Detendre Quotes & Sayings

I didn't understand how funny this play Much Ado About Nothing truly was until I became an English teacher and had to teach it. There is no wittier dialogue anywhere. — Dan Brown

French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic. — Bernard Pivot

I'm an indoors person. I'm not afraid of the outdoors and I penetrate it easily and cheerfully. However, I must admit I like Central Park better than the wilderness, and I like the canyons of Manhattan better than Central Park, and I like the interior of my apartment better than the canyons of Manhattan, and I like my two rooms better with the shades down at all times than with the shades up. I'm not an agoraphobe at all, but I am a claustrophile, if you see the distinction. — Isaac Asimov

We are not saints, gods, spiritual human beings that we can sit and decide whether a film will do well or not. It is not in our hands. — Rani Mukerji

The research reported on in our book "A=B", has moved a whole active field of mathematics from the province of human thought to the realm of computer-fodder. It is quite exciting to think about what other fields of pure mathematics, hitherto thought to be reserved to human intelligence, might be moved to that realm next. The goal is to put ourselves out of business completely, and the work is well underway. — Herbert Wilf

The rock star stuff never came up for us. The Band was never attacked by groupies before, during or after any show that we ever played. — Levon Helm

Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words. — Plautus

He was like a shattered stained-glass window: something beautiful that's broken; a million colours fallen on the ground where no light can get through. — Glenda Millard

She liked to be near him now that she had thought of a way to prove to him that life had taught her to understand and love him. — Glenway Wescott

As an economic doctrine it does not stand up to scientific probing. Marx's economic theories are not a scientific account of the nature and extent of exploitation under capitalism. They nevertheless offer a vivid picture of an uncontrolled society in which the productive workers unconsciously create the instruments of their own oppression. It is a picture of human alienation, writ large as the dominance of past labour, or capital, over living labour. — Anonymous