Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orleans Quotes

One who no longer wishes to laugh had best marry in France; they will soon find that it is no laughing matter.

Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orleans

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• Americans think Soviets are so grim. I want them to see that they can smile.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Think
  • Want
  • Smile

• Brunch, for me, is an extended breakfast that should be enjoyed whenever you have time properly to engage in cooking and eating.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Time
  • Cooking
  • Breakfast

• I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Real
  • Relationship

• Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • World
  • Space

• I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Ability
  • Ego
  • Confident

• God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Good
  • God
  • Evil

• If we were poor, we didn't know it 'cause I guess you don't miss what you never had. So, you know, we made do with whatever. We used to make our own toys, and we used to play with spinning tops and marbles. A pocket full of marbles, and you were rich - you didn't worry about no money.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Money
  • Worry
  • Rich

• Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Nature
  • Everything
  • Hurry

• It's like the old rule-if you introduce a gun into the first act of a play, it's going to be used in the third act. So if you do a movie about criminals, you have to accept there's going to be Some action.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Movie
  • Action
  • Gun

• Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • People
  • Music
  • Literature

• I've decided to tell my kids things like: 'I love the way each of you tilted back your heads when you laughed.' I will give them specific stuff they can grasp.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Kids
  • Like
  • Laughed

• True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Life
  • Music
  • Country

• Stuart Murdoch is a really special human being - really creative, but also really kind and gentle.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Kind
  • Creative
  • Special

• Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
  • Vision
  • First
  • Filmmaking

• I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Water
  • Never
  • Drink

• I'm a big fan of the poet Mary Jo Salter, and although she doesn't need to be discovered at all - she's widely admired and anthologized and extremely accomplished - I wish she were a household name.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • She
  • Wish
  • Name

• I really like to cook.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • Like
  • Really
  • Cook

• If you make a decision to fight for future of your own country you have to consider all the consequences.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Country
  • Future
  • Decision

• Movies, I don't really get the bad guys. In theater, I get more bad guys. Both audiences and directors are more willing... to allow people to stretch. In movies, you do one thing, and then that's their reference.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
  • Bad
  • Movies

• When you are totally depressed, you should try giggling. Just make yourself laugh. Force yourself to laugh.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Yourself
  • Try
  • Laugh

• It's true that the French have a certain obsession with sex, but it's a particularly adult obsession. France is the thriftiest of all nations; to a Frenchman sex provides the most economical way to have fun. The French are a logical race.

  

  Anita Loos
  • True
  • Fun
  • Sex

• If you say the word amnesty - the 'A-word,' so to speak - it's DOA. If there's even a hint of amnesty in my district, it's dead on arrival.

  

  Randy Weber
  • You
  • Speak
  • Say

• Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • Art
  • Desire
  • Destroy

• One who no longer wishes to laugh had best marry in France; they will soon find that it is no laughing matter.

  

  Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orleans
  • Laugh
  • France
  • Marry