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Georges Quotes By Georges Bataille

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaining it. — Georges Bataille

Georges Quotes By Georges St-Pierre

Only way to eliminate the element of surprise is to know yourself and now your adversary. — Georges St-Pierre

Georges Quotes By Georges Danton

To conquer [our enemies] we must dare, and dare again, and dare for ever; and thus will France be saved — Georges Danton

Georges Quotes By Georges Bernanos

God knows that we should not despise anything. We must do our best. — Georges Bernanos

Georges Quotes By Georges Bernanos

Do you think chance is really just the logic of God? — Georges Bernanos

Georges Quotes By Georges Bataille

The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest. — Georges Bataille

Georges Quotes By Georges Bataille

Extreme seductiveness is at the boundary of horror — Georges Bataille

Georges Quotes By Martin Filler

Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers's Centre Georges Pompidou of 1971-1977 - the true prototype of the modern museum as popular architectural spectacle - wound up costing so much more than planned that the French government solved the shortfall by cutting support for several regional museums. — Martin Filler

Georges Quotes By Georges Jacques Danton

In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels. — Georges Jacques Danton

Georges Quotes By Georges Perec

Who, on seeing a Parisian apartment house, has never thought of it as indestructible? A bomb, a fire, an earthquake could certainly bring it down, but what else? In the eyes of an individual, of a family, or even a dynasty, a town, street, or house seems unchangeable, untouchable by time, by the ups and downs of human life, to such an extent that we believe we can compare and contrast the fragility of our condition to the invulnerability of stone. — Georges Perec

Georges Quotes By Georges St-Pierre

When I train, I love to take time off and fly to the Natural History Museum or an exhibition. I just love that. When you know your past, it will help you with your future ... That's why most of my friends are not fighters. Most of my friends are nerds like me. That's why I have a hard time finding a girlfriend. I need someone to talk science with. I'm married to my work right now. But you never know. One day I could wake up and just do something different. Life is so unpredictable. — Georges St-Pierre

Georges Quotes By Georges St-Pierre

Respect is the most important thing. Be respectful toward others and have respect for yourself. — Georges St-Pierre

Georges Quotes By Georges Hebert

Come, my Way, my Truth, my Life:
Such a Way as gives us breath:
Such a Truth as ends all strife:
Such a Life as killeth death. — Georges Hebert

Georges Quotes By Georges Simenon

Madame ... gloatingly savored her words as earlier she had savored her pig's trotter. — Georges Simenon

Georges Quotes By Georges Perec

People who choose to earn money first, people who put off their real plans until later, until they are rich, are not necessarily wrong. People who want only to live, and who reckon living is absolute freedom, the exclusive pursuit of happiness, the sole satisfaction of their desires and instincts, the immediate enjoyment of the boundless riches of the world [ ... ] such people will always be unhappy. It is true [ ... ] that there are people for whom this kind of dilemma does not arise, or hardly arises, either because they are too poor and have no requirements beyond a slightly better diet, slightly better housing, slightly less work, or because they are too rich, from the start, to understand the import or even the meaning of such a distinction. But nowadays and in our part of the world, more and more people are neither rich nor poor: they dream of wealth, and could become wealthy; and that is where their misfortunes begin."
-from "Things: A Story of the Sixties — Georges Perec

Georges Quotes By Georges Seurat

Let's go and get drunk on light again - it has the power to console. — Georges Seurat

Georges Quotes By Georges Bernanos

Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it. — Georges Bernanos

Georges Quotes By Georges Bidault

I have plumbed the depth of human cowardice and I realized that there is only one way to be right, and that is to be in power. — Georges Bidault

Georges Quotes By Lady Gregory

The Georges were fair; they left all to the Government; but Anne was very bad and a tyrant. She tyrannised over the Irish. She died broken-hearted with all the bad things that were going on about her. For Queen Anne was very wicked; oh, very wicked, indeed! — Lady Gregory

