Characteristics In French Quotes & Sayings

For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French forms on the other. The choice is between the nullity and vanity of our first efforts, and the developing of a sense of idiom, form, structure, metre, rhythm, line - all the fundamental characteristics of this verbal art. — James Fenton

And why do you have a pager? Are you a drug dealer? — Jen Mann

It is possible that, through horizontal and vertical lines constructed with awareness, but not with calculation, led by high intuition, and brought to harmony and rhythm, these basic forms of beauty, supplemented if necessary by other direct lines or curves, can become a work of art, as strong as it is true. — Piet Mondrian

Already lowered, and in it were four oarsmen and a coxswain. The — Alexandre Dumas

If you wanna know the truth, you make or break my day. If you wanna know the truth, I wouldn't have it any other way. — David Cook

Man is effective in the world not only through what he does, but above all through what he is. — Rudolf Steiner

Once I start putting all my little insecurities in my mind, I'm not actually acting. Then it's about me - and it should never be about me. It should be about the character. — Nicole Kidman

The acknowledgement that this person is English, white, or French, or German, this is Portuguese, this is Rwandan, this is Senegalese, this is a black South Africans is a glorious thing. To speak of those positively, to say that they have characteristics, each one of them, that the others almost always do not have, and that there is a complementarily about it. — Desmond Tutu

It is much easier for me to define what makes a novel French or Russian, but defining the characteristics of an Australian novel are difficult for me as it is all too close - I can't see the woods for the trees. — Robert Dessaix

A good coach always coaches to a leader's potential, not his current level of performance. A good leadership coach will see the potential in you and inspire you accordingly. — Andy Stanley

This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open. — Saint Augustine

Dude, you just got fucked up by a girl." Chico Rivera — Bella Jeanisse

As the creative adult needs to toy with ideas, the child, to form his ideas, needs toys
and plenty of leisure and scope to play with them as he likes, and not just the way adults think proper. This is why he must be given this freedom for his play to be successful and truly serve him well. — Bruno Bettelheim

That this individual life of all of us is not something limited in its temporal expression to the life that now we experience, follows from the very fact that here nothing final or individual is found expressed. — Josiah Royce