Marie Antoinette Quotes
Qu'ils mangent de la brioche. Let them eat cake. On being told that her people had no bread. Attributed to Marie-Antoinette, but remark is much older. Rousseau refers in his Confessions, 1740, to a similar remark, as a well-known saying. Others attribute the remark to the wife of Louis XIV.Marie Antoinette
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
Carlos Fuentes -
I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.
Quentin Blake -
I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
Parker Posey -
No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair -
The first complaint we hear from everyone is: 'Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother's eating for lunch?' But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled - you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share.
Jack Dorsey -
Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
Victor LaValle
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When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South Central Los Angeles, and I always felt that when I got to a stage where I could provide similar opportunities to kids then I would do that.
Warren Moon -
I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
Isaac Asimov -
I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
Tatyana Ali -
What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
E. F. Benson -
I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
Sam Kinison -
Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.
Dan Hill
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
Ramakrishna -
So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
Vince McMahon -
I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
B. B. King -
Just wearing all black comes from Johnny Cash. I'm on the road so much that if I wear all black, my clothes never get dirty. You can't tell if I've worn the same shirt twice.
G-Eazy -
I don't mean to diminish the job, it's a good job and a real pressure job. But I don't think a relief pitcher should ever be the most valuable player of a league. We only play in maybe half of the games. Being a relief pitcher means part-time employment. We're bench players, and bench players shouldn't be M.V.P.
Dan Quisenberry -
We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
Natalie Wood
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With what dope I got I think it fills me in pretty well.
Dashiell Hammett -
Politics are private. I don't understand people who try to convince you to join one party or another.
Carolina Herrera -
My popularity, my happiness and sense of worth depend to no small extent upon my skill in dealing with people.
Dale Carnegie -
If I could still play, I would be trying. It's been 15 years.
Joe Montana -
I commissioned this artist to make these silver tomahawks by hand. Larry Sellers, who plays Cloud Dancing on the show, blessed and cleansed them and all.
Joe Lando -
Qu'ils mangent de la brioche. Let them eat cake. On being told that her people had no bread. Attributed to Marie-Antoinette, but remark is much older. Rousseau refers in his Confessions, 1740, to a similar remark, as a well-known saying. Others attribute the remark to the wife of Louis XIV.
Marie Antoinette