Francois Rabelais Quotes

I drink no more than a sponge.

Francois Rabelais

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• I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.

  

  Ed Asner
  • School
  • High
  • Career

• I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Book
  • Know
  • Famous

• I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Enemy

• I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go.

  

  Naomi Scott
  • Home
  • Community
  • Always

• When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Life
  • Time
  • Men

• I grew up really poor and have always been the type of person who will work earlier or work harder or more than the other person to even the playing field.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Up
  • Work
  • Will

• I never desperately wanted to be a jazz drummer. If anything, I was motivated a lot by fear. Fear of the conductor, fear of the future.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Future
  • Fear
  • Motivated

• If you're a designer, there's got to be some films that you've seen that have inspired you creatively. There's no escaping that.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • You
  • Inspired
  • Got

• Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Myself
  • Singing
  • Hurt

• I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Life
  • Way
  • Funny

• My hand does the work and I don't have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It's like a dam in the brain that bursts.

  

  Edna O'Brien
  • Work
  • Think
  • Stop

• For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Time
  • Women
  • NASA

• I certainly went to New York because I was searching. Most people who go to New York are searching.

  

  Faith Prince
  • People
  • New York
  • Searching

• My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Long
  • Grandfather
  • Island

• Sometimes we never see what failure is and often fail to recognize it.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Sometimes
  • Never
  • Failure

• There is the glamour side of it, which allows you to meet great variety of people with whom you simply can have a good time, but there's also the sad side of it that drags you into a superficial and artificial world.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• 'Love has a language that transcends all languages, all barriers and all distance.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Distance

• The best product should be bought, the best man should be rewarded more. Interfering factors which befuddle this triumph of virtue, justice, truth, and efficiency, etc., should be kept to an absolute minimum or should approach zero as a limit.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Truth
  • Justice

• I used to ride motorbikes and drive cars like everything was a racetrack; it was ridiculous. It wasn't because I thought it was cool; it was just because I loved living on the edge. But I've chilled.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Cool
  • Thought
  • Ride

• It so happened that Lucy, who found daily life rather chaotic, entered a more solid world when she opened the piano. She was then no longer either deferential or patronizing; no longer either a rebel or a slave.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life
  • World
  • She

• Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Reading
  • Books
  • Sit Down

• I drink no more than a sponge.

  

  Francois Rabelais