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Jean Giraudoux

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JAMES DURBIN I am Happy and satisfied with what I am. 10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS... Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON It was very distressing to see how completely relaxed and normal Jean Charles appeared, particularly...
NICK HARDWICK It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive...
DAN FLAVIN With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i...
STEVEN STRAIT It is feeling and not reasoning that drives one to prayer.' -Emma to Charles
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN Life is not all about sticking or stopping your thoughts to old memories but LIFE STARTS when you st...
NEHA KOTHARI I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what...
HARRY STYLES It is time for Charles Taylor to have his day in court.
KANJI DARAMY There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man. -Jean Giraudoux.
JEAN GIRAUDOUX Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles for living.
JAMIE FOXX Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles, for living.
JAMIE FOXX I saw that there is no Nature,
That Nature doesn’t exist,
That there are hills, valleys,...
ALBERTO CAEIRO There was no Jace Wayland more real than the one he saw in her eyes when she looked at him.
CASSANDRA CLARE Charles Wynn ran the ball really well, but Charles did most of that (himself).
BRADY HOKE You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like...
BEBE REXHA I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read.
ALBERTO CAEIRO This is, for us, as good as it gets. Prince Charles has pretty much for 20-plus years embraced the i...
HELGE HELLBERG What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
CRAIG GROESCHEL See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not...
TAYLOR HACKFORD Charles Peterson is a good ball player.
AL GALLAGHER I take the good with the bad. I always wanted to be a comic, and part of that, for me, was that I wa...
ERIK GRIFFIN He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings,...
LAURIE FRANKEL Prince Charles is so funny. So, so funny.
JOAN RIVERS it's always important to do what you want, Life is too short to live with Regrets.
SHELLI THOMPSON I'm not an Emontional, but how???
I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has...
DEYTH BANGER True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. -Charles Ca...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Charles is a great dancer — he's never danced quite like that before.
MARTHA STEWART 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ...
SUFJAN STEVENS When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily mani...
DAVE GROHL An open book is an open mind" -Charles Chiltington
CHRIS GRABENSTEIN Kitten, this is my best mate, Charles, but you can call him Spade. Charles, this is Cat, the woman I...
JEANIENE FROST There's not much I don't like about (Charles and Dustin). They're both athletic, but past that, they...
CHARLES DAVIS Ok, I see. When they say Charles Wovenu is passing by, everyone wants to see Charles Wovenu. But whe...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I'd work with Charles Kelley anytime. I'd go do a 'Pancho and Lefty' record with Cha...
DARIUS RUCKER Commemoration of Charles de Foucauld, Hermit, Servant of the Poor, 1916 Whoever loves much, does ...
THOMAS À KEMPIS Prince Charles is the best-dressed man in the world.
DOMINIC WEST [Charles sings the ballad] It All Goes By So Fast ... Shout.
MARY J. BLIGE [Answering Newsweek's phone call about Dr. Charles' condition] In my opinion, Dr. Sebastian Charles ...
DR. GREGORY HOUSE When you listen to Ray Charles, there's never any doubt whose voice that is.
CLINT EASTWOOD I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke do...
WILLIE NELSON If I knew I was going to die tomorrow,
And Spring came the day after tomorrow,
I would die...
ALBERTO CAEIRO The Madden Curse has really taken on a life of its own. People just love talking about it, and it is...
DREW BREES Between what i see in a field and what I see in another field
There passes for a moment the fig...
ALBERTO CAEIRO It’s an already inside outside,
The philosophers say it’s the soul
But it’s not the ...
ALBERTO CAEIRO Do I believe a thing has limits!? Of course! Nothing exists that doesn’t have limits. Existence me...
ÁLVARO DE CAMPOS Things don’t have significance: they only have existence.
Things are the only hidden meaning ...
ALBERTO CAEIRO I'm probably the least harsh on myself, and I try not to scrutinize everything about my body. As...
KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN Not everybody wants be texting their 15-year-old asking how his math tutor was. They would rather be...
RENEE JAMES Childhood is not dead. Children were worse off when we were hunter-gatherers; they were threatened i...
ROBERT WINSTON I've always said that the reason 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' is a classic is because it reflects the...
LEE MENDELSON A lot of people say there's a fine line between genius and insanity. I don't think there's a fine li...
BILL BAILEY I love you; I love you and I don’t care that you’re my sister; don’t be with him, don’t want...
CASSANDRA CLARE The Queen gave him a look: special and secretive and shared between the two of them.You warned he...
CASSANDRA CLARE There is one person in charge of every office in America and that person is Charles Darwin.
CHARLIE GRANDY It definitely helps us. Prince Charles is not popular at all. There's definitely a problem with him,...
GRAHAM SMITH The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board.
D.M. TIMNEY What comes, when it comes, will be what it is.
ALBERTO CAEIRO Night doesn’t fall for my eyes
But my idea of the night is that it falls for my eyes.
Be...
ALBERTO CAEIRO I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either.
Nobody goes faster than the legs they...
ALBERTO CAEIRO I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by ac...
ROBERT REDFORD It is what it is. I balled out, had some good years, man, had fun and did it with some guys and made...
CALVIN JOHNSON Charles is a remarkably enlightened person, deeply committed to the Institute and its objectives.
PETER GODDARD Never ignore a possible. ~Charles
KATHERINE RUNDELL I like Ray Charles, though.
KYLE NELSON How do you know that God didn't speak to Charles Darwin?
JACK LEMMON I took you out to dinner to warn you of charm. I warned you expressly and in great details of the Fl...
EVELYN WAUGH But (Prince) Charles is leaving for India next week so she had to get back.
GIAAN ROONEY And is usually true of a man of one idea, [Charles] became obsessed.
JOHN STEINBECK I love golf. But do you know how I got good at golf? Because of Charles Barkley. I was playing with ...
ERIC DICKERSON If you have a question, ask. How do you ask? Say it or write it
SOTONYE ANGA To be honest, there are no problems between me and Messi. People have their own opinions about who t...
CRISTIANO RONALDO No sense makes sense.” Charles Manson
VINCENT BUGLIOSI I was born subject like others to errors and defects,
But never to the error of wanting to unde...
ALBERTO CAEIRO Accept the universe
As the gods gave it to you.
If the gods wanted to give you something e...
ALBERTO CAEIRO I'm living with every step. I can't live with regret. The past is the past. I'm not worr...
RYAN SHECKLER The man stopped talking and was looking at the sunset.
But what does someone who hates and love...
ALBERTO CAEIRO There were still few rules at Down House, and Charles was not very good at enforcing the ones he and...
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN You have punished me long enough, you have punished yourself long enough. Return to me. I beg.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Celui qui n'évolue pas disparaît.
CHARLES DARWIN I would far rather burn my whole book, than that he or any other man should think i behaved in a pal...
ABRAM KARDINER ‎"she’ mad but she’
magic. there’ no lie in her fire.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Your fangs are showing, Miss Lyndon."

