinary. Why, why, oh why should my private life be of any interest to the public? The only people who should be interested are my friends.
-
The reality is that we know that this universe, that our galaxy, has billions of stars. We know that stars have planets. So the likelihood that there is life somewhere else to me is just absolutely there.
-
'Esquire Magazine' just gave me 'Father of the Year'. I'll put it right up there with my gold medal. I survived; that's why they gave it to me.
-
I think I was perceived in one fashion. A video is based on a song. I think you can get glimpses of people's presence within that. There's some people you enjoy watching more than others.
-
There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.
-
I obey Thee Lord, first for the love I ought, in all reason to bear Thee; secondly for that Thou canst shorten or prolong the lives of men.
-
The Internet is a computing platform built on top of core technology. Applied technology is what gets built on top of that: It's Web services.
-
I studied the Bible and philosophy in college, and I think in a certain sense that's the kind of stuff that still makes my brain work.
-
I actually really suck at naming books, so lots of years ago, readers were sending in their ideas for titles, and what we realized is that they were smarter than us. So we thought, Hey, go for it. So now we have a contest every year.
-
You may hate gravity, but gravity doesn't care.
-
The idea of physical strain and discipline, the question of how and when you leave that life behind - they're things I'm familiar with on one level or another.
-
My children are not royal; they just happen to have the Queen for their aunt.
-
We all grew up aware of Agatha Christie; there is no writer more prolific than her in England.
-
Your spirit is the duster of any spider web. Behind every finish line, there is a start one. Behind every success, there is another challenge. While you are alive, be alive. If you miss what you once did, do it again. Don't live in yellow photos... Continue although everyone expects you to give up. Don't let oxide the iron that is inside you. Do that instead of pity, and they will respect you. When because of years you cannot run, jog. When you cannot jog, walk. When you cannot walk, use a cane. But never stop!
-
America's vulnerability comes precisely from its strength, its wealth, its power and its modernity. It's the usual story of the dog chasing its own tail.
-
Largely as a result of the policies and priorities of the Reagan administration, more people are becoming poor and staying poor in this country than at any time since World War II.
-
I couldn't possibly have any regrets, because I've been very lucky, I've been celebrated, and I've survived. I couldn't have one single regret. That would be absurd.
-
One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.
