There's a point of poverty at which the spirit isn't with the body all the time. It finds the body r...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more ...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed a...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE Man hardly comes in more than two varieties, wherever he is, whatever he does: workers and pimps ......
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march p...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive....
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's ye...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One's stupefied by it. To get ri...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the re...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE This instinctive repulsion which tradespeople inspire in men of sensitive feeling is one of the very...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-b...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those wh...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word o...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE From up high where I was, you could shout anything you liked at them. I tried. They made me sick, th...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE Living, just by itself --what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there al...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve th...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE When you're not used to comfort and good things to eat, you're intoxicated by them in no time. Truth...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march p...
LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE Between the penis and the mathematical one . . . there exists nothing. Nothing! It is a vacuum. ...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a wo...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's 'y...
LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word o...
LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the re...
LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more ...
LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-b...
LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE Living, just by itself / what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there al...
LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE The poetry of heroism appeals irresitably to those who don't go to a war, and even more so to those ...
LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE There's a point of poverty at which the spirit isn't with the body all the time. It finds the body r...
LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One's stupefied by it. To get ri...
LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive....
LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE If you aren't rich you should always look useful.
LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.
LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE The more one is hated, I find, the happier one is.
LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.
LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers mar...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE In my room I'd barely closed my eyes when the blonde from the movie house came along and sang her wh...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CéLINE We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word o...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CéLINE I hadn't found out yet that mankind consists of two very different races, the rich and the poor. It ...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CéLINE Why kid ourselves, people have nothing to say to one another, they all talk about their own troubles...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CéLINE When it becomes really impossible to get away and sleep, then the will to live evaporates of its own...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CéLINE To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the re...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CéLINE Not much music left inside us for life to dance to. Our youth has gone to the ends of the earth to d...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CéLINE The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost eve...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CéLINE If you aren't rich you should always look useful.
LOUIS-FERDINAND CéLINE I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majorit...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CéLINE People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them.
LOUIS-FERDINAND CéLINE Of course the people in the metro didn't see a thing!...what a joke! petrified ratlets! but they'll ...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CéLINE La plupart des gens ne meurent qu'au dernier moment ; d'autres commencent et s'y prennent vingt ans ...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CéLINE The serious scientific public trusted him implicitly and consequently had no need to read him. If th...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CéLINE There's no tyrant like a brain.
LOUIS-FERDINAND CéLINE S'ils se mettent à penser à vous, c'est à votre torture qu'ils pensent qu'ils songent aussitôt l...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CéLINE You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past.
LOUIS-FERDINAND CéLINE Tu finiras sûrement par le trouver le truc qui leur fait si peur, à eux tous, à tous ces salauds ...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CéLINE I've got plenty of courage, as much as you! ... Only, if you want the whole truth ... everything, ab...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CéLINE One little second of pleasure, a whole life of pain...my mother knew nothing of the pleasures of a g...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CéLINE I don't know if the camera likes me, but I do like the camera.
CELINE DION There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beau...
CELINE DION Some people can't stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I come out of it, I&#...
CELINE DION I looked in the audience. There were no strangers. Everybody was singing and cheering and hugging. T...
CELINE DION The craziest thing I've done is cut my hair blonde and short a couple of years ago. And people r...
CELINE DION I have become a housewife and there is no better job.
CELINE DION The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially the more success you have, the more you lo...
CELINE DION I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War...
CELINE BUCKENS I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War...
CELINE BUCKENS Because your the world where I belong.
CELINE DION I'm everything I am Because You Loved Me.
CELINE DION It's the moment you think you can't that you realize you can.
CELINE DION I wish we were all naked all the time. I have always believed it's what's underneath that counts. If...
CELINE DION We need to serve our country, and be there right now to rescue the rest of the people. We need the c...
CELINE DION How come it's so easy to send planes in another country to kill everyone in a second, to destroy liv...
CELINE DION There's people still there, waiting to be rescued, and for me it's not acceptable.
CELINE DION Oh, they're stealing 20 pair of jeans or they're stealing television sets. Who cares? They're not go...
CELINE DION craps table and a slot machine.
CELINE DION When you want it the most, there's no easy way out.When you're ready to go, and your heart's left in...
CELINE DION Its the moment you think you can't that you realize you can.