Georges Quotes By Georges Bernanos

But I shall give less thought to the future, I shall work in the present. I feel such work is within my power. For I only succeed in small things, and when I am tried by anxiety, I am bound to say it is the small joys that release me. — Georges Bernanos

Georges Quotes By Georges Bizet

What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession. — Georges Bizet

Georges Quotes By Georges Doriot

Someone, somewhere, is making a product that will make your product obsolete. — Georges Doriot

Georges Quotes By Bret Hart

Each time I glanced into the rearview mirror, the black around my eyes was bigger and darker. Every once in a while Tom and I would look at each other with a silent acknowledgement that we had just worked our greatest match. When I think of it now, a quote from Georges Braque comes to mind: "Art is a wound turned to light." To my mind, that is also the beauty of pro wrestling. — Bret Hart

Georges Quotes By Georges St-Pierre

Innovation keeps me ahead of my competition. It means that my foes must adapt to me, not the other way around. — Georges St-Pierre

Georges Quotes By Georges Clemenceau

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty. — Georges Clemenceau

Georges Quotes By Georges Clemenceau

War is a series of disasters which result in a winner. — Georges Clemenceau

Georges Quotes By Georges Braque

I thought that from the moment someone else could do the same as myself, there was no difference between the pictures and they should not be signed. Afterwards I realized it was not so and began to sign my pictures again. Picasso had begun again anyhow. — Georges Braque

Georges Quotes By Jean-Georges Noverre

If our ballets be feeble, monotonous and dull, if they be devoid of ideas, meaning, expression and character, it is less the fault of the art than that of the artist. — Jean-Georges Noverre

Georges Quotes By Georges Braque

The space between the dish and the pitcher, that I paint also. — Georges Braque

Georges Quotes By Georges Bataille

What seems to be unspeakable weakness can sometimes be just distaste for the generally accepted morality. — Georges Bataille

Georges Quotes By Jean-Georges Vongerichten

For me, the good food starts with good product. — Jean-Georges Vongerichten

Georges Quotes By Georges St-Pierre

The truth is that I didn't start as a winner. When I was a kid, I was just another reject. I started at the bottom. I think all winners do. — Georges St-Pierre

Georges Quotes By Georges Limbour

You speak of the hand of Fatma, my friends, but you do not know the terrible power of this hand, the hand of monsters that menace you and seduce you with their subterranean access, their metallic splintering, their inhuman grotesqueness of idols. — Georges Limbour

Georges Quotes By Diana Gabaldon

No!" shouted the prisoner, his voice rising above the others, anger lost in terror. "No, please! I told you all I - " There was a small sound, a hollow noise like a melon being kicked in, and the voice stopped. "Thrifty, our captain," Big Georges said, under his breath. "Why waste a bullet?" He took his hand off Ian's shoulder, shook his head, and knelt down to wash his hands. - — Diana Gabaldon

Georges Quotes By Jean-Georges Vongerichten

I am a huge supporter of the Waxman foundation. — Jean-Georges Vongerichten

Georges Quotes By Paul Auster

I would say that Edgar Allan Poe, [Georges] Perec, Thomas Pynchon, and [Jorge Luis] Borges are all boy-writers. These are writers who take ... a kind of demonic joy in writing. — Paul Auster

Georges Quotes By Georges Clemenceau

War is too important to be left to the generals — Georges Clemenceau

Georges Quotes By David Seed

The urge to impose a single classification on SF ignores the generic hybridity of many novels: incorporation of the Gothic in The Island of Dr Moreau, of Shakespeare's The Tempest in Forbidden Planet, and so on. The rise of film coincides with the emergence of science fiction. The relation between SF fiction and film has included an ongoing fascination with spectacle and extraordinary special effects like those pioneered in Georges Melies's A Trip to the Moon (1902) and The Impossible Voyage (1904). — David Seed

Georges Quotes By Georges Duhamel

The desire for order is the only order in the world. — Georges Duhamel

Georges Quotes By Jean-Georges Noverre

The abuse of the best things is always detrimental. — Jean-Georges Noverre

Georges Quotes By Jean-Georges Vongerichten

I have 20 restaurants. And if one doesn't work, it doesn't work. — Jean-Georges Vongerichten

