Francois Truffaut Quotes

The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary.

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• Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • People
  • Remember
  • I Can

• We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Force
  • Three
  • Task

• In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • History
  • Easy

• Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • Mother
  • House

• I miss people. I miss going anywhere and meeting a random person and saying 'Hi' and having a conversation about life. I love people.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Life
  • Miss

• Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Most
  • Precious
  • Possessions

• 'Shkoff' is to eat. 'Shkiaff' is to slap. Like, 'Gettouttahere I'm gonna give you a couple of shkiaffs,' or, 'Forget presentation, just shkiaff the food onto the plate.'

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • You
  • Food
  • Couple

• We need to find a way to empower citizens to make governments take notice.

  

  Ian Goldin
  • Find
  • Need
  • Empower

• You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame.

  

  Ted Allen
  • People
  • Great
  • Money

• I've always fought for my country, in my own way, showing that Filipinos are a strong people and can do anything that they put their minds to.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • People
  • Country
  • Strong

• Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Kids
  • Community
  • Risk

• Buddhists talk about nirvana in very much the same terms as monotheists describe God.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • God
  • Same
  • Talk

• The 1963 Corvair, which has some remarkable characteristics. It's one of the few cars I know that can do the bossa nova on dry pavement and the watusi on wet.

  

  Ralph Nader

• Be content - Expansions, diffusions - content to be The unspotted imbecile revery, The heraldic center of the world Of blue, blue sleek with a hundred chins, The amorist Adjective aflame...

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Blue

• There are two things that I feel very happy about from my tenure as Director of Health in Hong Kong: we introduced primary health care and preventive services from conception to old age; and we worked with herbalists to put Traditional Chinese Medicine on a firm footing of promotion, development and regulation.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • Happy
  • Age
  • Health

• I can't remember those words (Lyrics) even when we were on tour.

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • Remember
  • Words
  • Lyrics

• The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

  

  Laurence Sterne
  • Knowledge
  • Desire

• Mis culpas no irán a otras manos por mi culpa. No quiero otra culpa en mis manos.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I want to be known for this character on TV two nights a week, and then I want to go away and live my life in private.

  

  AJ Lee
  • Life
  • Live
  • Character

• Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way people usually see them. It can make for lively conversations, but that's great. Spark a little controversy, get people to think about it. That's what it's all about.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • People
  • Great
  • Think

• Music was transmitted over the airwaves in the '60s - for free, even - astonishingly enough without Bit Torrent.

  

  Andrew Rosenthal
  • Music
  • Free

• Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.

  

  Bernard Crick
  • Politics
  • Manners
  • Useful Thing

• If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.

  

  Maimonides
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Knowledge

• The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary.

  

  Francois Truffaut