CELINE DION All players need to focus on what was promised four years ago: reform of world trade rules that boos...
CELINE CHARVERIAT This proposal, ... would allow them to get away with doing next to nothing in return for some very p...
CELINE CHARVERIAT The talks have moved forward a few inches but the question is who will benefit? Issues of vital impo...
CELINE CHARVERIAT These talks were meant to deliver for development, ... It's not good enough for the big players to s...
CELINE CHARVERIAT What looks on the surface like a genuine attempt to move the talks forward is in fact a very clever ...
CELINE CHARVERIAT [Oxfam, the international aid agency, said in a press release that] renewed deadlock in world trade ...
CELINE CHARVERIAT Every extra delay reduces the chances of a deal being done that will lift people out of poverty. Pro...
CELINE CHARVERIAT Every extra delay reduces the chances of a deal being done that will lift people out of poverty, ......
CELINE CHARVERIAT This gives a lie to the French argument that it uses EU subsidies to support its small farmers,
CELINE CHARVERIAT I have records in gold, in platinum, I have two Oscars, I have Grammys and so on.
CELINE DION The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially, the more success you have, the more you l...
CELINE DION I started at 5 years old in the kitchen table with my family supporting me. I know where I'm fro...
CELINE DION Since I was a little child, my nose - I think it's too big.
CELINE DION On her baby: He's 16 months old and he eats soap and paper. What's going on with kids?
CELINE DION You know, some people are stealing and they're making a big deal out of it,
CELINE DION I'm not thinking with my head, I'm talking with my heart.
CELINE DION The way it was said makes it sound like I'm not singing live at my shows, which is not true. In the ...
CELINE DION It's All Coming Back to Me Now,
CELINE DION On her son again: I smell his feet; they have a scent that's a bit like vinegar.
CELINE DION When I do something, I do it all the way. I've been in show business so many years. I've achieved a ...
CELINE DION Because You Loved Me,
CELINE DION I would love to make a film, ... I want an Oscar!
CELINE DION You thought you look smart, but you are merely the stupidest person I’ve ever seen.. You thought y...
CELINE CHEW You thought you are great, yes you are! The greatest person when it comes to bad mouthing and creati...
CELINE CHEW Bad friends are like tumors, removed them and you'll be alive and kicking once again!
CELINE CHEW I often buy myself presents. Sometimes I will spend ?100,000 in one day in a posh boutique.
CELINE DION My child was not only carried by me, but by the universe.
CELINE DION This thing has really upset me, ... Since that story came out, everyone has been congratulating me, ...
CELINE DION I'll be a Quebecker-Canadian. I'm from Quebec, and every time I go to a country, I say that....
CELINE DION Before, singing was my life, my vocal chords used to lead the way. Now, I'm in-charge.
CELINE DION Well, I love clothes.
CELINE BUCKENS I'm a big fan of Michael Morpurgo.
CELINE BUCKENS I don't just sing for free. It's my work. You're paid for what you do. And I work hard.
CELINE DION I'm very comfortable in my skin.
CELINE DION I love to sing and perform. It is what I do and love. It completes my life.
CELINE DION Don't be so familiar and so much into the details. Keep people dreaming. Close the window, and m...
CELINE DION I've never been cool - and I don't care.
CELINE DION Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have ...
CELINE DION There's been nothing but discipline, discipline, discipline all my life.
CELINE DION It's really all about family, love and the children for me. I work at that every day.
CELINE DION I often buy myself presents. Sometimes I will spend $100,000 in one day in a posh boutique.
CELINE DION When you are surrounded by children, the child in you comes back.
CELINE DION It seems strange to say this, but it is true: Coming back to Vegas to work is like going on vacation...
CELINE DION My feet are definitely more grounded than before. And I know that I'm not holding onto a dream. ...
CELINE DION I was not a good-lookin' girl. I was extremely skinny. I wasn't pretty. I wasn't cool.
CELINE DION It is possible for YA heroines to go an entire book without discussing their love lives.
CELINE KIERNAN Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.
FERDINAND FOCH My countrymen: we have reached a turning point in our history. The choice is yours. Shall we venture...
FERDINAND MARCOS The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
FERDINAND FOCH Good design should be honest.
FERDINAND PORSCHE If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.
