What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature,...
JACQUES COUSTEAU What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of natur...
JACQUES COUSTEAU We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what...
JACQUES COUSTEAU From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has o...
JACQUES COUSTEAU Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
JACQUES COUSTEAU If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed [and] if we are not willing [to change], we will...
JACQUES COUSTEAU The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish
JACQUES COUSTEAU totally unreasonable.
JACQUES COUSTEAU I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
JACQUES COUSTEAU If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human be...
JACQUES COUSTEAU Buoyed by water, he can fly in any direction-up, down, sideways-by merely flipping his hand. Under w...
JACQUES COUSTEAU Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.
JACQUES COUSTEAU When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no righ...
JACQUES COUSTEAU To yackety-yak about the past is for me time lost. Every morning I wake up saying, 'I'm still alive ...
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAU The reason I love the sea I cannot explain -- it's physical. When you dive you begin to feel like an...
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAU The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that de...
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU People protect what they love.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Natu...
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that ...
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human...
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will dis...
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human be...
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the condit...
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU The sea is the universal sewer.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no righ...
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, woul...
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature,...
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you ...
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what...
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it...
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a liter...
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has o...
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing...
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to real...
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAU The Sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAU The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAU My grandfather was Jacques Cousteau, a pioneer of ocean exploration and the co-inventor of scuba div...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. My grandfather raised me believing in the power of youth to change the world.
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. Our oceans are facing innumerable threats - from overfishing and pollution to ocean acidification an...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. Let's face it. Adventure and exploration are in my blood.
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. Ocean acidification is often referred to as osteoporosis of the oceans because as acidity rises, she...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. I hate plastic bottles. Just think about it before you buy one. We pay more for a gallon of water th...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. Ocean acidification is caused by the ocean absorbing excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, the ...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. With EarthEcho Expedition: Acid Apocalypse, we are working with youth leaders and noted experts on t...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. The world cannot live without the Arctic; it affects every living thing on Earth and acts as a virtu...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. When you talk to a Republican, many of them just outright say, 'Yeah. Climate change isn't r...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. My greatest hope for a future without another Deepwater Horizon disaster lies in our schools, living...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. The first time I ever had the opportunity to dive on the Great Barrier Reef, it was while filming &#...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. Like my father and grandfather, Philippe and Jacques-Yves Cousteau, I've dedicated my life to ex...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. As our technology evolves, we will have the capacity to reach new, ever-increasing depths. The quest...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. The earliest memories I have of the ocean are actually stories - stories from my grandfather, the le...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. I could cut my leg of; I could cut my arm off. I could gouge my eye out - I'd still probably sur...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. Don't eat shrimp - it's one of the most unsustainable fish. For every pound that's caugh...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. Truly, we do live on a 'water planet.' For us, water is that critical issue that we need. It...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. As an explorer, I know firsthand there are many places in the ocean so full of life that they should...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. Phoenix is an interesting example. Drive around and see the golf courses everywhere, and you see peo...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. The goal of each EarthEcho Expedition is to inspire and empower youth around the world with the know...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. We've built, drilled, and shipped indiscriminately across our oceans, with little consideration ...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. Our oceans cover two-thirds of what my grandfather called our water planet, and the part of the ocea...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. Sumatra has these lush forests and huge, amazing creatures like elephants, orangutans, and tigers. T...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. If having a beautiful lawn means putting up warning signs several times a year to keep children and ...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. They say that our sense of smell is one of the strongest triggers of memories. Of course, our sense ...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. Targeting women is key in developing countries. It allows them to go to school, to say how many chil...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. I love snowboarding. It's probably my favorite sport. I love sitting on top of the mountain and ...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. One of my big pet peeves is single-use plastic bags. I think it's one of the stupidest ideas in ...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. Some parts of our oceans, like the rich and mysterious recesses of our Atlantic submarine canyons an...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. Science is cool! But it's easy for that to get lost in textbooks sometimes.
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. I am inclined to believe that this is the land God gave to Cain.
JACQUES CARTIER I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would b...
JACQUES DERRIDA Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.
JACQUES BARZUN Western countries are thoroughly accustomed to being the centre of global attention, which they have...
MARTIN JACQUES In the aftermath of 9/11 and in the build-up to the invasion of Iraq, few questioned the idea that t...
MARTIN JACQUES After being boxed in by man and his constructions in Europe and the East, the release into space is ...
