Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes

Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.

Sébastien-Roch Nicolas

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• Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
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• Everyone's path is really different, and you just have to be in the right place at the right time. 'The X Factor' gave me that chance I needed, that platform.

  

  Fleur East
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• I've had Botox. It hurts a lot, but I like it.

  

  Pamela Hanson
  • Like
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• I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know – every audience has its own personality.

  

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• Actors can't retire. What would they do?

  

  Larry Hagman
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• For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking my characters to the edges of human experience, to the edges of themselves and then, asking certain questions - about love, what does it mean to love? What's beauty? What is true beauty? What does it mean to be insane - crazy?

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Experience
  • True
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• I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Believe
  • Children
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• Whenever I Google for clothes, I always look at what Angelina Jolie is wearing. I love Sienna Miller, and I really like Rihanna's style, too. There's the edgy girl, classy girl, and the Bohemian chic girl. I guess I'm all of that combined into one.

  

  Yuna
  • Love
  • Girl
  • Style

• If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?

  

  Ian Botham
  • Good
  • Change
  • Three

• Now the main areas of higher education that still enjoy considerable financial support from government are subjects like engineering and science and the research ringfence which is the basic minimum to protect Britain's scientific competitiveness.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Science
  • Education
  • Support

• When I first went out on the road with Larry Williams, there was also, like, The Coasters, The Drifters, and The Flamingos.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Like
  • Road
  • First

• As it defines itself, every society defines other societies. That definition almost always takes the form of a condemnation: the 'other' is the barbarian.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Society
  • Always
  • Almost

• When I'm working I wear so much makeup, and when I'm out with my friends I wear makeup, so sometimes at school I'm just like, 'Today is not much of a makeup day - foundation, chapstick - done.'

  

  Laura Marano
  • School
  • Done
  • Friends

• I would like to say that I was inspired to write 'Shiver' by some overwhelming belief in true love, but here's my true confession: I wrote 'Shiver' because I like to make people cry.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • People
  • True
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• I wasn't thinking that I was two horrors back to back; I was thinking these were characters that I want to play.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Thinking
  • Want
  • Play

• You know, I think I'm the worst player to talk to about statistics.

  

  Victoria Azarenka
  • Think
  • Know
  • Player

• Normally my problem is that I'm too inquisitive and want to do everything.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Problem
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• It's much harder to play myself. If I ever do a movie again, it'll be a singing serial killer.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Movie
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• The irony that always amazes me when I see people up in arms about our war against Islamo-fascism is how they don’t understand that the social freedoms they take for granted will be the first casualties of Islamic influence and control. The only social liberal thinkers in the Muslim Arab Islamo-fascist world are dead ones. Women’s freedoms and their protection under the law, freedom of speech, separation of church and state, and other human rights will be the first to suffer. Oh yes, sorry, I forgot. . . there will always be the ACLU to depend on to keep the radical Muslims from taking these rights away. How foolish of me. Almost lost my head there.

  

  Brigitte Gabriel
  • People
  • War
  • Irony

• There are three stages of an actor's career. Young, old, and "You look good".

  

  Burt Reynolds
  • Stages
  • Actor's career

• The humped bladderwort has yellow, snapdragon-like flowers, and it's actually carnivorous, capable of trapping and eating not just insects but even tadpoles and tiny fish.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Eating
  • Flowers
  • Fish

• I was truly honored to work with legendary DJ and producer DJ Premier. I still can't believe I have a track with Premier; it really is one of the best songs I've written in a long time.

  

  Yuna
  • Time
  • Work
  • Believe

• I wish you had one of those fairy telescopes that can look into the hearts and souls of people a thousand leagues off, then you might see how much you possess my mind.

  

  Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood

• Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Eating
  • Collections
  • Verses