My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very s...
WILLEM DE KOONING The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of...
WILLEM DE KOONING Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.
WILLEM DE KOONING An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
WILLEM DE KOONING In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a s...
WILLEM DE KOONING Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas ...
WILLEM DE KOONING The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
WILLEM DE KOONING If you pick up some paint with your brush and make somebody's nose with it, this is rather ridiculou...
WILLEM DE KOONING I don't paint to live, I live to paint.
WILLEM DE KOONING Once, after finishing a picture, I thought I would stop for awhile, take a trip, do things -- the ne...
WILLEM DE KOONING The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time
WILLEM DE KOONING I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.
WILLEM DE KOONING I am because we are
WILLEM DE LIEFDE The best thing an actor can be is ready. Be flexible, be ready.
WILLEM DAFOE Sometimes I say I feel more like a dancer than an actor, because there are things implied about bein...
WILLEM DAFOE I think on some level, you do your best things when you're a little off-balance, a little scared...
WILLEM DAFOE The mask can be a limitation, but you just deal with it. You do get superhuman strength and pumpkin ...
WILLEM DAFOE Action breeds inspiration more than inspiration breeds action.
WILLEM DAFOE It's true in the beginning I started playing villains, and I think that's pretty clear, beca...
WILLEM DAFOE When you work on anything, you want to find the range of impulses - which ones get portrayed is anot...
WILLEM DAFOE I set myself challenges every time I work. Ideally, I approach everything as though it's the fir...
WILLEM DAFOE Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasize about a world we asp...
WILLEM DAFOE I guess they often cast me as the bad guy, because I'm not, er, conventional looking. I look sor...
WILLEM DAFOE I am confident only when I am constantly in motion. Between projects, the doubt creeps in.
WILLEM DAFOE Let's hope I never end up on a deserted island, because I could never make a decision on which t...
WILLEM DAFOE A lot of critics are lazy. They don't want to look closely and analyze something for what it is....
WILLEM DAFOE Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people's hands. There are a lot of pleasures that...
WILLEM DAFOE I'm a task-oriented actor. A pretender. And I try to invent my process anew each time I make a n...
WILLEM DAFOE The aesthetic is not that we're taking a hand-held camera and we're just letting it roll and doing o...
WILLEM DAFOE The mask can be a limitation, but you just deal with it. You do get superhuman strength and pumpkin ...
WILLEM DAFOE Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people's hands. There are a lot of pleasures that the...
WILLEM DAFOE One of the pleasures of being an actor is quite simply taking a walk in someone else's shoes. And wh...
WILLEM DAFOE [I] lie like the truth.
WILLEM DAFOE some actors seek parts similar to their personalities. But, I prefer undergoing a metamorphosis that...
WILLEM DAFOE Unless it's a down-and-dirty little film ... you have to strike that balance between having it roote...
WILLEM DAFOE I've been a prisoner and lived in prison for a while; I've been a missionary in China; I've been a v...
WILLEM DAFOE Countries wishing to export sturgeon products ... must demonstrate that their proposed catch and exp...
WILLEM WIJNSTEKERS I'm not attracted to naturalism, I'm not attracted to behavior, I'm attracted to dance. ...
WILLEM DAFOE I was born William. My father was William. I came from a big family, I hated being called Billy. Wil...
WILLEM DAFOE I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself,...
WILLEM DAFOE Sometimes I think women are lucky because they can develop in ways men can't. The old-boy networ...
WILLEM DAFOE Basically, when I hear the words 'family drama,' I run in the opposite direction.
WILLEM DAFOE What New England is, is a state of mind, a place where dry humor and perpetual disappointment blend ...
WILLEM LANGE I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself,...
WILLEM DAFOE I don't think people want to see me as a regular guy; besides, I'm a regular guy in real lif...
WILLEM DAFOE Film is an editor's medium. You can create very good raw material and they can make it horrible,...
WILLEM DAFOE Weirdness is not my game. I'm just a square boy from Wisconsin.
WILLEM DAFOE In my experience, sometimes a movie just hits at the wrong time, gets the wrong press, or gets the w...
WILLEM DAFOE I'm one of those people who when I go over a bridge, I want to jump. It's just this intense ...
WILLEM DAFOE I do want to be in mainstream movies that are going to be seen. I suppose it satisfies the showbiz s...