"Are they?" she asked, reaching up to touch her fac...
JULIA QUINN Am I not allowed to speak in hyperbole?"

"Only," he said, a bit too smoothly, "if you are...
JULIA QUINN you fall into the mirror,
come through the other
side
staring at a lightbulb.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI a pro does as well as he can within what
he has set out to do
and a madman
does excep...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Christmas poem to a man in jail

hello Bill Abbott:
I appreciate your passing around ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI and the color in my eyes
has gone back into the sea.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI the whole world is caught in her glance
and at last
the universe is
magnificent.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI If it would benefit you, I would kill every wolf here. But there are things that you need to do -- a...
PATRICIA BRIGGS

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"We know we're in exactly the right place," he f...
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JEAN BAUDRILLARD Pornography is the quadraphonics of sex. It adds a third and fourth track to the sexual act. It is t...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Nothing is irreparable in politics.
JEAN ANOUILH If there is a species which is more maltreated than children, then it must be their toys, which they...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD One of life's primal situations; the game of hide and seek. Oh, the delicious thrill of hiding while...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD The local is a shabby thing. There's nothing worse than bringing us back down to our own little corn...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're cau...
JEAN ANOUILH Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny t...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD We are all hostages, and we are all terrorists. This circuit has replaced that other one of masters ...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the o...
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