I wanted to write an adventure story, not, it's true, I really did. I shall have failed, that's all....
JEAN-MARIE G. LE CLéZIO La nuit, tout sent bon", disait Mondo.
"C'est parce qu'on ne voit pas", disait Thi Chin.
"...
JEAN-MARIE G. LE CLéZIO The fact is, that for the Huichol, and for all those who refuse, who are in flight, words and things...
JEAN-MARIE G. LE CLéZIO Un miros de sărac, un miros de violență, de necesitatea de a parveni.
JEAN-MARIE G. LE CLéZIO human beings, cans of living preserves
JEAN-MARIE G. LE CLéZIO [W]hat is one to say of the writer who lies when he writes that he is lying?
J.M.G. LE CLéZIO The world was a sick animal, a sort of huge cancerous tumour, a thing of bubbling liquids, whitish p...
J.M.G. LE CLéZIO All words are possible, then, all names. They rain down, all these words, they disintegrate into a p...
J.M.G. LE CLéZIO You don't mean to say that Hogan has turned into a woman? Why, yes, that's him all right, you can re...
J.M.G. LE CLéZIO [M]ay not literature (and, in particular, fiction) be considered a desperate and permanently thwarte...
J.M.G. LE CLéZIO Looking at the sky, he suddenly saw that it had become black. Then white again, but with great rippl...
J.M.G. LE CLéZIO The earth is neither fabulous nor paradisal. And therefore it is not hell.
J.M.G. LE CLéZIO I thought that to get to know a desert it was enough to have been there. I thought that to have seen...
J.M.G. LE CLéZIO There is no such thing as self-awareness. Imagine thought retreating into itself to think about itse...
J.M.G. LE CLéZIO Horror is not unimaginable, it has neither the face of a monster nor the bat-wings of a demon. It is...
J.M.G. LE CLéZIO Thinking! Thinking! The process should no longer be merely this feeble flurry of hailstones that rai...
J.M.G. LE CLéZIO He who writes books that aim to convince is a comedian, too, just a comedian. What has he got to off...
J.M.G. LE CLéZIO Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and ...
JEAN-MARIE LE PEN If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the...
JEAN-MARIE LE PEN The result is that you are now experiencing what we experienced in the war in Algeria: The Israeli g...
JEAN-MARIE LE PEN I'm not saying that the gas chambers didn't exist. I couldn't see them myself.
JEAN-MARIE LE PEN When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concent...
JEAN-MARIE LE PEN When Joan D' Arc was asked by her judges why as a Christian she did not love the British, she an...
JEAN-MARIE LE PEN As for me, even though I have been accused of anti-Semitism countless times, no one has ever heard m...
JEAN-MARIE LE PEN An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad.
JEAN-MARIE LE PEN You cannot speak on behalf of a nation when you have no mandate to do so.
JEAN-MARIE LE PEN The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier.
JEAN-MARIE LE PEN In recent years - before the intifada - there were three or four incidents of anti-Semitism a year, ...
JEAN-MARIE LE PEN Where deep and misty shadows float In forest's depths is heard thy note. Like a lost spirit, e...
MARIE LE BARON I was born on September 30, 1939, in Rosheim, a small medieval city of Alsace in France. My father, ...
JEAN-MARIE LEHN Receptor chemistry, the chemistry of artificial receptor molecules, may be considered a generalized ...
JEAN-MARIE LEHN I am the most un-French Frenchman you will ever meet.
JEAN-MARIE MESSIER In 1998, I set up and directed a research group at the Nanotechnology Institute newly created in the...
JEAN-MARIE LEHN Vivendi will be one of the very few top communications groups of the Internet age. We will have cust...
JEAN-MARIE MESSIER Science has nothing to do with any dogma. Science ceases to exist when there is a dogma.
JEAN-MARIE LEHN For me, skiing is a physical necessity. I have a need for risk.
JEAN-MARIE MESSIER My first scientific paper in 1961 reported an additivity rule for substituent-induced shifts of prot...
JEAN-MARIE LEHN Molecular chemistry, the chemistry of the covalent bond, is concerned with uncovering and mastering ...
JEAN-MARIE LEHN Try to cook so that it will surprise a little, agreeably and astonish slightly, without shocking.
