Cyrano de Bergerac Quotes
The priests had been told that I had dared to say that the moon was the world I came from and that their world was only a moon. They believed that constituted an adequately just pretext to condemn me to drowning, which was their way of exterminating atheists.
Quotes to Explore
-
We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible.
-
We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
-
We've got our football where no one wears anything and the guys are in little shorts and they beat the crap out of each other, and they can catch it and they can kick it, and it's the only place it's played in the world.
-
My work was entirely nonfiction.
-
I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
-
Having kids is something I want to see in my future - I hope.
-
We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
-
Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
-
I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
-
We believe the most significant long-term application of bitcoin may be reducing the upfront cost of internet-connected devices to make them more accessible for the developing world.
-
It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
-
It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.
-
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
-
Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage.
-
I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.
-
My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.
-
Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.
-
I was a confident, outgoing little boy. If you're an only child, you're living in a very linguistically adult world, and you've got to keep up. So I did. Maybe I was slightly annoying.
-
There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.
-
The way that I look at it is that, when we film for eight months straight for a new 'Jackass' movie, I know that I'm going to wind up with at least two broken bones. I don't know when it's going to happen, but you can't contemplate how you're going to fall and what's going to happen.
-
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
-
It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict, we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace.
-
The priests had been told that I had dared to say that the moon was the world I came from and that their world was only a moon. They believed that constituted an adequately just pretext to condemn me to drowning, which was their way of exterminating atheists.