Georges Quotes By David Mitchell

The art teacher's scarlet book was called Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille. 'As the title suggests,' Mr Dunwoody saw the book'd caught my attention, 'it's about the history of opticians. What are you about? — David Mitchell

Georges Quotes By Georges Clemenceau

America is the only civilization in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization — Georges Clemenceau

Georges Quotes By Jean-Georges Vongerichten

For friends, I love to make bruschetta. I grill country bread with Frantoia olive oil and make toppings, like crab, roasted squash, mushrooms, whatever's seasonal. — Jean-Georges Vongerichten

Georges Quotes By Jean-Georges Vongerichten

I love cooking, but I love the business, too. It's important because a lot of chefs forget the business side and have to shut down after six months. — Jean-Georges Vongerichten

Georges Quotes By Georges Bataille

Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion. — Georges Bataille

Georges Quotes By Georges St-Pierre

Set your goal and keep moving forward. — Georges St-Pierre

Georges Quotes By Georges F. Doriot

A popular Harvard business professor urged his students to read the obituaries in the New York Times before they read anything else, in order to learn from the lives of great men. — Georges F. Doriot

Georges Quotes By Georges Braque

The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal fact, but with constitution of a pictorial fact. — Georges Braque

Georges Quotes By Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

I am convinced, by repeated observation, that marbles, lime-stones, chalks, marls, clays, sand, and almost all terrestrial substances, wherever situated, are full of shells and other spoils of the ocean. — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

Georges Quotes By Georges Clemenceau

The best time of love, is when one goes up the stairs. — Georges Clemenceau

Georges Quotes By Georges Braque

I couldn't portray a woman in all her natural loveliness ... I haven't the skill. No one has. I must, therefore, create a new sort of beauty ... — Georges Braque

Georges Quotes By Georges Duhamel

We can know nothing till after this grave debate. The soul must withdraw, for this is not its hour. Now the knife must divide the flesh, and lay the ravage bare, and do its work completely. — Georges Duhamel

Georges Quotes By Georges Braque

The things that Picasso and I said to one another during those years will never be said again, and even if they were, no one would understand them anymore. It was like being roped together on a mountain. — Georges Braque

Georges Quotes By Georges St-Pierre

You always recognize great champions ... how they come back from a loss. — Georges St-Pierre

Georges Quotes By Georges Braque

To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself. — Georges Braque

Georges Quotes By Georges Simenon

If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily. — Georges Simenon

Georges Quotes By Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

In Ireland, there are the same fossils, the same shells and the same sea bodies, as appear in America, and some of them are found in no other part of Europe. — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

Georges Quotes By Kat Georges

History is finite-there's only so much you can learn about a six square block historic district in New York City. (Dark City Lights) — Kat Georges

Georges Quotes By Georges Duhamel

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory. — Georges Duhamel

Georges Quotes By Georges Simenon

They never addressed each other by name, nor were they in the habit of exchanging endearments. What was the point, since both felt that, in many ways, they were one person? — Georges Simenon

Georges Quotes By Georges Braque

Out of limitations, new forms emerge — Georges Braque

Georges Quotes By Georges Palante

There will come a moment when social chains will wound almost no one, lacking people sufficiently enamored of independence and sufficiently individualized to feel these chains and suffer from them. Lacking combatants, the combat will come to an end. The small independent minority will become increasingly small.