JEAN MARIE AMAT There's more to it than really meets the eye. Our area is economically depressed. Our citizenry is b...
G. JEAN VERBOS It's extremely critical, due to the fact that the existing septic tanks were built in the early to m...
G. JEAN VERBOS The Gogebic Range Water Authority has been, over the last six years, seven years, growing by leaps a...
G. JEAN VERBOS The loan portion came from USDA Rural Development.
G. JEAN VERBOS They were under a consent degree from the MDEQ to do something about this problem, that's to build a...
G. JEAN VERBOS Right now we're working on funding for several projects. One is a new water system for Indianhead an...
G. JEAN VERBOS We did some work on their Tank Hill vault. Quite a few components went into the City of Wakefield.
G. JEAN VERBOS We're just completing Phase II, and with its completion the authority will have put in about $12 mil...
G. JEAN VERBOS If we have to build the wells and treatment plant, we're prepared to, but I'm very optimistic that w...
G. JEAN VERBOS Disclosure without therapy is the second rape of the child.
JEAN G. MOORE Just go on . . . and faith will soon return.
JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT If one looks at all closely at the middle of our own century, the events that occupy us, our customs...
JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT Though good faith should be banished from the rest of the world, it should be found in the mouths o...
JEAN II ("LE BON") I was born Jewish and so I remain, even if that's unacceptable for many. For me, the vocation of Isr...
JEAN MARIE CARDINAL LUSTIGER For me, this nomination was as if all of a sudden the crucifix began to wear a yellow star.
JEAN MARIE CARDINAL LUSTIGER Reading is a free practice. I think the readers are free to begin by the books where they want to. T...
J. M. G. LE CLEZIO The novelist, he's not a philosopher, not a technician of spoken language. He's someone who ...
J. M. G. LE CLEZIO A writer is not a prophet, is not a philosopher; he's just someone who is witness to what is aro...
J. M. G. LE CLEZIO I can understand better than most the contradiction between the idealistic civilisation and religiou...
J. M. G. LE CLEZIO I'm used to shifting languages because my father used to speak to us, to my brother and I, he us...
J. M. G. LE CLEZIO I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express t...
J. M. G. LE CLEZIO The writer, the poet, the novelist, are all creators. This does not mean that they invent language; ...
J. M. G. LE CLEZIO When I was a child, I grew up speaking French, I mean, in a French public school. So my first contac...
J. M. G. LE CLEZIO My English is closer to the literary English, and I'm not very familiar with jokes in English or...
J. M. G. LE CLEZIO I grew up in a Mauritian bubble in France... I had the feeling of not belonging, but still living wi...
J. M. G. LE CLEZIO I've always felt very much from a mixed culture - mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, ...
J. M. G. LE CLEZIO I don't have any office; I can write everywhere. So, I put a piece of paper on the table, and th...
J. M. G. LE CLEZIO To understand the hidden secret of the modern industrial world in which I find myself, I have to ret...
J. M. G. LE CLEZIO If I examine the circumstances which inspired me to write - and this is not mere self-indulgence, bu...
J. M. G. LE CLEZIO Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before e...
J. M. G. LE CLEZIO To act: that is what the writer would like to be able to do, above all. To act, rather than to bear ...
J. M. G. LE CLEZIO I enjoy very much being in a foreign country, in a new country, new place. And I enjoy also beginnin...
J. M. G. LE CLEZIO The brain is the cornerstone of virtually every facet of our lives. I wish we knew more.
TAN LE I am afraid of privilege, of ease, of entitlement.
TAN LE ! want to leverage the creativity of researchers across mathematics, statistics, data mining, comput...
TAN LE You don't just wake up one day with dementia or Alzheimer's; these conditions are developmen...
TAN LE I have stepped outside my comfort zone enough to know that, yes, the world does fall apart, but not ...
TAN LE America and its demons, Europe and its ghost.
LE MONDE The losses as well as the prizes must be drawn from the cheating lottery of life.
LE SAGE Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to disc...
LE CORBUSIER A house is a machine for living in.
LE CORBUSIER Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
LE CORBUSIER Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we collect and share researc...
TAN LE Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a p...
LE CORBUSIER I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.
LE CORBUSIER The home should be the treasure chest of living.
