Pu La Quotes

I'm a big fan of moisturisers. Sometimes I'll just buy a night-time nourishing cream from The Body Shop, and sometimes I'll splurge on Creme de la Mer. I also love the Alba Botanica range. ~ Heather Graham

I'm really into the indie-music scene and listen to a lot of De La Soul. ~ J. R. Celski

They might all be drinking laced Kool-Aid in there, but she had a good head on her shoulders. Things like vampires and past lives and immortality just didn't exist in the real world. And Schuyler was a card-carrying member of the real world. She didn't want to check into CrazyTown any time soon. ~ Melissa De La Cruz

It is easier for a man to be thought fit for an employment that he has not, than for one he stands already possessed of, and is exercising. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Tourette's syndrome is seen in every race, every culture, every stratum of society; it can be recognized at a glance once one is attuned to it; and cases of barking and twitching, of grimacing, of strange gesturing, of involuntary cursing and blaspheming, were recorded by Aretaeus of Cappadocia almost two thousand years ago. Yet it was not clinically delineated until 1885, when Georges Gilles de la Tourette, a young French neurologist - a pupil of Charcot's and a friend of Freud's - put together these historical accounts with observations of some of his own patients. The syndrome as he described it was characterized, above all, by convulsive tics, ~ Oliver Sacks

The great interests of man: air and light, the joy of having a body, the voluptuousness of looking. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Impertinent wits are a kind of insect which are in everybody's way and plentiful in all countries. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

When he could stand it no longer, he fired a revolver up through the roof of his mouth, but he made a mess of it. ~ Ellen N. La Motte

I was thinking earlier that to know this city you must first become penniless, because pennilessness (real pennilessness, I mean not having $2 for the subway) forces you to walk everywhere and you see the city best on foot. ~ Emily St. John Mandel

Whatever pretended causes we may blame our afflictions upon, it is often nothing but self-interest and vanity that produce them. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

When we lavish our money we rob our heir; when we merely save it we rob ourselves. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

To pastors and teachers
Compose catechisms particularly to teach prayer, not by reasoning nor by method, for the simple are incapable thereof; but to teach the prayer of the heart, not of the understanding; the prayer of God's Spirit, not of man's invention.
Alas! By wanting them to pray in elaborate forms ... you create their chief obstacles. The children have been led astray from the best of fathers, by your endeavouring to teach them too refined, too polished a language ...
A father is much better pleased with an address which love and respect in the child throws into disorder, because he knows it proceeds from the heart, than by a formal and barren harangue, though ever so elaborate in the composition. The simple and undisguised emotions of filial love are infinitely more expressive than all language and all reasoning. ~ Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon

When I was young, I grew up in a family of working-class people. Not just my parents, but my extended family, as well. ~ Matt De La Pena

Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

An awareness of illness doesn't mean you're well, ~ Anders De La Motte

Hi! handsome hunting man
Fire your little gun.
Bang! Now the animal
is dead and dumb and done.
Nevermore to peep again, creep again, leap again,
Eat or sleep or drink again. Oh, what fun! ~ Walter De La Mare

Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I am made of beauty. I notice beauty all around me every day. I am beautifully blessed! ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

Love has this in common with scruples, that it becomes embittered by the reflections and the thoughts that beset us to free ourselves. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

When the soul is ruffled by the remains of one passion, it is more disposed to entertain a new one than when it is entirely curedand at rest from all. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I haven't said it yet, but it seemed implied, that cinema for me was the American one, current Hollywood productions. "My" period goes roughly from The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (Henry Hathaway, 1935) with Gary Cooper and Mutiny on the Bounty (Frank Lloyd, 1935) with Charles Laughton and Clark Gable, to the death of Jean Harlow (which I relived many years later like the death of Marilyn Monroe, in an era more aware of the neurotic power of every symbol), with lots of comedies in between, the mystery-romances with Myrna Loy and William Powell and the dog Asta, the musicals of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, the crime pictures of Chinese detective Charlie Chan and the horror films of Boris Karloff. I didn't remember the names of the directors as well as the names of the actors, except for a few like Frank Capra, Gregory La Cava, and Frank Borzage, who represented the poor rather than the millionaires, usually with Spencer Tracy: they were the good-natured directors from the Roosevelt era; I learned this later; back then I consumed everything without distinguishing between them too much. American cinema in that moment consisted of a collection of actors' faces without equal before or after (at least it seemed that way to me) and the adventures were simple mechanisms to get these faces together (sweethearts, character actors, extras) in different combinations. ~ Italo Calvino

