Cyrano de Bergerac Quotes

Even though they, themselves, were material beings, they could show themselves to us only by taking on bodies that our senses were able to perceive.

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• A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Life
  • Good
  • Happy

• My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Process
  • August
  • Thursday

• To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Truth
  • Beautiful
  • Truth Is

• It is key that Kansas Citians make the call as to what kind of airport they want.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Want
  • Kind
  • Key

• Our eyes reflect light. Better that the lips are more like a rose petal.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Light
  • Eyes
  • Rose

• I made nothing happen very slowly.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Nothing
  • Very
  • Happen

• I hate Alzheimer's. It is one of the most awful things because, here is a loved one, this is the woman or man that you have loved for 20, 30, 40 years, and suddenly, that person is gone. They're gone. They are gone.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Man
  • Hate
  • Woman

• The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • American
  • Know

• Chances are you're using overeating as a way to escape yourself. It's an attempt not to feel or think about what you really need to feel and face.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Think
  • Yourself
  • Escape

• I always go to sleep on the plane. Then I try and stay up whenever I get where I'm going to and get straight into the time zone I'm in.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Up
  • Time
  • Sleep

• Well, to take me from where I was, and the life I was leading, to the life I lead now with the church and with the Lord and with Jesus Christ, it's a total, total turn–around.

  

  Pat Summerall
  • Life
  • Church
  • Lord

• You can't second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Second-Guess

• In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.

  

  Cal Thomas
  • Character
  • Broken
  • Laws

• I actually want to do a theatrical adaptation of 'Hateful Eight' because I actually like the idea of other actors having a chance to play my characters and see what happens from that.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Want
  • Play
  • Chance

• You know, one of these things that happened in the '60s and '70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with computer culture.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Culture
  • You
  • Know

• In the military, a combatant command is the ultimate job. It's the pointy tip of the spear, overseeing the people carrying the rifles and flying the aircraft.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • People
  • Job
  • Military

• I had practiced with the team, and the first scheduled game was with the University of Missouri. They made it quite clear to the Army that they would not play a team with a black player on it. Instead of telling me the truth, the Army gave me leave to go home.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Home
  • Truth
  • Game

• If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

  

  O. Henry
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• My advice to the tea party freshmen: Slow the galloping horses to a trot. Big government was built over decades; it can't be dismantled in a year, especially when Democrats control the White House.

  

  Ari Fleischer
  • House
  • Control
  • Party

• Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make Of hammered gold and gold enameling To keep a drowsy Emperor awake; Or set upon a golden bough to sing To lords and ladies of Byzantium Of what is past, or passing, or to come.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Nature
  • Past
  • Gold

• South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Small
  • Bitter
  • Africa

• We live in downtown Manhattan and we have pretty big windows that looked right at the World Trade Center. I was home along with Kai and we watched it all happen. I was holding him in my arms and we were looking out the window when the second plane hit.

  

  Jennifer Connelly
  • World
  • Live
  • Home

• Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history.

  

  Katharine Lee Bates
  • Up
  • History
  • Death

• Even though they, themselves, were material beings, they could show themselves to us only by taking on bodies that our senses were able to perceive.

  

  Cyrano de Bergerac