Jeanne Calment Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life would have been far less fulfilling.
-
I wasn't rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn't a relationship of respect and communication, they were usually the opposite; kids go to the other extreme.
-
A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
-
I've done loads of things people have never seen - dramas on BBC4 and plays upstairs at the Royal Court and the Bush - and because I didn't go to drama school, they gave me an education.
-
The Internet is an amazing development.
-
One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.
-
If one marries out of necessity, he will have to reincarnate to reach the point where he wants to live only for God.
-
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
-
The public has become my fairy godmother.
-
If you stop for lunch elsewhere in the world, you tend to eat a sandwich, and a bad one. Italy is unique for the style of life. I think everyone envies it a bit.
-
Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal.
-
And rather than make the book unwieldy I have eschewed notes-reluctantly when some obscure passage or allusion seemed to ask for a timely word; with more equanimity when the temptation was to criticize or 'appreciate.' For the function of the anthologist includes criticizing in silence.
-
Most of the oxygen we breathe is made by ocean plankton. And when animals left the seas in which life arose, they took seawater with them, in their bodies - an internal environment crucial for cellular survival. We are, in a sense, soft vessels of seawater.
-
I've talked with friends about this: when you write about yourself, that's what people connect to. When you write a sermon or a lesson, that may not reach people. I've learned a lot from people who have been writing about themselves.
-
Some critics say I spent too much time on politics. I don't put much stock in the critics.
-
Comedy is my choice, as it's what I've always enjoyed doing.
-
Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man.
-
I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven.
-
Wrestling's a form of expression, and it expresses vastness.
-
I was never intimidated by change. I was like an army brat who had lived all around the world.
-
My father earned every penny he had, and I would have loved to have bought him a Rolls-Royce because his whole life was cars. Sadly, he didn't live to see the day when I could have done that for him, which still hurts.
-
When I left school, I went and bought my own sound system, and me and my dad would just go along to all the pubs and clubs around the local area and just sort of do our own little cover shows.
-
Are you really angry, or simply aware of anger in the body and mind? Don't speculate, simply look at what is there.
-
I'm not afraid of anything.
