Brigitte Bardot Quotes

I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand.

Brigitte Bardot

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I find that with period pieces, you're sort of able to really take advantage of what's around you because prop-wise, wardrobe-wise and location-wise, it's all so specific due to that time.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Time
  • You
  • Period

• I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Book
  • Movie

• I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn't cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Taken
  • Make
  • Sure

• I get these weird divine feelings. They're, like, so strong I can't shake them.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Strong
  • Feelings
  • Weird

• The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Up
  • Explain
  • Jews

• American society loves to prop people up and then take them down.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Up
  • American

• At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Age
  • Pessimistic

• If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him.

  

  A. E. Waite
  • End
  • Hands
  • Him

• I think sometimes writers can get themselves into trouble trying to exert a totally controlled and super-knowing tone. This kind of knowingness is not the most promising tone to be sustained throughout a novel, to have a young woman who understands everybody and is always reading a room perfectly.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Trying
  • Reading
  • Woman

• The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Job
  • Day
  • Universe

• There's the movie you write, there's the movie you shoot and the movie you edit, and often, you find that you're getting the same information out of a scene that you already have and a scene that's actually more powerful, so you have to make the tough decision to take it out.

  

  Tate Taylor
  • Movie
  • Powerful
  • Decision

• I know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Know
  • Greek
  • Mythology

• Far out in the ocean, where the water is as blue as the prettiest cornflower, and as clear as crystal, it is very, very deep; so deep, indeed, that no cable could fathom it: many church steeples, piled one upon another, would not reach from the ground beneath to the surface of the water above. There dwell the Sea King and his subjects.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Water
  • Church
  • Deep

• All we ever intended for him or expected of him was that he should continue to make people everywhere chuckle with him and at him. We didn't burden him with any social symbolism, we made him no mouthpiece for frustrations or harsh satire. Mickey was simply a little personality assigned to the purposes of laughter.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Personality
  • Laughter

• Oh, than to enjoy a storm like thisThere's nothing I would rather, Don't dive between the blankets, Miss!Or else leave room for Father.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Father
  • Storm

• Oh, God! it is a fearful thingTo see the human soul take wingIn any shape, in any mood.

  

  Lord Byron
  • God
  • Soul
  • Mood

• No one has yet added up all the heavy, stress-filled workdays as well as the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives that are wasted to produce the world’s amusements. It is for this reason that 'amusements' are not so amusing.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Up
  • World
  • Stress

• Deep inside, I am a shy man. And in the presence of colorful characters, I am a clam. I never try to out-eccentric the eccentricsǃ

  

  Alfred Hitchcock
  • Deep

• Instead of piling up food in my fridge that says 'Come eat me!' I keep enough for only a couple of days. And I rarely have treats around that might tempt me late at night, which is when I usually crave something really fattening. What am I going to do? Drive out at 11 at night just to satisfy a craving? No, that's crazy.

  

  Jennifer Love Hewitt
  • Up
  • Night
  • Food

• If you want to be the best, find out what the top people do & do it yourself.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Leadership

• We can actually accelerate the process through meditation, through the ability to find stillness through loving actions, through compassion and sharing, through understanding the nature of the creative process in the universe and having a sense of connection to it. So, that's conscious evolution.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Nature
  • Universe
  • Understanding

• You should never do two things. You should hammer one nail all your life, and I didn't do that; I hammered on a lot of nails like a xylophone.

  

  Brion Gysin
  • Life
  • Hammer
  • Nail

• When I was filming 'The Haunting Hour', my co-stars Emily Osment, Brittany Curran and I paid a visit to a haunted house - all dressed up as vampires! We really confused the workers.

  

  Cody Linley
  • Up
  • House
  • Confused

• I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand.

  

  Brigitte Bardot