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Jean Nouvel

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JOHN BETJEMAN One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
WALLACE STEVENS Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me ...
JOHN BETJEMAN Too liberal self-accusations are generally but so many traps for acquittal with applause
SAMUEL RICHARDSON I hate the world. Everything comes into it so clean and goes out so dirty. (from COVER CHARGE - curr...
CORNELL WOOLRICH Why not touch things that we hate and turn them upside down and inside out?
ALBER ELBAZ I loved the fall collection because it's really luxury for everyday. There are so many different way...
CYNTHIA STEFFE You know,” she stammered, resenting the way her body reacted to his touch with fireworks and songb...
JENNIFER BONDS I love and admire the American culture and the American dream. I learnt so many things about the Ame...
DIEGO DELLA VALLE If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem.
FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Too many people hate the people that AIDS most affects: gay people and people of color. I do not mea...
LARRY KRAMER How does fear become so powerful? We can’t see it. We can’t touch it, yet it gets its claws in u...
GENA SHOWALTER He let the guy touch him with too many punches.
DANNY SMITH You lose sight of things... and when you travel, everything balances out.
DARANNA GIDEL The hardest part for so long was learning how to shut my own doors. You taught me to hate so many th...
LAURA KESSLER You can't stand for too many things. You can't use the bully pulpit for too many things. So,...
MEG WHITMAN Sometimes I think he overdoes it. If you think too much in this game you stop reacting to it. He's g...
JOE TORRE It's nice to go and be a guest on a television sitcom. It pays well; it's easy because gener...
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI You young things are too easily persuaded by the touch of lips.
SCOTT WESTERFELD I cannot tell you much about the picture- it depends on so many things, the first of which that come...
BASIL RATHBONE i want so much to touch you
where my hands cannot.
AVA. Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
ABRAHAM COWLEY If I am not the legal resident of the apartment you cannot evict me. You cannot evict Mrs. Tuttle, w...
SHIRLEY JACKSON If theater is ritual, then dance is too... It's as if the threads connecting us to the rest of the w...
PAULO COELHO Hmm. Stick with white, so you can pull it out again later and do something with it, like wear it und...
BRIAN PRIMEAUX When Shakespeare begins his exposition thus he generally at first makes people talk about the hero, ...
ANDREW COYLE BRADLEY I don't have ADD, but I only like to pay attention to the things I like to pay attention to, and...
JONATHAN AMES I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing...
EMMA GOLDMAN Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things.
OLIVER HUDSON We do hear perhaps too many accolades generally aimed at people like Steve Jobs. We have to remember...
IAN ANDERSON I hate and love - wherefore I cannot tell, but by my tortures know the fact too well
CATULLUS Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.
REM KOOLHAAS One of the things we hate most of all is being told, “I told you so” and one of the things we ca...
KEN O. ELDIB I never talk about 'Harry Potter' because I think that would rob children of something that&...
ALAN RICKMAN There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man. -Jean Giraudoux.
JEAN GIRAUDOUX So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortun...
HENRY GEORGE I'm not so in love with material things that I'll do anything for money. That allows me the ...
ESTHER ROLLE Women are like sparkling diamonds, if you let too many hands touch it, not only will it get dirty wi...
NORHAFSAH HAMID The time will come when you will hate the sight of a mirror.
UNKNOWN The investors must stop and think, ... Say you want to buy an apartment but you are told this apartm...
VIKTOR PINCHUK The kiss, and what came later at my apartment when I helped clean you up. That was…interesting.”...
PAIGE TYLER When I was a boy, there wasn't too many after school activities out there, like the Boy Scouts. Now ...
DAVE BALTES I loved the fall collection because it’s really luxury for everyday. There are so many different w...
CYNTHIA STEFFE I loved the fall collection because it's really luxury for everyday. There are so many different way...
CYNTHIA STEFFE Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. ...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside thi...
SARAH BRIGHTMAN There are so many difficult things we're living through in the world today, so many horrible eve...
GLORIA ESTEFAN And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because...
ERYKAH BADU We can become so insensitive to the Spirit's prodding that we become too idle, too self absorbed and...
