Noel-Antoine Pluche Quotes

It is not always the most brilliant speculations nor the choice of the most exotic materials that is most profitable. I prefer Monsieur de Reaumur busy exterminating moths by means of an oily fleece; or increasing fowl production by making them hatch without the help of their mothers, than Monsieur Bemouilli absorbed in algebra, or Monsieur Leibniz calculating the various advantages and disadvantages of the possible worlds.

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• I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Doing

• Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Great
  • You
  • Learning

• Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.

  

  Laura Robson
  • Better
  • Playing
  • Getting

• When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.

  

  Kajol
  • Mother
  • Dying
  • Gift

• An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Money

• I won't allow magazines in the house. When I was younger, I wanted to have my hair cut like so-and-so in the class above me at school, not somebody in a magazine. You see young girls trying to dress like so-and-so because they've seen lots of pictures of them.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • School
  • Girls
  • Pictures

• If they can go out and buy my albums, I can at least make the sacrifice to holler at the few people who call. A lot of times I'm busy so they'll get my voice mail. And if I can speak to them and I have time, I always text back. Because I think that's very important.

  

  Flo Rida
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Australia

• I have an outdoor kitchen at home in Georgia, and I try to never eat inside.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Home
  • Try
  • Kitchen

• There are always lessons that can be learned from another manufacturer. You can learn from their successes and from their mistakes also. But you cannot replicate; you can only learn.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • You
  • Learn
  • Mistakes

• People say, 'You have inspired me, you've given me courage...' They've gone so far as to say, 'You've changed my life!' And I would come back and say to my husband, 'I can't understand it - what kind of poor little life did she have if I had to come and change it?'

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Life
  • She

• I think the most important thing for your life is the way you interpret things. Having an optimistic point of view is so important - your life will be so bright.

  

  Yu Chui Yee
  • Life
  • Important
  • Think

• I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don't know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Life
  • Great
  • Child

• I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Men
  • Women
  • Think

• My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • College
  • Training
  • Theatre

• We need no chieftain; such folk eat more than their share.

  

  Jack Vance

• The sky itself is the eighth color of the rainbow, spread over the whole sky for us, all the time.

  

  Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Time
  • Color
  • Sky

• I went to high school in Ellicott City, Maryland, and I felt pretty ambivalent about the whole thing. It just took time away from my doing things on the Internet - like creating clans in Quake II or starting a Web design nonprofit. In school, I was just a kid. Online, I had authority.

  

  Alexis Ohanian
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.

  

  Lucy Liu
  • Work
  • Hand
  • Hurt

• If we long for our planet to be important, there is something we can do about it. We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • World
  • Important
  • Long

• My restless spirit never could endureTo brood so long upon one luxury,Unless it did, though fearfully, espyA hope beyond the shadow of a dream.

  

  John Keats
  • Long
  • Hope
  • Dream

• It's a passion when you're doing it for other people and you're doing it for the people around you making the film and the people who are going to see the film, and the giving. When you start thinking about you doing it for some sort of self-gain, then I think it becomes an obsession. It becomes a negative experience.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Passion
  • Film
  • Negative

• It is not always the most brilliant speculations nor the choice of the most exotic materials that is most profitable. I prefer Monsieur de Reaumur busy exterminating moths by means of an oily fleece; or increasing fowl production by making them hatch without the help of their mothers, than Monsieur Bemouilli absorbed in algebra, or Monsieur Leibniz calculating the various advantages and disadvantages of the possible worlds.

  

  Noel-Antoine Pluche
  • World
  • Mother
  • Science