Jean Rostand Quotes

Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.

Jean Rostand

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Want

• The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature... these are not good stories.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • World
  • Good
  • Live

• I never got into politics for it to be a career.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Career
  • Never
  • Politics

• It's not enough to just mildly want what you want. You must wildly want what you want. Nobody ever got their greatest wishes by being wishy-washy. You need to put extreme energy into your power of intention to win what you wanna win.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Power
  • Energy
  • Win

• In the 9th grade I began my first wage work for the West Side Drug store delivering prescriptions and sundries on my bicycle to customers who called in orders.

  

  Vernon L. Smith
  • Work
  • First
  • Drug

• Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.

  

  Kate Mulgrew
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Simple

• These days... it's all vanilla sex for me.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Me
  • Sex
  • Days

• I grew up watching Salman Khan and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who have always juggled fitness with acting. In real life, I'm a fitness freak. Besides, it is nice to look at an actor who is fit, and if you become a role model, that's a perk.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Life
  • Up
  • Real

• By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Science
  • Faith
  • Achievement

• I want tragic and poetic forever! That's how I want to live every day.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Live
  • Want
  • Day

• The European Union and its member states continue and will continue, as the nuclear deal is implemented, to have open channels with Iran.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Will
  • Open
  • Continue

• The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Important
  • Moral
  • Revolution

• I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • People
  • Road
  • Perception

• We've got to decide that we want to live in a world that is sane and happy and healthy, and that everyone deserves that.

  

  Majora Carter
  • World
  • Live
  • Happy

• When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.

  

  Samuel Foote
  • House
  • Learning
  • Land

• Eat and sleep and exercise. Above all else!

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Sleep
  • Exercise

• Humans have spent (10k+) years learning to fight and debate with the other side, and almost no time learning to listen and empathize.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Time
  • Learning

• I am a native in this world And think in it as a native thinks

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World

• The sad truth for American actors is that they really have no control whatsoever over the material that they get, or can do, particularly actresses. And if you're over 40 and you're an actress, forget it.

  

  James Gray
  • Truth
  • American
  • Control

• I'm still me even after all that's happened.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Me
  • Happened
  • Still

• I bear witness, O my God, that Thou hast created me to know Thee and to worship Thee. I testify, at this moment, to my powerlessness and to Thy might, to my poverty and to Thy wealth. There is none other God but Thee, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.

  

  Bahá'u'lláh
  • God
  • Help
  • Poverty

• I've never wanted just part of the package, part of the prize. I want it all!

  

  Bill McCartney

• Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.

  

  Jean Rostand