Jules François Felix Fleury-Husson (Champfleury) Quotes

A little drowsing cat is an image of perfect beatitude.

Jules François Felix Fleury-Husson

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• Right now, I'm not really thinking about marriage.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Thinking
  • Marriage
  • Now

• As historians, we spend days in archives, gazing at account books. We train would-be historians in the arts of deciphering letters and documents, early Latin, scribal handwriting, medieval French.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Latin
  • Train
  • Arts

• The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Man

• It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Democracy
  • Ignore
  • Nation

• Our parents are obviously proud, but they're still trying to get used to the fact that we're in a band. I have a feeling my mom would actually like One Direction if I wasn't in it!

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Trying
  • Parents
  • Feeling

• Rebellion is what you make of it. When you've been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Want
  • You
  • Car

• I think I've had an interesting life. I've done films, TV, theatre and got married. I don't have any regrets.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Life
  • Done
  • Think

• Cultural anthropology is not valuable because it uncovers the archaic in the psychological sense. It is valuable because it is constantly rediscovering the normal.

  

  Edward Sapir

• The truth is I was nicely brought up and taught not to show my rage even though it was building up inside.

  

  Andrea McLean
  • Up
  • Truth

• Growing up, I listened to a lot of American singer/songwriters, so a lot of Tom Waits, Paul Simon - also Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan. And bands like Vampire Weekend.

  

  George Ezra
  • Up
  • American
  • Growing

• I never watch the dailies. What I usually do is have a look at the rough or final cut, and I just get something from the story. Sometimes I start composing even before the director has shot anything. The dailies don't help me at all.

  

  Ennio Morricone
  • Help

• Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.

  

  Charles W. Chesnutt
  • Control
  • Evil

• Mumbai is home to us. Medina was born in Munich because Roya's family lives in Germany and she had five sisters to help her while I was travelling for work.

  

  Adnan Sami
  • Work
  • Family
  • Home

• I started getting into Internet technologies and computers. I wasn't especially interested in being a musician, but I wound up finding my way back to being interested in music through computers.

  

  Eric Avery Jane's Addiction
  • Up
  • Music

• The ultimate storyteller is Shakespeare, who was able to get the 'groundlings' to laugh at his bawdy humor and storylines but could still be studied by scholars to this day for the complexity of his language, meter, and symbolism. That's the real guy.

  

  Jon Favreau
  • Real
  • Guy

• When I moved from Cambridge, I donated all my fiction. I carefully cut out pages the authors had autographed for me. I didn't want those autographed books showing up on eBay.

  

  Lois Lowry
  • Up

• If the president of the country is not actually saying something, allowing equality to happen, how could you expect to counsel kids not to bully other kids? If they're not seeing that their society sees gay people as equals, how could you tell them what they're doing is wrong? With all this stuff going on, with the "Don't ask, don't tell" and things like that, we are second-class citizens, definitely. It just seems to me that it's hypocritical for us as a culture to say, "Bullying is a terrible thing," when really, they are just reflecting what the society is doing.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • People
  • Country
  • Kids

• I never for a moment considered killing myself, because it wouldn't have achieved anything.

  

  Sebastian Faulks
  • Moments
  • Killing

• We have scarcely gotten home ... when our children's sneezes greet us, skinned knees bleed after waiting all day to do so. There is the bellyache and the burned-out basement bulb, the stalled car and the incontinent cat. The windows frost, the toilets sweat, the body of our spouse is one cold shoulder and the darkness of our bedroom is soon full of the fallen shadows of our failures.

  

  William H. Gass
  • Time
  • Men
  • Home

• Me.

  

  Hank Aaron

• I have found a shaft, going 29 meters [95 feet, approximately] vertically down into the ground, exactly halfway between the Chefren Pyramid and the Sphinx. At the bottom, which was filled with water, we have found a burial chamber with four pillars. In the middle is a large granite sarcophagus which I expect to be the grave of Osiris, the god.

  

  Zahi Hawass
  • God
  • Water

• The world is only one poor harvest away from chaos. We are so close to the edge that politically destabilising food prices could come at any time

  

  Robert Zoellick
  • World
  • Poor
  • Chaos

• A little drowsing cat is an image of perfect beatitude.

  

  Jules François Felix Fleury-Husson
  • Cat
  • Image
  • Beatitude