Jacques Cousteau Quotes

The Jacques Cousteau shows actually got me very excited about the fact that there's an alien world here on Earth. ~ James Cameron

He's not lying. I can assure you, he's part fish. Jacques Cousteau has nothing on him. Aquaman, either. (Solin) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

Jacques Cousteau, the last man to see Jimmy Hoffa. Never got a dinner! ~ Red Buttons

The earliest memories I have of the ocean are actually stories - stories from my grandfather, the legendary ocean explorer and conservationist Jacques Cousteau. My passion for ocean conservation stems from learning at a very young age that we're all connected; we're all in this together. ~ Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

Here I go, deep type flow,
Jacques Cousteau could never get this low. ~ Ol' Dirty Bastard

There's about as much educational benefit studying dolphins in captivity as there would be studying mankind by only observing prisoners held in solitary. ~ Jacques Cousteau

My grandfather was Jacques Cousteau, a pioneer of ocean exploration and the co-inventor of scuba diving. Back in the 1940s when he tested out his invention which allowed humans to swim freely in the ocean with a portable air source for the first time in history, very little of the ocean had been explored let alone captured on film. ~ Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

See, I've always seen Jacques Cousteau as a hero, mate. He's a legend - like my dad, just a legend. And so what he did for conservation in the '60s through the '70s was just phenomenal. ~ Steve Irwin

Chance alone is at the source of all novelty, all creation in the biosphere. ~ Jacques Monod

You'd have to be an imbecile or hypocrite to imagine that a professional cyclist who rides 235 days a year can hold himself together without stimulants. ~ Jacques Anquetil

Historical reality has two sides. One is made ​​up of facts, events, material realities, and one of the ideas, images and dreams. ~ Jacques Le Goff

British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained. ~ Jean-Jacques Annaud

I don't understand the concept of always trying to make F1 go slower and slower and slower and have less and less power. ~ Jacques Villeneuve

Didn't you just turn eighteen, Jen?" Vasile asked her.
Jen looked a little confused at his choice of response. "Umm, yes. I believe that loud racket you heard a couple of weeks ago was Sally and Jacque's idea of a birthday party. What does that have to do with me leaving?"
"If you are eighteen, Jen, you are an adult. I can't make you stay here. If you want to leave, if you really think that is the best thing for you, then you can go. I will allow you to use the pack plane to get back to the U.S. if that is truly what you want," Vasile explained.
Jen cocked her head to the side, eyes narrowed at the Alpha sitting calmly in front of her. "Just like that? No trying to convince me to stay, or telling me not to give up, or yada yada yada bull crap?"
"No 'yada yada yada bull crap'," he agreed.
"Huh, okay then. ~ Quinn Loftis

Throughout his life the memory of that happy day stayed locked secretly in (his) heart. ~ Brian Jacques

Economic life, not in its content but in its direction, will henceforth entirely elude popular control. No democracy is possible in the face of a perfected economic technique. the decisions of the voters, and even of the elected, are oversimplified, incoherent, and technically inadmissible. It is a grave illusion to believe that democratic control or decision-making can be reconciled with economic technique. ~ Jacques Ellul

Where the costs of entry are minimal, there is a wide avenue of opportunity for those with little or nothing, which is why football is just about the most democratic sport of all: African and Brazilian footballers compete on a level playing field with their rich white European counterparts. ~ Martin Jacques

The angel of death can hardly have friends. And the prom, what about Danny? He can hardly have a Valkyrie for his date. ~ Jacques Antoine

It is only true inasmuch as it is truly followed. ~ Jacques Lacan

The feeling I got from rallycross was a little bit more of the NASCAR aspect of it; it's a family of races where racing is a passion, and it's not the politics that come with it. ~ Jacques Villeneuve

Art is a creative effort of which the wellsprings lie in the spirit, and which brings us at once the most intimate self of the artist and the secret concurrences which he has perceived in things by means of a vision or intuition all his own, and not to be expressed in ideas and in words-expressible only in the work of art. ~ Jacques Maritain