WILLEM DAFOE Springtime to me used to mean doing things - bicycling, fishing, canoeing. Now it seems more like th...
WILLEM LANGE I will not let me tell me what to do I listen to what needs to be done
WILLEM VAN EEKELEN Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma.
HENDRIK WILLEM VAN LOON The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the...
HENDRIK WILLEM VAN LOON The history of the world is the record of man in quest of his daily bread and butter.
HENDRIK WILLEM VAN LOON Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma
HENDRIK WILLEM VAN LOON On the other hand, when you grow up you will discover that some of the people in this world never pa...
HENDRIK WILLEM VAN LOON Yeah who hast no sense of humour hast an old soul
WILLEM ANDRIES STEFANUS GOUWS The history of the world is the record of a man in quest for his daily bread and butter
HENDRICK WILLEM VAN LOON Here in the Netherlands there are towns that take part in the throwing of toilet bowls for a laugh.
WILLEM-ALEXANDER OF THE NETHERLANDS Sometimes it just means flying from Bogota to New York via Amsterdam to have a day with your kids. W...
WILLEM-ALEXANDER OF THE NETHERLANDS I want to be a traditional king first and foremost, building on the tradition of my predecessors sta...
WILLEM-ALEXANDER OF THE NETHERLANDS I'm not a protocol fetishist. It's more important to me that people feel at ease when I'...
WILLEM-ALEXANDER OF THE NETHERLANDS Women made us lose paradise, but how frequently we find it again in their arms
DE FINOD The more I saw of foreign countries the more I loved my own.
DE DELLOY An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
DE CHATEAUBRIAND Peace is a natural effect of trade.
DE MONTESQUIEU If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
DE MONTESQUIEU Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.
DE MONTESQUIEU In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also is despotic governments: in the fo...
DE MONTESQUIEU There is a French saying: ''Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.''
DE FINOD We would prefer to see a more expedient transfer of properties and the backlog ? being cleared.
DE RAUVILLE Hope is the gay skylarking pajamas we wear over yesterday's bruises
DE CASSERES There has been softening in share prices after March month end.
DE RAUVILLE To remain virtuous a man has only to combat his own desires; a woman must resist her own inclination...
DE LATENA Most of those children don't have one-tenth of the opportunity my children had, and I don't think th...
DE KNUDSON I am extremely supportive of communities being able to make their own decisions regarding tobacco, a...
DE KNUDSON I believe there are many dysfunctional families in our community. I am particularly concerned about ...
DE KNUDSON Many of the students want to come back tomorrow. My hope is to introduce history to all of the stude...
DE HEARN It was a good education for the students.
DE HEARN We wanted the students to recognize and participate in the unique history of Wall. Students should h...
DE HEARN All bow to virtue, and then walk away
DE FINOD One of the greatest sources of suffering is to have an inborn sense of honor
DE CASSERES How intoxicating is the triumph of beauty, and how right it is to name it queen of the universe! Ho...
DE SURIN It is completely unacceptable how patients are treated by some of the staff and something has to be ...
DE LANGE Indolence is the sleep of the mind. [Fr., L'indolence est le sommeil des esprits.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish. [Fr., Il est difficile d'estimer quelq...
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that th...
BERNARD DE BOVIER DE FONTENELLE Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.
ROGER DE RABUTIN DE BUSSY The maxims of men reveal their characters. [Fr., Les maximes des hommes decelent leur coeur.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Obscurity is the realm of error. [Fr., L'obscurite est le royaume de l'erreur.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Clearness ornaments profound thoughts. [Fr., La clarte orne les pensees profondes.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES An optimist is a man who plant two acorns and buy a hammock.
JEAN DE LATTRE DE TASSIGNY Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers. [Fr., La clarte est la bonne foi des philosophes.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good. [Fr., Les merchants sont toujours sur...
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Prosperity makes few friends. [Fr., La proserite fait peu d'amis.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures. [Fr., Le fruit du travail est le plus d...
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The conscience of the dying belies their life.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it is a proof that it should be rejected.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Prosperity makes few friends.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The maxims of men reveal their characters.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Do not hold everything as gold which shines like gold.
ALANUS DE INSULUS (ALAIN DE L'ISLE) Who knows but that hereafter some traveller like myself will sit down upon the banks of the Seine, ...