FERDINAND PORSCHE A formally harmonious product needs no decoration; it should be elevated through pure form.
FERDINAND PORSCHE During my career several people have tried to push me out the door... Nobody has succeeded yet.
FERDINAND PIECH In my career quite a few people have tried to force me out, but so far no one has succeeded.
FERDINAND PIECH If you fire people, you fire customers.
FERDINAND PIECH What the world needs now is more Americans. The U.S. is the first nation on earth deliberately dedic...
FERDINAND MOUNT We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique posi...
FERDINAND MOUNT The president is being denounced for not taking the kind of pre-emptive action in Afghanistan that h...
FERDINAND MOUNT Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connect...
FERDINAND MOUNT In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
FERDINAND MOUNT For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because i...
FERDINAND MOUNT America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.
FERDINAND MOUNT No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as...
FERDINAND MOUNT I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to me...
FERDINAND MOUNT Something is happening to Britain and the British. Or has happened. We are said to be passing throug...
FERDINAND MOUNT According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed wit...
FERDINAND MOUNT It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it...
FERDINAND MOUNT A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and indep...
FERDINAND MOUNT Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell ...
FERDINAND MOUNT Defenders of the status quo will argue that this system has served us well over the centuries, that ...
FERDINAND MOUNT All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective ...
FERDINAND MOUNT We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government.
FERDINAND MOUNT For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in...
FERDINAND MOUNT One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
FERDINAND MOUNT Let us not be so naive as to think that revolution is just a matter of social or economic discontent...
FERDINAND MARCOS I am not afraid to go to jail.
FERDINAND MARCOS The challenge to Asia is to discard the dry, meatless bone of mysticism and fatalism.
FERDINAND MARCOS To write our constitution is for the past, the present, and the future to come together all at once ...
FERDINAND MARCOS Filipino talents and skills are becoming ubiquitous in many parts of the world. Returning Filipino w...
FERDINAND MARCOS Little boys have amazing minds.
FERDINAND MARCOS The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.
FERDINAND MARCOS What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.
FERDINAND MARCOS The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not...
FERDINAND MARCOS Freedom is not just declared; it is exercised.
FERDINAND MARCOS I do not care how brave a president is; I do not care how many medals he may wear. I do not care how...
FERDINAND MARCOS Nobody is impervious to misfortune.
FERDINAND MARCOS I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?
FERDINAND MARCOS The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate pu...
FERDINAND MARCOS I have been called brave in my time, but brave as I may have been against foreign invaders, I have n...
FERDINAND MARCOS Whatever be the challenges, whatever be the obstacles before us, I say to you as I say to everybody ...
FERDINAND MARCOS There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them...
FERDINAND MARCOS Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone...
FERDINAND MARCOS I'll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I'm going to fight for my dignity and my hon...
FERDINAND MARCOS Once a champion, always a champion.
FERDINAND MARCOS A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.
FERDINAND FOCH No study is possible on the battlefield.
FERDINAND FOCH The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
FERDINAND FOCH In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.
FERDINAND FOCH It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.
FERDINAND FOCH My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
FERDINAND FOCH A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
FERDINAND BUISSON We must not forget that chemical warfare will sooner or later bring in its wake bacteriological warf...
FERDINAND BUISSON From the day war conquered the skies, nothing could check its progress.
FERDINAND BUISSON My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat, situation excellent. I attack.
FERDINAND FOCH The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on t...
FERDINAND MAGELLAN "The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on ...
FERDINAND MAGELLAN Fiat justitia et pereat mundus.
Let justice be done, though the world perish.
FERDINAND I The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the mo...
FERDINAND MAGELLAN The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.
FERDINAND FOCH None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
FERDINAND FOCH These statements about torture, about alleged misuse of power and things like that, insulted the Fil...
FERDINAND MARCOS My friends in the opposition have forgotten that the constitution of the Philippines was amended in ...
FERDINAND MARCOS I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.
FERDINAND PORSCHE Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little lo...
FERDINAND MARCOS Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any r...
FERDINAND PORSCHE My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignit...
FERDINAND MARCOS History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then writ...
FERDINAND MARCOS We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.
FERDINAND MOUNT I came into the world at the same time as the auto, if you will.
FERDINAND PORSCHE The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms conson...
FERDINAND MARCOS