LE CORBUSIER A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe...
LE CORBUSIER It is okay to be an outsider, a recent arrival, new on the scene - and not just okay, but something ...
TAN LE There are three versions of things: the one you see in your mind, the one that carries onto the pape...
JENNIFER LE Cry a river, build a bridge, and get over it.
JENNIFER LE We can change so many times in our lives. We're born into a family, and it's the only life we can im...
JENNIFER LE You follow the rules because you either care about them or you're scared of them.
JENNIFER LE The death of one will bring sorrow to my soul, but the death of 100? That will only make me think ab...
ALAN LE Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds.
LE CORBUSIER When a book can transport you out of your life and straight into it's story, you know that the autho...
JENNIFER LE The most beautiful bridge in the world. so pure, so resolute, so regular that here, finally, steel a...
LE CORBUSIER He ignores you, but somehow you fall for him more every day. He does nothing, but yet that's enough ...
JENNIFER LE To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.
LE CORBUSIER This new trend in our activities will open to all our partners, especially those come from these ter...
HELEN LE Now we don't have anything. We don't know what to do.
LIEM LE We thought when we evacuated it would be like before, a couple days and back.
LIEM LE Every age, and especially our own, stands in need of a JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT The first experiments on the biological properties of radium were successfully made in France, with ...
MARIE CURIE My dear mamma is quite right when she says that we must lay down principles and not depart from them...
MARIE ANTOINETTE There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.
MARIE ANTOINETTE I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all.
MARIE ANTOINETTE It would be doing me great injustice to think that I have any feeling of indifference to my country;...
MARIE ANTOINETTE Smiling makes you and others feel better, and it makes you look younger.
MARIE HELVIN I tried out various experiments described in treatises on physics and chemistry, and the results wer...
MARIE CURIE The death of my husband, coming immediately after the general knowledge of the discoveries with whic...
MARIE CURIE I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discove...
MARIE CURIE I was only fifteen when I finished my high-school studies, always having held first rank in my class...
MARIE CURIE If I see anything vital around me, it is precisely that spirit of adventure, which seems indestructi...
MARIE CURIE I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a ...
MARIE CURIE When radium was discovered, no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of...
MARIE CURIE There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
MARIE CURIE In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.
MARIE CURIE A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural pheno...
MARIE CURIE On the one hand, I'm so relieved that I've actually managed to finish my very first series a...
MARIE LU Women are so strong and knowledgeable. You know, instead of competing with each other, I would love ...
MARIE OSMOND I definitely think men prefer women more undone and natural than butch and masculine. They prefer a ...
MARIE HELVIN One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of gre...
MARIE RUTKOSKI I try to be as positive as I can because I truly believe I am my feelings, and if I'm sad, if I ...
MARIE HELVIN My sister Naomi and I always wanted to go to Tahiti. We planned a fantastic holiday to visit several...
MARIE HELVIN I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home, which answer the same purpose ...
MARIE CORELLI No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a mo...
MARIE ANTOINETTE Off to her bed.
MARIE ANTOINETTE Let Them Book the Four Seasons,
MARIE ANTOINETTE I was a queen, and you took away my crown, a wife, and you killed my huband, a mother, and you took ...
MARIE ANTOINETTE Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
MARIE CURIE Kestrel's cruel calculation appalled her. This was part of what had made her resist the military: th...
MARIE RUTKOSKI We are both disturbed and fascinated by visions of bleak futures, predictions of what might come if ...
MARIE LU Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swe...
MARIE LOVELL Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so...
MARIE CURIE Forever and ever, kid, until you're sick and tired of seeing me.
MARIE LU He had only heard of dragons, and although he had never seen one, he was sure they existed.
DEE MARIE I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose a...
MARIE CORELLI If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh abo...
MARIE OSMOND All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
MARIE CURIE To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very dif...
MARIE LENERU By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few thi...
MARIE DRESSLER It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
MARIE DRESSLER I am one of those who think like Nobel, than humanity will draw more good than evil from new discove...
MARIE CURIE Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand m...
MARIE CURIE If the people have no bread, let them eat cake.
MARIE ANTOINETTE Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing.
MARIE CHAPIAN Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are t...
MARIE ANTOINETTE We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospita...