The disabusing a man strongly possessed with an opinion of his own worth is the very same ill office that was done to the fool at Athens, who fancied all the ships that came into the harbor were his own. ~ Francois Alexandre Frederic, Duc De La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

Embrace paradox. Look for patterns.
Beethoven holds the key but doesn't know it yet.
Hiding inside your Shangri-La you might find the Gates of Hell ~ Mark Frost

In LA I was watching At the Movies with Ebert and Roper, it was, nice to see them differentiate between the subject matter and the art form of making the film, and they both gave it thumbs up, and I was kind of pleased at their honesty as far as reviewers go. ~ Michael Berryman

The strongest symptom of wisdom in man is his being sensible of his own follies. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the simplest man with passion is more persuasive than the most eloquent without it. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

You are me. And I cherish you. ~ Pietro De La Luna

I grew up in LA. I sort of watched the Raiders play and that sort of thing. ~ Jay Hernandez

On an impulse he cannot explain, he buys himself a one-way ticket - and the evening of that very same day finds him wandering the streets of the old colonial quarter of the Colombian town. Girls in love with boys on scooters, screeching birds, tropical flowers on winding vines, saudade, and solitude, One Hundred Years of it; and then, as the tropical dusk darkens the corners of the Plaza de la Adana, he sees a woman, her fingers toying with a necklace of lapis lazuli, and they stand still as the world eddies about them. ~ David Mitchell

But come back in November or December, in February or March, when the fog, la nebbia, settles upon the city like a marvelous monster, and you will have little trouble believing that things can appear and disappear in this labyrinthine city, or that time here could easily slip in its sprockets and take you, willingly or unwillingly, back. ~ Erica Jong

I remember when I was younger, there was a well-known writer who used to dart down the back way whenever saw me coming. I suppose he was in love with me and wasn't quite sure of himself. Well, c'est la vie! ~ Robert E. Sherwood

OK.So beside the possible extended lietime you live a normal human life? You what ... you have an apartment in LA? A life? A car? A girlfriend?" she threw in.
"Yes.Yes.Yes.Yes.No."
Ari grunted."We're back to one word answers?"
"Yes. ~ Samantha Young

Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

We have come to consider the word technique applicable only to movements that are so showy as to approach acrobatics ... ~ La Meri

Instead of fearing the future, I should live and enjoy the present, she told herself. ~ Melissa De La Cruz

Leave the rest all to me. You know. O boo de la thing.'
'What?' said Archie, in his turn.

'You know. The thing they say about camels. At the end of the trau …'

'You mean the thing Mr Crawford says,' said Archie with ungenerous malice. 'Au bout de la trace on trouve toujours ou le chameau ou le propriétaire du chameau.'

'That's it!' said Philippa. 'That's it exactly. Only of course,' she said cheerfully, 'Mr Crawford says it in French. ~ Dorothy Dunnett

Our wisdom lies as much at the mercy of fortune as our possessions do. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The wrought-iron gate squeaked as Lucas opened it. He lowered the rented bike down the stone steps and onto the sidewalk. To his right was the most famous Globe Hotel in Paris, disguised under another name. In front of the entrance five Curukians sat on mopeds. Lu-cas and his eighteen-month-old friend then shot out across the street and through the invisible beam of an-other security camera.
He rode diagonally across the place de la Concorde and headed toward the river. It seemed only natural. The motorcycles trailed him. He pedaled fast across the Alex-andre III bridge and zipped past Les Invalides hospital. He tried to turn left at the Rodin Museum, but Goper rode next to him, blocking his escape. ~ Paul Aertker

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give. ~ Jean De La Fontaine

The charities closest to my heart have always involved helping children in some way. ~ Oscar De La Renta

It's like most anything. If you want to be a loser, there's always a way to dwell on the negative. If you want to win, there's always a way to think positively. ~ Tony La Russa

Though most of the friendships of the world ill deserve the name of friendships; yet a man may make use of them on occasion, as of a traffic whose returns are uncertain, and in which 'tis usual to be cheated. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Remember that when you're young and your career feels like the most important thing, the most important thing is love and the relationships you have with people - boyfriend, friends and family. It's good to remember that. ~ Josephine De La Baume