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Quotes by French Authors
"There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true."
"Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?"
"The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?"
"In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy."
"There is no original truth, only original error."
"When I did small films like Lily and Buenos Vista, everyone thought my career would be ruined."
"Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting."
"At the beginning it wasn't to do with the work, it was more the experience."
"We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be."
"There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison."
"The collective conscience of a hundred musicians is no light burden. Think for a moment of what it would mean to a pianist if by some miracle every key of his instrument should suddenly become a living thing."
"Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred."
"Our multiaccess approach will make the life of the customer simpler."
"Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one."
"It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit."
"It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base."
"What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination."
"The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed."
"I think it's almost easier to make people cry than to make people laugh."
"We have a saying in France. A dog doesn't make a cat."
"I have legs of iron, but to tell you the truth, they're starting to rust and buckle a bit."
"Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes."
"Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live."
"Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind."
"An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations."
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