Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm old enough to remember in the 1930s and the 1940s when thrift, frugality, was considered an important virtue.
-
I don't say I never use Facebook, but I often think about closing my account.
-
Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.
-
You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.
-
Also, an area that interests me – and it will probably take years to state what I mean – is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th.
-
When you're a teenager, everything seems like the end of the world, and I don't think that's necessarily a silly thing. You're waking up and becoming aware that the world has problems and those problems affect you, whereas when you're young they don't seem to affect you that much even if you're aware of them.
-
It's what happens in other major championships - I just lose my head a little bit.
-
I get asked to comment a lot on inequality in cycling, but for me it has never been an issue. Everything has always been equal on the track, and the male and female riders are all part of the same team, and we all mix freely.
-
If the IOC would move the Olympic hockey tournament to the summer, that would be great. We'd be thrilled to have our players participate because then it doesn't affect our season.
-
The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.
-
First and foremost, I'm a decorator and product designer. Everything I do, the television shows, the books, that comes from the design work. It's what I love.
-
Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
-
'The more expensive the better' is kind of the American way, and if you spent $600 for a sweatshirt, then that makes it better.
-
I'm easily entertained.
-
The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.
-
Whatever it takes to win.
-
We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London.
-
'Trapped in the Closet' is pretty much forever. I've got a leash on this thing now. I'm going to walk it.
-
Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.
-
I'm the lightest sleeper. I can hear a pin drop. It's been worse since I was ill. I think your inner ear is always half open, listening out for the faintest danger sign.
-
The truth is I love musical theater and always have.
-
When I look at relationships, my own and others, I see a wide range of reasons for people to be together and ways in which they are together. I see ways in which a relationship - which means something that exists between two or more people - for the most part reinforces people's separateness as individual entities.
-
I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.'
-
The French complain of everything, and always.
