Francoise Bettencourt Quotes & Sayings

There are few persons of greater worth than their reputation; but how many are there whose worth is far short of their reputation! — Stanislaw Leszczynski

I got Soul Power, never took a cold shower,
Never had a girlfriend the color of cooking flour. — J-Ro

As a coach, you've got to do what's best for the team. If guys don't like it, they're going to leave. If they stay and don't like it, well, your team's going to suck anyway. Even if this happens, you still have to do it. You can't coach worrying about any individual. — Doc Rivers

Since there is no single set of abilities running throughout human nature, there is no single curriculum which all should undergo. Rather, the schools should teach everything that anyone is interested in learning. — John Dewey

...either I'm losing my mind, or I saw mermaids." --Alec Costner, The Mermaid Coast — Robert Woolcott

My problem is that the audience is more fiction-literate than ever. In Shakespeare's day, you probably expected to see a play once or twice in your life; today you experience four or five different kinds of fiction every day. So staying ahead of the audience is impossible. — Steven Moffat

It is sweet to see how soon a spring becomes a rill, and a rill runs on into a rivulet, and a rivulet swells into a brook; and before one has time to say 'what are you at?' - before the first tree it ever spoke to is a dummy, or the first hill it ever ran down has turned blue, here we all have airs and graces, demands and assertions of a full grown river. — R.D. Blackmore

Where does a wise man hide a pebble?" And the tall man answered in a low voice: "On the beach." The small man nodded, and after a short silence said: "Where does a wise man hide a leaf?" And the other answered: "In the forest. — G.K. Chesterton

To focus means to bring your attention to the center, to concentrate on one thing intently in order to gain clarity. — Cheryl Richardson

The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was that my father didn't believe in God, and so he had no hang-ups about souls. — James D. Watson

Love is a continual interrogation. I don't know of a better definition of love. — Milan Kundera

You are a free man, and let no organization come between you and your best interests. Do not let any man, or any body of men, tell you where you shall work, or where you shall not work, when you shall work, or when, you shall not work. If a man wants to belong to a labor organization, let him belong. If he does not want to belong to a labor organization, let him have perfect liberty to stay out. You own yourself. Let no man put a manacle on your hand, or foot, or head, or heart. — Thomas De Witt Talmage

The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times. A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever. — Al Pacino

The world is divided into three parts of which two parts are meat balls and spaghetti and the other part a huge syphilitic chancre.
(revised, correct quote) — Henry Miller

The sonatas of Mozart are unique; they are too easy for children, and too difficult for artists. — Artur Schnabel