Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
My bad head cannot adjust itself to the way things are.... If I want to depict spring, it has to be in wintertime; if I want to describe a beautiful landscape, I must be enclosed within walls; and I have said a hundred times that if I were put in the Bastille, there I would paint a picture of liberty.
Quotes to Explore
-
I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
-
I'm from Iowa Falls, Iowa. My dad was a small-town lawyer, and my mom was a pharmacist. She worked at Swartz Drug. I have five older brothers.
-
I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
-
I'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor.
-
News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something that can inform you or something that actually negatively impacts society.
-
I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
-
People will say, 'Just one picture please.' That is how it starts. There is just one picture and then somebody else wants another. And when I say 'No' I feel guilty.
-
Cynicism is humor in ill health.
-
We shook up the industry with our landscape-changing deal to acquire Time Warner, the logical next step in our strategy to bring together world-class content with best-in-class distribution which will drive innovation and more choice for consumers.
-
I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'
-
'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.
-
Creative people are more prone to depression.
-
You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
-
For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
-
Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.
-
I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my father I wanted to eat cheeseburgers.
-
To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
-
Whenever anything went wrong at home, because I was the only boy, I would get blamed for it straight away. Girls stick together.
-
Follow the truth of the way. Reflect upon it. Make it your own. Live it. It will always sustain you.
-
Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not.
-
Women are not all single-issue voters.
-
There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
-
Politics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents.
-
My bad head cannot adjust itself to the way things are.... If I want to depict spring, it has to be in wintertime; if I want to describe a beautiful landscape, I must be enclosed within walls; and I have said a hundred times that if I were put in the Bastille, there I would paint a picture of liberty.
