Francois Rabelais Quotes

When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.

Francois Rabelais

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• Chess is mental torture.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Chess
  • Torture
  • Mental

• I just think there are enough hours in the day. If you just focus and dedicate yourself and approach each task as it presents itself, you can accomplish a lot.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Day
  • Focus
  • Yourself

• I simply can't wear an outfit if I don't feel that is right for me.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Outfit

• Sometimes when it comes to the iconic kind of moments, when I read the script for the first time, you get little goose bumps or something because it really is kind of exciting.

  

  Aaron Ashmore
  • Time
  • Moments
  • Sometimes

• Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.

  

  Ovid
  • You
  • Will
  • Pool

• I can't run on treadmills; they drive me nuts.

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Me
  • Run
  • Drive

• I love a good fight and I think a bad fight can ruin a movie. I really do.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Think

• Whatever you read, there's no better place to read than the cockpit or the berth of a boat. It's kind of like being in a womb.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Kind
  • Better
  • Boat

• Like every artist that comes out, you want to make a mark; you want to be a household name and you want to be someone that people are going to look back in ten years/fifteen years' time and go, 'I love this guy Olly Murs. He was brilliant back in the day; he was someone I really, really liked.'

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Time
  • Day

• I always wanted to be a stand-up comedian, even as a kid. Me and my dad would watch 'Evening at the Improv' on A&E.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Dad
  • Always
  • Kid

• We propose in the following Treatise to give an outline of the Science which treats of the Nature, the Production, and the Distribution of Wealth. To that Science we give the name of Political Economy.

  

  Nassau William Senior
  • Nature
  • Science
  • Political

• The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • People
  • American
  • Control

• We are neurologically hardwired to seek out people like ourselves. We start forming cliques as soon as we're old enough to know what acceptance feels like. We bond together based on anything that we can - music preference, race, gender, the block that we grew up on.

  

  iO Tillett Wright
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Unique

• I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Live
  • Remember
  • Future

• The Platonists and their Christian successors held the peculiar notion that the Earth was tainted and somehow nasty, while the heavens were perfect and divine. The fundamental idea that the Earth is a planet, that we are citizens of the Universe, was rejected and forgotten.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Earth
  • Perfect
  • Universe

• There is a little of everything, apparently, in nature, and freaks are common.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Nature

• Life is just a candle, and a dream must give it flame... - The Fountain of Lamneth (1975)

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Life
  • Dream

• If we're going to spend more money, it should go to the soldiers, Marines, and airmen to increase their salaries.

  

  David Hunt
  • Money

• There's no trick of teaching acting. Either someone wants to do it and is gifted, or not.

  

  Marian Seldes

• The whole reason people fill their homes with furry carnivores and not with, say, iguanas and turtles, is because mammals offer something no reptile ever will. They give affection, they want affection, and respond to our emotions the way we do to theirs.

  

  Frans de Waal
  • People

• There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • World
  • Evil
  • Spiritual

• If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the writing of dialogue.

  

  David Nicholls
  • Writing

• When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.

  

  Francois Rabelais