Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

An army which cannot be regularly recruited is a doomed army.

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• I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer.

  

  Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe
  • Parents
  • Stop
  • Beginning

• I don't know any woman who doesn't have an anxiety attack about wearing a bathing suit.

  

  Vanessa Marcil
  • Know
  • Woman
  • Anxiety

• A plan is always successful if the plan is good.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Good
  • Successful
  • Plan

• I used to be affected by criticism thrown at me, and I would get really down. But I got to a point where I just decided to go for it, no matter what negativity is around you.

  

  Yuna
  • Me
  • Criticism
  • Down

• It's not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and it's not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.

  

  Zhou Xun
  • Easy
  • Chinese
  • Films

• Tax cuts are like sex: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are still pretty good.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Pretty

• I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Challenges

• To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

  

  Edgar Lee Masters
  • Life
  • May
  • Desire

• I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding after having kids, like Mary King, but people say that you lose your nerve after you have kids. It's the risk.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • People
  • Kids
  • Couple

• A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Beautiful
  • Freedom
  • Rock

• A lot of films come out before they're finished.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Come
  • Finished
  • Out

• I'm not tall enough to be a model, but I wish I was 6-foot, because I love it. It's kind of artsy, and I'm artsy. And I love clothes.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Wish
  • Model
  • Tall

• I'm open-minded. I don't consider myself gay or hetero, I just am. I've had experiences all over the planet but it always comes down to just me, but I think at this point if I had an ongoing relationship I believe it would be with a man.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Believe
  • Man
  • Relationship

• There have been many gay knights in the past - like Sir Noel Coward or Sir John Gielgud.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Past
  • Like
  • Gay

• They have to be able to spark my interest so I want to pursue it, and they have to have an awesome personality, really laid-back. All those things are sexy to me.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Personality
  • Sexy
  • Awesome

• I'm not someone who's sort of still trying to figure out what I believe in.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • I Believe

• I never have cakes or biscuits. I don't have a sweet tooth at all, and I can't stand chocolates - I find them so sickly. However, I will buy cakes if I'm expecting company.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Sweet
  • Company
  • Stand

• I find it always pleasurable talking with young people, particularly those aspiring to be writers, out of nostalgia, and because I've always felt that we oldies can learn so much from them and draw from them inspiration in our flagging and rickety years.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • People
  • Learn
  • Inspiration

• We need some imaginative stimulus, some not impossible ideal such as may shape vague hope, and transform it into effective desire, to carry us year after year, without disgust, through the routine-work which is so large a part of life.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Life
  • Work
  • May

• After I spent my compulsory army service in the 'top secret office' of the Medical Forces, where I was fortunate to be exposed to clinical and medical issues, I enrolled to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Service
  • Army
  • Medical

• I admired Truman, among many other things, because he integrated the Army. I admired JFK because the very first civil rights legislation was passed at his insistence. JFK showed what you could do, though he was a deeply flawed person, as we all now know.

  

  Jed S. Rakoff
  • Army

• Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• I like characters where there's something going on and something to make him real. If you find out what somebody cares about, all of a sudden, the whole world opens up.

  

  William Fichtner
  • World
  • Real
  • Character

• An army which cannot be regularly recruited is a doomed army.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Army
  • Doomed
  • Recruited