Charles de Montesquieu Quotes

The less men think, the more they talk.

Charles de Montesquieu

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• Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.

  

  Larry Elder
  • People
  • Work
  • Profit

• Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.

  

  R. W. Apple, Jr.
  • Best
  • Politicians
  • Seriously

• My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Desire
  • Justice
  • Passionate

• I dig all kinds of competition.

  

  Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe
  • Competition
  • Kinds
  • Dig

• I've always dreamed of having a large family.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Family
  • Always
  • Large Family

• The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • People
  • High
  • Day

• You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • You
  • Expect
  • Popularity

• I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Time
  • Words
  • Stop

• It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Important
  • Partner
  • Tea

• I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Very
  • Talk
  • Well

• I'm not an ardent feminist - well, maybe I am an ardent feminist. I just roll my eyes at the way women are constantly used and how sensitive men are about photographs of themselves.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Men
  • Women
  • Eyes

• I've been getting pulled from newspapers for my entire career.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Career
  • Been
  • Getting

• It was all men, and there I was prancing around in gowns that barely got past the censors.

  

  Karen Morley
  • Men
  • Past
  • Got

• I wrote a lot of 'Red Queen' wrapped in a blanket, cramped up while watching the snow come down.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Up
  • Red
  • Snow

• When I am with my family, then I can just sort of switch off. It's kind of weird, because I go back and I go into this bedroom that I have had since I was a teenager. It is like this parallel universe, because one minute I am on the red carpet and then the next I am hiding out in this room I have had since I was 15.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Family
  • Universe
  • Weird

• I was madly in love with Elvis Presley. Dad wasn't into it at all, at least not for himself as a performer. He used to say, 'Mr. Cole does not rock n' roll.'

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Love
  • Dad
  • Rock

• If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Why
  • Sports
  • Matter

• You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

  

  Pamela Hansford Johnson
  • You
  • Wife
  • Devil

• I hate being manipulated by song. Don't tell me what I should be feeling. I don't want cellos or violins to be telling me that I should be bawling right now.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Song
  • Feeling
  • Hate

• I needed to feed my family. I read a couple of the episodes. How can you keep on doing the same thing?

  

  Lloyd Bridges
  • Family
  • Couple

• Money is multiplied in practical value depending on the number of W's you control in your life: what you do, when you do it, where you do it, and with whom you do it.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Money
  • Control
  • Number

• I work in a studio with lots of young people, most of whom are my former students. We delight in trading YouTube videos! We all stop working to watch them. I'm totally addicted to anything with kittens and puppies, but 'Very Scared Kid' is one of my favorites.

  

  Marilyn Minter
  • People
  • Work
  • Stop

• When I was young, all the politicians looked like ancient Latin teachers or greengrocers. They were mumbly, stumbly men with their hair blowing in their eyes, walking into trees, opening the wrong door. They had no idea how to present themselves.

  

  Dylan Moran
  • Men
  • Eyes
  • Present

• The less men think, the more they talk.

  

  Charles de Montesquieu
  • Men