The qualities which technique requires for its advance are precisely those characteristics of a technical order which do not represent indivisual intelligence ... The individual, in order to make use of technical instruments, no longer needs to know about his civilization. ~ Jacques Ellul

Phoenix is an interesting example. Drive around and see the golf courses everywhere, and you see people's big green lawns. And you live in a desert! I've always remarked about the capacity of human beings to look at somewhere and move there because of its uniqueness and its beauty and then change it. ~ Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

Even if we're in a state of hopelessness, a sense of expectation is an integral part of our relationship to time. Hopelessness is possible only because we do hope that some good, loving someone could come. If that's what Heidegger meant, then I agree with him. ~ Jacques Derrida

The Ethical can therefore end up making us irresponsible. ~ Jacques Derrida

Men speak from knowledge, women from imagination. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

At first we will only skim the surface of the earth like young starlings, but soon, emboldened by practice and experience, we will spring into the air with the impetuousness of the eagle, diverting ourselves by watching the childish behavior of the little men or awling miserably around on the earth below us. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nécessité absolue trouver origine de cet emmerdement [It is absolutely necessary to find the origin of this pain in the ass]. - Jacques Monod ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

Isolated and limited vision problem. ~ Jacques Chirac

The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is easier to compare oneself, to establish social exchange as that swapmeet of glory and contempt where each person receives a superiority in exchange for the inferiority he confesses to. ~ Jacques Ranciere

Man is born free but today everywhere he is in chains. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Mission 31 pays homage to my grandfather's work and all aquanauts who have since followed his lead in the name of ocean exploration. ~ Fabien Cousteau

Cinema plus Psychoanalysis equals the Science of Ghosts. ~ Jacques Derrida

The animals you eat are not those who devour others; you do not eat the carnivorous beasts, you take them as your pattern. You only hunger for the sweet and gentle creatures which harm no one, which follow you, serve you, and are devoured by you as the reward of their service. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist. ~ Jacques-Louis David

When one has suffered or fears suffering, one pities those who suffer; but when one is suffering, one pities only oneself. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

If the ruler wants to play the game by himself and follow secret policies, he must present a decoy to the masses. He cannot escape the mass; but he can draw between himself and that mass an invisible curtain, a screen, on which the mass will see projected the mirage of some politics, while the real politics are being made behind it. ~ Jacques Ellul

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Reward is a happy customer - and an empty plate. ~ Jacques Torres

In all the ills that befall us, we are more concerned by the intention than the result. A tile that falls off a roof may injure us more seriously, but it will not wound us so deeply as a stone thrown deliberately by a malevolent hand. The blow may miss, but the intention always strikes home. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

An event is never just what it is in itself and nothing more. It's what goes on around it, at the same time, that makes it - potentially - a tragic situation.

You have to have been exposed to this, at least once, to understand it. ~ Jacques Yonnet

A totally blind process can by definition lead to anything; it can even lead to vision itself. ~ Jacques Monod

I think just about everything has been tackled, but it may be that things will be done again, only better and differently. ~ Jacques-Henri Lartigue

From an analytic point of view, the only thing one can be guilty of is having given ground relative to one's desire (Seminar 7, 319) ~ Jacques Lacan

the despot assures his subjects civil tranquillity. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The poet ... is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, beyond even signs and names, and the sophist manipulates empty signs ... the poet plays on the multiplicity of signifieds. ~ Jacques Derrida

Smell is the sense of memory and desire. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Capitalist societies can always heave a sigh of relief and say to themselves: communism is finished since the collapse of the totalitarianisms of the twentieth century and not only is it finished, but it did not take place, it was only a ghost They do no more than disavow the undeniable itself. a ghost never dies, it remains always to come and to come-back. ~ Jacques Derrida

Surviving - that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited. ~ Jacques Derrida

Pick-a-lock, Pick-a-lock, you'll regret the day,
When you took a mouse thief and locked him away,
Silly cat, look at that, it's two for one,
A thief and a warrior, by dawn will be gone. ~ Brian Jacques

Men are so isolated, prisoners of their own wretched selves, that they can be unbelievably sociable. ~ Jacques Yonnet