JACQUES BARZUN An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool...
JACQUES PREVERT Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of jo...
JACQUES CHIRAC When the Canadian confederation took place in 1867, a lot of people in Quebec said, 'Could we ha...
JACQUES PARIZEAU I sometimes think it ironic for an ex-seaman, longshoreman, truck driver, policeman, bus driver, etc...
BRIAN JACQUES We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qua...
JACQUES MARITAIN Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.
JACQUES CHIRAC Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
JACQUES PREVERT The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was ...
JACQUES DERRIDA Blair - except at the edges - was a Thatcherite. Brown, in contrast, regarded Thatcherism as somethi...
MARTIN JACQUES There has always been something less than wholesome about New Labour. But Blair for a long time had ...
MARTIN JACQUES We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their q...
JACQUES MARITAIN Experience is the cane of the blind.
JACQUES ROUMAIN Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit ...
BRIAN JACQUES Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning t...
JACQUES DERRIDA To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.
JACQUES DERRIDA Authority and power are two different things: power is the force by means of which you can oblige ot...
JACQUES MARITAIN I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable...
JACQUES MARITAIN When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of ...
JACQUES PREVERT A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.
JACQUES MARITAIN Within the university... you can study without waiting for any efficient or immediate result. You ma...
JACQUES DERRIDA Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends.
JACQUES DELILLE Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
JACQUES MARITAIN For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to unde...
JACQUES ATTALI In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a ...
JACQUES BARZUN Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.
JACQUES BARZUN Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
JACQUES BARZUN We see societies establishing themselves, nations forming themselves, which in turn dominate over ot...
JACQUES TURGOT Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen an...
JACQUES ATTALI Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
JACQUES DELILLE How would you like a job where when you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people bo...
JACQUES PLANTE Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realiti...
JACQUES BARZUN Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
JACQUES BARZUN A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the c...
JACQUES BARZUN God is becoming bitter, he envies man his mortality.
JACQUES RIGAUT Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends
JACQUES DELILLE Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
JACQUES BARZUN Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps...
JACQUES BARZUN Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realit...
JACQUES BARZUN Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
JACQUES DELILLE God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.
JACQUES DEVAL What's the point of havin' a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?
JEPH JACQUES Teaching is not a lost art, but regard for teaching is a lost tradition.
JACQUES BARZUN In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already mode...
JACQUES DERRIDA Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.
JACQUES BARZUN Ever since Pele's extraordinary talents blessed the world of football, black footballers have be...
MARTIN JACQUES If the truth be told, we are a society that is dripping in racism. This is not in the least surprisi...
MARTIN JACQUES Just six years into the 21st century, one can say this is not shaping up to be anything like an Amer...
MARTIN JACQUES Everybody has a right to be defended, and every lawyer has a duty to defend people accused. And my o...
JACQUES VERGES In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a...
JACQUES DERRIDA Globalisation has obliterated distance, not just physically but also, most dangerously, mentally. It...
MARTIN JACQUES I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap.
JACQUES DERRIDA It is good for society to have this introspection.
JACQUES VERGES Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social...
JACQUES ELLUL What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?
JACQUES LACAN If the Age of Sport has been all champagne and roses hitherto, then expect our love affair with its ...
MARTIN JACQUES The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a ...
JACQUES DERRIDA For everyday, we like Beaujolais, Grenache or Syrah, and we like a lot of it! It's a family trad...
JACQUES PEPIN When I pair food and wine, I start with the food. If I have a beautiful roasted bird, I might choose...
JACQUES PEPIN When I was a child, we always had wine on the table, no matter how simple the meal. The wine had no ...
JACQUES PEPIN I was chef to the French Presidents between '56 and '59, finished with de Gaulle, and during...
JACQUES PEPIN My mother likes what I cook, but doesn't think it's French. My wife is Puerto Rican and Cuba...
JACQUES PEPIN I have an immigrant story. Most people come here for economic reasons, or religious reasons, or raci...
JACQUES PEPIN I am a glutton. I'll eat whatever is there. Pizza. I love hot dogs anywhere. I've got nothin...
JACQUES PEPIN I taped my first series for PBS in 1982 at WJCT-TV in Jacksonville, Florida. The show, called 'E...
JACQUES PEPIN You can't escape the taste of the food you had as a child. In times of stress, what do you dream...
JACQUES PEPIN I say: If you don't know how to cook, I'm sure you have at least one friend who knows how to...