But however small it might be, it will suffer from the increased social pressure. It will represent, in this time of almost perfect conformism and generalized social contentment, pessimism and individualism. — Georges Palante

Georges Quotes By Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

Ignorance produced genera, and science produced, and will continue to produce, proper names; nor of these shall we be afraid to increase the number, whenever we shall have occasion to denote different species. — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

Georges Quotes By Georges Cuvier

It is in this mutual dependence of the functions and the aid which they reciprocally lend one another that are founded the laws which determine the relations of their organs and which possess a necessity equal to that of metaphysical or mathematical laws, since it is evident that the seemly harmony between organs which interact is a necessary condition of existence of the creature to which they belong and that if one of these functions were modified in a manner incompatible with the modifications of the others the creature could no longer continue to exist. — Georges Cuvier

Georges Quotes By Georges St-Pierre

It's not always the strong that survive. It takes brains, guts, tolerance and forward thinking. — Georges St-Pierre

Georges Quotes By Georges Simenon

The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world. — Georges Simenon

Georges Quotes By Georges Bataille

Eroticism is the approval of life unto death. — Georges Bataille

Georges Quotes By Georges Limbour

Harton thought that if one squeezed humanity through a wine press, its essence would flow out as drops of policemen. — Georges Limbour

Georges Quotes By Georges St-Pierre

Fear is the genesis of most of the good things that have occurred in my life. Fear is the beginning of every success I've lived. — Georges St-Pierre

Georges Quotes By Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

Style is the essence of man — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

Georges Quotes By Georges Simenon

I'm a bit like a sponge. When I'm not writing I absorb life like water. When I write I squeeze the sponge a little - and out comes, not water but ink. — Georges Simenon

Georges Quotes By Georges St-Pierre

The purpose is to become the best writer in my category (yes, page for page and pound for pound). — Georges St-Pierre

Georges Quotes By Eoin Colfer

A pity to survive night flights over St. Georges Channel only to crack my skull falling from a ladder. — Eoin Colfer

Georges Quotes By Georges Bernanos

Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice, but of a sly effective order, based entirely on cruel knowledge of the resistance of the weak, their capacity for pain, humilation and misery. Injustice sustained at the exact degree of necessary tension to turn the cogs of the huge machine-for-the-making-of-rich-men, without bursting the boiler. — Georges Bernanos

Georges Quotes By Georges Cuvier

It has been long considered possible to explain the more ancient revolutions on ... the Earth surface by means of these still existing causes; in the same manner as it is found easy to explain past events in political history, by an acquaintance with the passions and intrigues of the present day. But we shall presently see that unfortunately this is not the case in physical history:-the thread of operation is here broken, the march of nature is changed, and none of the agents that she now employs were sufficient for the production of her ancient works. — Georges Cuvier

Georges Quotes By Georges Perec

Like the librarians of Babel in Borges's story, who are looking for the book that will provide them with the key to all the others, we oscillate between the illusion of perfection and the vertigo of the unattainable. In the name of completeness, we would like to believe that a unique order exists that would enable us to accede in knowledge all in one go; in the name of the unattainable, we would like to think that order and disorder are in fact the same word, denoting pure chance.
It's possible also that both are decoys, illusions intended to disguise the erosion of both books and systems. It is no bad thing in any case that between the two our bookshelves should serve from time to time as joggers of the memory, as cat-rests and as lumber-rooms. — Georges Perec

Georges Quotes By Georges St-Pierre

Using your imagination to create mental images stimulates your mind, helps organize your life and keeps your focus in a particular direction. It allows your unconscious mind to work toward the image you have created, the goal. It's about understand the life you want to live, and seeing it unfold before you. — Georges St-Pierre

Georges Quotes By Georges Bataille

I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction. — Georges Bataille

Georges Quotes By Georges Bidault

The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong. — Georges Bidault

Georges Quotes By Stephen Sondheim

We lose things.
And then we choose things.
And there are Louis's
And there are Georges-
Well, Louis's
And George. — Stephen Sondheim

Georges Quotes By Georges Bataille

Out of despair I decided to follow this horror through. I stared down at what I was already grasping in my hand, like an ape; I wrapped myself in the dust and took off my trousers.
Interwoven joy and terror strangled me within. I strangled and I gasped from pleasure. The more those pictures terrified me, the more intense was my excitement at the sight of them. After days of accumulating alarms, tensions, suffocations, I was beyond withstanding my own ignominy. I invoked it and I blessed it. It was my inevitable fate: my joy was all the greater since, with regard to life, I had long since entrenched myself in an attitude of suffering, and now, in the throes of delight, I progressed even farther into vileness and degradation. — Georges Bataille

