Afficher Les Quotes

Agonized by her longing to go on thinking of her lover, and her fear of damnation if she does, she has hit on the idea of praying God to make her forget him and as she keeps on making this prayer every minute of the day, she's found a way of never letting him out of her mind. ~ Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

I did see 'Les Miz' and I thought it was just incredible. Totally incredible. I love 'Chicago,' too. ~ Jennifer Love Hewitt

Love is a fault; be it so. Fantine was innocence floating upon the surface of this fault. ~ Victor Hugo

Mulder gave a crooked smile of welcome. 'Sorry,' he said, 'Nobody down here but the F.B.I.'s most unwanted. ~ Les Martin

My first record I owned was by Les Paul. ~ Bill Wyman

It never rains in Tiger Stadium, ~ Les Miles

Quand les cimes de notre ciel se rejoindront Ma maison aura un toit.
(When the peaks of our sky come together My house will have a roof.) ~ Paul Eluard

How to discover your greatness? By upgrading our relationships and by having goals beyond our comfort zone. ~ Les Brown

You can't see the picture when you're in the frame. ~ Les Brown

Housekeeper. She enlisted friends with their own small children to mind us while she worked for wages. When she took us in, Mama had absolutely no idea of how she was going to support us. She knew she wanted a family, so she made us that and then proceeded to so do whatever it took to keep us in shirts and dungarees and food. Many ~ Les Brown

I was sat at the bottom of the garden a week ago, smoking a reflective cheroot, thinking about this and that - mostly that, and I just happened to glance at the night sky and I marvelled at the millions of stars glistening like pieces of quicksilver thrown carelessly onto black velvet. In awe I watched the waxen moon ride across the zenith of the heavens like an amber chariot towards the void of infinite space wherein the tethered bolts of Jupiter and Mars hang forever in their orbital majesty; and as I looked at all this, I thought, 'I must put a roof on this lavatory. ~ Les Dawson

I'll run against the grain till the day I drop? ~ Les Claypool

[Mary Wortley Montagu] wrote more letters, with fewer punctuation marks, than any Englishwoman of her day; and her nephew, the fourth Baron Rokeby, nearly blinded himself in deciphering the two volumes of undated correspondence which were printed in 1810. Two more followed in 1813, after which the gallant Baron either died at his post or was smitten with despair; for sixty-eight cases of letters lay undisturbed ... 'Les morts n'écrivent point,' said Madame de Maintenon hopefully; but of what benefit is this inactivity, when we still continue to receive their letters? ~ Agnes Repplier

I saw six men kicking and punching the mother-in-law. My neighbour said 'Are you going to help?' I said 'No, six should be enough.' ~ Les Dawson

Stand up for what you believe in, because you can fall for anything. ~ Les Brown

New Year's was insane! It was the best show I've ever played for New Year's. ~ Les Claypool

My mother-in-law had to stop skipping for exercise. It registered seven on the Richter scale. ~ Les Dawson

You are never fully dressed until you put on a smile! ~ Les Miserables

Those who do not weep, do not see. ~ Victor Hugo

Below Les Avants there was a chalet where the pension was wonderful and where we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright. That was where we could go. Traveling third class on the train was not expensive. The pension cost very little more than we spent in Paris. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. ~ Les Brown

Dialectic concepts can permit the existence of UFOs and other life-forms... Even if these reports of flying saucers are fantasies, as is possible that the majority may be, many of them, their historical basis is correct… the scientific capacity of human beings is determined by their social organisation... The answers to these mysteries would lie in a study of Marxism." From Les Soucoupes Volantes (Flying Saucers) ~ Juan R. Posadas

I damaged my health during 'Les Mis,' which I didn't want to mention in case it seemed like I was courting sympathy. ~ Anne Hathaway

Shoot for the moon, the worst that could happen is you land amongst the stars ~ Les Brown

I love doing concert music. ~ Les Baxter

When lovers come together, there is an accident of lips. (Quand les amoureux se rencontrent, - Il y a un accident des lèvres) ~ Charles De Leusse

He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends ~ Victor Hugo

A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon. ~ Victor Hugo

I used my mother's radio as a PA system. I'd take the telephone, the speaking part, and take those two leads off and lead them into the radio and the sound would come out of the speaker. ~ Les Paul

If you do what is easy, your life will be hard ~ Les Brown

Long-term, we must figure out a way that the Kurdish territory within Iraq operates with a certain amount of autonomy so that they feel comfortable and safe going back. ~ Les Aspin

Jamie Keehn, our second Australian punter. Again, you have to learn the language. You just can't speak to those guys. You have to know how to speak Australian ... Australians have a higher voice. When you just speak regular English, it doesn't quite get across. Of course, we've had experience with our Australians, so we're pretty comfortable with adjusting our dialect so that it fits the ability to communicate. ~ Les Miles

Each difference in a relationship represents an opportunity for the participants to grow and stretch. ~ Les Carter

Mais, vrai, J'ai trop pleure! Les aubes sont navrantes. What a sad and beautiful line that is. I'd always hoped that someday I'd be able to use it. ~ Donna Tartt

It is better to aim high and miss than to aim low and hit. ~ Les Brown

The werewolf by the moon. The wererat by money. (Loup garou par la lune. - Rat garou par les thunes.) ~ Charles De Leusse

Revolutionists are accused of sowing fear abroad. Every barricade seems a crime. Their theories are incriminated, their aim suspected, their ulterior motive is feared, their conscience denounced. They are reproached with raising, erecting, and heaping up, against the reigning social state, a mass of miseries, of griefs, of iniquities, of wrongs, of despairs, and of tearing from the lowest depths blocks of shadow in order therein to embattle themselves and to combat. People shout to them: "You are tearing up the pavements of hell!" They might reply: "That is because our barricade is made of good intentions. ~ Victor Hugo

If I have to go around telling everyone how great I am, then there's something wrong with my act. ~ Les Paul

Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical. ~ Les Brown

Comedians get jokes offered to them, rock stars get women and underwear thrown onstage, and I get guys that want to take me fishing. ~ Les Claypool