JACQUES PEPIN Most people who came here came for economic reasons or sometimes for religious or political reasons....
JACQUES PEPIN My palate is simpler than it used to be. A young chef adds and adds and adds to the plate. As you ge...
JACQUES PEPIN If you have extraordinary bread and extraordinary butter, it's hard to beat bread and butter.
JACQUES PEPIN You have no choice as a professional chef: you have to repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat until it becom...
JACQUES PEPIN Basically, I go to the local farmer's market and decide to what to cook then, depending on what ...
JACQUES PEPIN All the great chefs I know - Thomas Keller, Jean-Georges Vongerichten - they are technicians first.
JACQUES PEPIN This is what a family is all about - one another, sitting around the table at night. And it's ve...
JACQUES PEPIN Just because I am a chef doesn't mean I don't rely on fast recipes. Indeed, we all have mome...
JACQUES PEPIN The idea of old was to conform yourself to a style of cooking, it was not to create a style of cooki...
JACQUES PEPIN Great cooking favors the prepared hands.
JACQUES PEPIN I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a gr...
JACQUES PEPIN There is no ageism or 'youthism' when it comes to freedom of speech. We are all citizens.
JACQUES PARIZEAU One of the characteristics of New Labour - and Miliband is irredeemably of that species - is that, i...
MARTIN JACQUES Never underestimate the ability of political leaders to misread history on a monumental scale. The i...
MARTIN JACQUES The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person ...
JACQUES DELORS Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt demo...
JACQUES CHIRAC Although one of the key justifications for the Vietnam war was to prevent the spread of communism, t...
MARTIN JACQUES I cooked at the White House for Easter, last year, with Michelle Obama. But it more had to do with c...
JACQUES PEPIN Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.
JACQUES MARITAIN I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The story was so good that my teacher cou...
BRIAN JACQUES You cannot eat a cluster of grapes at once, but it is very easy if you eat them one by one.
JACQUES ROUMAIN Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing...
JACQUES DERRIDA Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, thing...
JACQUES LIPCHITZ marmfloxes
BRIAN JACQUES The more 'otter it is, the more 'otter otters likes it
BRIAN JACQUES Aha! Today I shall become an author! And I will auth and auth and auth and make a squillion dollars,...
BRIAN JACQUES Friar Hugo, old friend, brace yourself. I am the bearer of tragic news!"

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BRIAN JACQUES A little (one) can sometimes see things in others that us older ones cannot because our judgement ge...
BRIAN JACQUES Eulaliiiaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BRIAN JACQUES Any weapon is a good weapon as long as ye can use it with honor and skill.
BRIAN JACQUES Wot Wot
BRIAN JACQUES In my experience, there are plenty of bad middle-class parents: those who put their own lives and ca...
MARTIN JACQUES Already 2008 has proved a tumultuous year in terms of global perceptions of China, and there are sti...
MARTIN JACQUES More than 90% of Chinese believe themselves to be Han. Of course, such a vast population is derived ...
MARTIN JACQUES I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back t...
JACQUES DERRIDA There are a host of ethnic minorities in China, but they often have a weak sense of identity and are...
MARTIN JACQUES This June, I'll travel once again to the Food and Wine Magazine Classic in Aspen, Colorado. For ...
JACQUES PEPIN Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.
JACQUES DERRIDA The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical...
JACQUES ELLUL These irresponsible acts, which cannot have any justification whatsoever, are to be fully condemned....
JACQUES CHIRAC After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what ...
JACQUES PEPIN If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but com...
JACQUES DERRIDA Neoconservatism in all its pomp conceived - in the Project for a New American Century - that, follow...
MARTIN JACQUES When I left to go into apprenticeship in 1949, it was only four years after the war, and people don&...
JACQUES PEPIN You know, my parents had a restaurant. And I left home, actually, in 1949, when I was 13 years old, ...
JACQUES PEPIN Our ascendancy of the past two centuries - first Europe and then the U.S. - has bred a western-centr...
MARTIN JACQUES But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a gener...
JACQUES LACAN Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful.
JACQUES AUDIARD The fact that television and tourism have made the whole world accessible has created the illusion t...
MARTIN JACQUES Following the end of the Cold War, there was much discussion concerning the point of NATO. In the ev...
MARTIN JACQUES When you are at home, even if the chicken is a little burnt, what's the big deal? Relax.
JACQUES PEPIN