Eliette Mouret Quotes & Sayings

I look forward to an america in which commands respect throughout the world, not only for its strength, but for its civilization as well. And I look forward to a world in which we will be safe not only for democracy and diversity but also for personal distinction. — John F. Kennedy

Speaking of plunging into war, do you know why I think George W. Bush is so pissed off at Arabs? They brought us algebra. Also the numbers we use, including a symbol for nothing, which Europeans had never had before. You think Arabs are dumb? Try doing long division with Roman numerals. — Kurt Vonnegut

I can change only myself, but sometimes that is enough. — Ruth Humleker

Design is how you make your first impression with your consumers. Make sure it is a lasting one. — Jay Samit

I tried to make myself as pretty as possible and even then I thought I was ugly. I found it madly difficult to go out, to show myself. — Brigitte Bardot

More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind. — Konrad Lorenz

I feel love for all this, perhaps because I have nothing else to love ... even though nothing truly merits the love of any soul, if, out of sentiment, we must give it, I might as well lavish it on the smallness of an inkwell as on the grand indifference of the stars. — Fernando Pessoa

If you expect the world to be fair with you because you are fair, you're fooling yourself. That's like expecting the lion not to eat you because you didn't eat him. — John Spence

I don't know why, but people seem to be fascinated to learn how some members of society fall through the cracks. I think it's partly that feeling that... it could happen to anyone. But I think it also makes people feel better about their own lives. It makes them think, 'Well, I may think my life is bad, but it could be worse, I could be that poor sod. — James Bowen

Life is not a destination to be reached, but it is a journey to be enjoyed. — Debasish Mridha

Style," the well-known historian Peter Gay once wrote, "is not the dress of thought but part of its essence. — Marc Trachtenberg

When I was young, I never bought records because my brother Joseph played saxophone and had a record player. I loved listening to his records: The Dorsey Brothers, Duke Ellington, all the big American jazz bands, and vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald, Ernestine Anderson, and Kitty White, a singer from the US who was a friend of Nina Simone. Nobody in America seems to know about her, but she was quite popular in South Africa. — Miriam Makeba