CONSTANTIN FRANCOIS DE CHASSEBEOUF DE VOLNEY When we have not what we love, we must love what we have. [Fr., Quand on n'a pas ce que l'on aime,...
ROGER DE BUSSY-RABUTIN (DE BUSSY) A new maxim is often a brilliant error.
CHRETIEN-GUILLAUME DE LAMOIGNON DE MALESHERBES We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
CHRETIEN-GUILLAUME DE LAMOIGNON DE MALESHERBES The human heart will never wrinkle.
MARIE DE RABUTIN-CHANTAL DE SéVIGNé We have access to practical, ethical and scientifically established methods of birth control. So I t...
CHRISTIAN DE DUVE Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.
MAURICE DE VLAMINCK Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning a...
MADAME DE STAEL Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.
FRANS DE WAAL I am personally not against keeping animals at zoos, as they serve a huge educational purpose, but t...
FRANS DE WAAL I was named Margaret Yvonne. 'Margaret' because my mother was very fond of one of the deriva...
YVONNE DE CARLO I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn.
YVONNE DE CARLO I'm from Hollywood; I'm too dumb to be nervous about New York.
YVONNE DE CARLO Men, no matter what their promises, rarely leave their spouses... the louses.
YVONNE DE CARLO I enjoyed being in 'The Ten Commandments.' That was a great experience - to suddenly become ...
YVONNE DE CARLO I guess I lead a double life, and I must admit I'm happy with both.
YVONNE DE CARLO After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a prop...
YVONNE DE CARLO The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her...
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE I hope to see the bringing together of all the best educated people of the earth into a worldwide Co...
MARQUIS DE CONDORCET If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from ro...
THOMAS DE QUINCEY Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to d...
SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN I've always been a geek, so I've always used the Internet, perhaps at first for autopromotio...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY When you grew up in France in the 1970s and 80s, the Vel' d'Hiv wasn't part of the histo...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY Sometimes I get to see a movie that's adapted from a book that I haven't heard about or that...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY I'm a writer. I'm not an actress.
TATIANA DE ROSNAY I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are v...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY There are two of my favorite books, 'The Great Gatsby' and 'Gone With The Wind', tha...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY I'm used to promoting books, but a movie is a very different thing. You have to go to film festi...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY It's a complicated process being so bilingual. Sometimes it's a mere word or sentence that c...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome.
ROBERT DE NIRO Well concerning the world records that I did, I think it helps a lot to me, yeah. I think it's a...
INGE DE BRUIJN I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training ha...
INGE DE BRUIJN And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.
INGE DE BRUIJN I love to smile.
INGE DE BRUIJN Ballyhoo is for your classic girl, who is fun and fearless. This is for the girl who is not afraid t...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT You're a smaller fish in the U.S. There's just so many more TV shows, and actors, and actres...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT I had no interest in being an actress what so ever, and when I was about 14 or 15, I was signed to a...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT I'm a big fan of people like Rachel Bilson and Kate Bosworth. I think they're so chic and ha...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT My dream evening is wearing my sweatpants, eating something delicious and watching TV with my boyfri...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT My style is quite clean, vintage, and almost French in a way.
INDIA DE BEAUFORT School was rough for me. I was a good student in middle school, but high school wasn't so fun. I...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT Every trend in my high school was terrible! I used to wear my hair in a tight bun and let two long p...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT I remember my first actor that I really, really fell in love with was Tom Hanks. I suppose when I wa...
IAIN DE CAESTECKER When I was younger, me and my brother got a video camera, and he used to direct and I used to act. W...
IAIN DE CAESTECKER Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there'...
IAIN DE CAESTECKER I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU The less men think, the more they talk.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name o...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy ...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally de...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE 'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE My trade and art is to live.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE If triangles had a god, they would give him three sides.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwe...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and th...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happines...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I think, and out of all that I try to form an idea into which ...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.
LUC DE CLAPIERS To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
LUC DE CLAPIERS When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The maxims of men reveal their characters.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Obscurity is the realm of error.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great amb...
LUC DE CLAPIERS Those who can bear all can dare all.
LUC DE CLAPIERS We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.
LUC DE CLAPIERS One can not be just if one is not humane.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
LUC DE CLAPIERS