WILLIAM BRANKS Technology is such a broad kind of term, it really applies to so many things, from the electric ligh...
JEFF BRIDGES I like to put on hardcore when I have to clean my apartment, which I hate to do, but it's motivation...
PETER STEELE My house is solar powered. I tell Republicans, you can hate the subsidies - I hate the subsidies, to...
THOMAS MASSIE I was in way too deep. I was cut in so many places that I felt like I was bleeding out from every pa...
ALISA MULLEN There seems to be such a laziness in - and I hate to use this phrase - the modern world. Everything ...
CHRIS WARE Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love ca...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love c...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love ca...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love ca...
MARTIN Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love ca...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. I will touch My mouth unto the leaves, caressingly; And so wilt thou. Thus, from these lips o...
J.G. SAXE The Only thing wrong with internet, is that you cannot touch it.
MATT SMITH With the School Fire, you had so many structures ignite because they generally had continuous grasse...
JACK COHEN This is why it hurts the way it hurts.

You have too many words in your head. There are to...
PLEASEFINDTHIS People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong.Why not try and see positive things, to j...
THICH NHAT HANH It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is ...
JEAN NOUVEL Art should be created for life, not for the museum.
JEAN NOUVEL I don't like the idea that one hotel could be better than another. In any city, I try to find a ...
JEAN NOUVEL Never let the horns and woodwinds out of your sight; if you can hear them at all, they are too loud.
RICHARD STRAUSS The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitio...
BANKSY I urge you children to be patient with your parents. If they seem to be out of touch on such vital i...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Queen Victoria will be a classically-styled Cunard queen, offering the very best of our heritage, al...
CAROL MARLOW I don't know how you can clean someone else's toilet. I can barely touch my own.
FRANCES MCDORMAND I loved the fall collection because it’s really luxury for everyday. There are so many different wa...
CYNTHIA STEFFE You have to do many things yourself. Things that you cannot delegate.
NADINE GRAMLING I'm sorry! I really am! I wanted to get out of this place! I want to live! I want to get away from h...
LOUIS L'AMOUR Any day of the week I would choose to be "out" with others and in touch with myself... then to be "i...
PORTIA NELSON People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to ...
NHAT HANH People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to ...
THICH NHAT HANH People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to ...
THICH NHAT HANH People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong...Why not try and see positive things, to...
THICH NHAT HANH You Romans wash too much to be true men. Washing is for women, to clean our breeches and our vests. ...
ANDREW LEVKOFF Earth cannot show so brave a sight, / As when a single soul does fence / The batteries of alluring s...
ANDREW MARVELL I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was bor...
CAT STEVENS I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was bor...
YUSUF ISLAM I like to put on hardcore when I have to clean my apartment, which I hate to do, but it's motiva...
PETER STEELE For the first time, I lived alone... in a luxury apartment on Sunset Strip. For a few days I loved t...
PATTY DUKE The stars look like they're so close, you could reach out and touch them. But you can't. Sometimes t...
KAMI GARCIA For the person who tortured me in jail. For the person who tortured the many of
my followers a...
AHMAD MOFTIZADEH Like any other person who reads a ton of books, I hate many, many books. Oh, how I hate them. I have...
SARAH REES BRENNAN Even in rain, we can be facinated with sensations of beauty in the world, sight, sound, smell, and d...
ROBERT E. BERG I never dreamed I would have a job in which so many people could touch me and I could touch them.
RICHARD DAWSON Clean hands are better than full ones in the sight of God.
UNKNOWN Being raised in a developing country opened my eyes to so much I cannot tolerate. In Colombia, educa...
SHAKIRA I hate saying corny things like 'traveling incognito.' But when I' with somebody that's corny, I alw...
J.D. SALINGER I hate shaving. It's much easier to just do a little stubble, but my wife and daughter like it w...
PATRICK DEMPSEY Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart...
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JEAN BAUDRILLARD To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form ...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of af...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
JEAN ANOUILH We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasu...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
JEAN TOOMER Every woman is like a time-zone. She is a nocturnal fragment of your journey. She brings you unflagg...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be co...
JEAN ANOUILH The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the abs...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
JEAN COCTEAU