MARIE CURIE I was taught that the way of progress I neither swift nor easy.
MARIE CURIE You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us m...
MARIE CURIE Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.
MARIE LAURENCIN Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the genera...
MARIE CURIE I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only ...
MARIE CURIE I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you de...
MARIE ANTOINETTE Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing.
MARIE CHAPIAN Again and again parents describe...the trancelike nature of their children's television watching. Th...
MARIE WINN We made our entrance into Paris. As for honors, we received all that we could possibly imagine; but ...
MARIE ANTOINETTE I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admir...
MARIE LOUISE I met Pierre Curie for the first time in the spring of the year 1894... A Polish physicist whom I kn...
MARIE CURIE Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat...
MARIE CORELLI I am among those who think that science has great beauty.
MARIE CURIE Now in India, a village boy who has worked his way up to work at a call center, or if he gets a job ...
MARIE BRENNER My head was full of tidying tips, and I had complete, albeit misguided, confidence that I could tidy...
MARIE KONDO During the year 1894, Pierre Curie wrote me letters that seem to me admirable in their form. No one ...
MARIE CURIE Of course, in later years, I'd studied acting more than ever before - mostly with the late Stell...
MARIE WINDSOR All my mind was centered on my studies, which, especially at the beginning, were difficult. In fact,...
MARIE CURIE We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, mac...
MARIE CURIE Pierre Curie came to see me and showed a simple and sincere sympathy with my student life. Soon he c...
MARIE CURIE Cheating is never to do with how attractive you are.
MARIE HELVIN I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.
MARIE CURIE Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
MARIE CURIE Let them eat cake.
MARIE ANTOINETTE You can do everything you can to try to stop bad things from happening to you, but eventually things...
MARIE OSMOND I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, ...
MARIE CURIE I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose a...
MARIE CORELLI I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you depr...
MARIE ANTOINETTE Sometimes I had to spend a whole day mixing a boiling mass with a heavy iron rod nearly as large as ...
MARIE CURIE Once you learn to choose your belongings properly, you will be left with only the amount that fits p...
MARIE KONDO Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all t...
MARIE CORELLI It's just a whole different thing, and it's just that my life has been a blessing, and I tha...
TEENA MARIE The objective of cleaning is not just to clean, but to feel happiness living within that environment...
MARIE KONDO As the years go by, you get to know yourself better and learn what works for you.
MARIE HELVIN I hope that people will realize that the struggle to make a life better with a sibling is worth it.
MARIE BRENNER I love to lounge, and I particularly love to eat outdoors. It's a throwback to my childhood in H...
MARIE HELVIN Myself and my two younger sisters and brother were paid for any chores, whether it was washing pop&#...
MARIE HELVIN This I regard as a classic example of my not being properly prepared for a part I very much wanted.
MARIE WINDSOR We know well and we know chronically ill, but there is a whole bunch of gray in between where I thin...
MARIE OSMOND Have gratitude for the things you're discarding. By giving gratitude, you're giving closure ...
MARIE KONDO Sorry, always sorry. What in the world can you buy with an apology?
MARIE LU What is the point of searching for love, when love is nothing but an illusion?
MARIE LU I am tired of being used, hurt, and cast aside. It is my turn to use. My turn to hurt.
MARIE LU It's human nature to take the easy route and leap at storage methods that promise quick and conv...
MARIE KONDO In 1906, just as we were definitely giving up the old shed laboratory where we had been so happy, th...
MARIE CURIE I have a different mentality when it comes to catering to a man, I just won't allow it. Don'...
TEENA MARIE Whether we think of Disney's blonde beauty and her pumpkin carriage or Marissa Meyer's recen...
MARIE RUTKOSKI Me entró entonces la duda de si habría poseído alguna vez un don que no fuese el de la fabulació...
MARIE NDIAYE You're brilliant,"he says."But you're a fool to stay with someone like me."
I close my eyes at ...
MARIE LU Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the ...
MARIE LU But how will I eat cake if my head is over there, and my hands are over here?
MARIE ANTOINETTE Chase your dreams until you catch them...and then dream, catch, and dream again!
DEE MARIE It's not across the board but it will apply to almost all of GM's mid-sized cars,
ANNE MARIE