Georges Quotes By Georges Bizet

As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note. — Georges Bizet

Georges Quotes By Georges Courteline

It is very hard to be in love with someone who no longer loves you, but it is far worse to be loved by someone with whom you are no longer in love. — Georges Courteline

Georges Quotes By Georges Braque

One has to guard against a formula that is good for everything, that can interpret reality in addition to the other arts, and that rather than creating can only result in a style, or a stylization. — Georges Braque

Georges Quotes By Jean-Georges Noverre

The defect in wisdom and taste which exists among the majority of dancers is due to the bad education which they generally receive. They apply themselves only to the material side of their art, they learn to jump more or less high, they strive mechanically to execute a number of steps, and like children, who utter a great many words devoid of sense and relation, they execute many phrases of steps devoid of taste and grace. — Jean-Georges Noverre

Georges Quotes By Rebecca Stead

I would never look a gift horse in the mouth. I've had some lovely homemade earrings and, recently, a wall hanging made in the style of Georges Seurat. — Rebecca Stead

Georges Quotes By Georges Didi-Huberman

Does inadequacy not characterize all that we make use of to perceive and describe the world? Are the signs of language not just as inadequate, albeit differently, as are images? — Georges Didi-Huberman

Georges Quotes By Georges Braque

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry. — Georges Braque

Georges Quotes By Georges Cuvier

Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on the terrestrial quadrupeds than on the marine animals. — Georges Cuvier

Georges Quotes By Georges Bataille

At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear ... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better. — Georges Bataille

Georges Quotes By Georges Courteline

If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable. — Georges Courteline

Georges Quotes By Georges St-Pierre

One of the important lessons I learned from my parents is always to respect authority figures like teachers. — Georges St-Pierre

Georges Quotes By Georges Bataille

Only literature could reveal the process of breaking the law - without which the law would have no end - independently of the necessity to create order. — Georges Bataille

Georges Quotes By Georges Danton

To dare, and again dare, and forever dare! — Georges Danton

Georges Quotes By Georges Bataille

A man who finds himself among others is irritated because he does not know why he is not one of the others.
In bed next to a girl he loves, he forgets that he does not know why he is himself instead of the body he touches.
Without knowing it, he suffers from the mental darkness that keeps him from screaming that he himself is the girl who forgets his presence while shuddering in his arms. — Georges Bataille

Georges Quotes By Georges Clemenceau

The Germans may take Paris, but that will not prevent me from going on with the war. We will fight on the Loire, we will fight on the Garronne, we will fight even in the Pyrenees. And if at last we are driven off the Pyrenees, we will continue the war at sea. — Georges Clemenceau

Georges Quotes By Georges Perec

As the hours, the days, the weeks, the seasons slip by, you detach yourself from everything. You discover, with something that sometimes almost resembles exhilaration, that you are free. That nothing is weighing you down, nothing pleases or displeases you. You find, in this life exempt from wear and tear and with no thrill in it other than these suspended moments, in almost perfect happiness, fascinating, occasionally swollen by new emotions. You are living in a blessed parenthesis, in a vacuum full of promise, and from which you expect nothing. You are invisible, limpid, transparent. You no longer exist. Across the passing hours, the succession of days, the procession of the seasons, the flow of time, you survive without joy and without sadness. Without a future and without a past. Just like that: simply, self evidently, like a drop of water forming on a drinking tap on a landing. — Georges Perec

Georges Quotes By Jean-Georges Vongerichten

The toughest decision is always whether to open a restaurant. Two or three bad months, and you could be out of business. — Jean-Georges Vongerichten

Georges Quotes By Georges Duhamel

I can no longer think what I want to think. My thoughts have been replaced by moving images. — Georges Duhamel