Luc Quotes & Sayings

I called the great French violinist Jean-Luc Ponty and I said 'So, who's the new cat? Who's got the stuff? And he said Zach Brock. — Stanley Clarke

Those visits to the beautician allowed me to reproduce on my body those red dots of Luc's that I knew by heart. I think that on the day when I have all those red dots tattooed, if I were to join them, I would be drawing the map if his destiny on my body. And maybe on that day he will show up at my door, take me by the hand as he always did instinctively, and stop me from saying "Disaster" as he kisses me. — Kim Thuy

The idle always have a mind to do something. — Luc De Clapiers

Hope animates the wise, and lures the presumptuous and indolent who repose inconsiderately on her promises. — Luc De Clapiers

The favorites of fortune or of fame topple from their pedestals before our eyes without diverting us from ambition. — Luc De Clapiers

Luc would have put my head on a pike if you'd taken a hit." "How do you know I didn't?" I opened my mouth, then closed it again. "Did you?" His eyes went to sultry slits. "Do you want to look and see?" "Not especially." Liar, liar, pants on fire. — Chloe Neill

Indolence is the sleep of the mind. — Luc De Clapiers

Is it against justice or reason to love ourselves? And why is self-love always a vice? — Luc De Clapiers

Evil is in the existent as its innermost possibility of refusing existence — Jean-Luc Nancy

Consciousness of our strength increases it. — Luc De Clapiers

I was thinking that I should be content to kiss him until the break of day. Bertrand ran out of kisses too soon; desire made them superfluous in his eyes. They were only a stage on the road to pleasure, not something inexhaustible and self-sufficient, as Luc had revealed them to me. — Francoise Sagan

The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious. — Luc De Clapiers

Look, I've been doing this a long time. If I'm honest with you, then yes. The Families could have done both. The car thing is absolutely their style, like you said."

Luc frowned. "But you don't think they did it."

David shook his head. "No. Because you're alive. The Families wouldn't screw up twice." He left, closing the door behind him.

"If that was supposed to make me feel better," Curtis said, "it needed way more puppies. Or something from the chocolate family. — Nathan Burgoine

Hope is the only good thing that disillusion respects. — Luc De Clapiers

What is your greatest ambition in life?'
'To become immortal ... and then die. — Jean-Luc Godard

Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure. — Luc De Clapiers

When we are convinced of some great truths, and feel our convictions keenly, we must not fear to express it, although others have said it before us. Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself. — Luc De Clapiers

Yes," Bernarde quipped, "Deal with me, Jean Luc. Come and dance with the night, brother. Let us battle 'till the sun turns us to ash. — Katerina Martinez

Do you really think that I don't have anything better to do than to spend my time thinking about you? Digging up a little of the goods on Luc Martineau?"
Fine lines appeared at the corners of his eyes and he laughed. "Sweetheart, there is nothing little about Luc's goods. — Rachel Gibson

Good films get smaller audiences, but more of the viewer. — Jean-Luc Godard

If you ask people to remember a painting and a photograph, their description of the photograph is far more accurate than that of the painting. Strangely enough, there is a physical element intertwined with the painting. It shakes loose an emotional element within the viewer. — Luc Tuymans

All art is failure. How one fails is a different matter. — Luc Tuymans

When I got the camera on the shoulder, they give me a nickname. They call me 'the tripod' because I'm kind of short and kind of strong. So if I take the camera and I lock myself, you think that you're on a crane. — Luc Besson

Without taking chances, you'll never be happy. — Sara Claridge

I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing - it wasn't enough to play other people's notes: I had to write notes too. — Luc Ferrari

The idea of the live-virus vaccine is to produce in a continuous way some viral antigens. — Luc Montagnier

True knowledge is not to be had solely through a combat against error, bad faith and untruth, but more generally, through a combat against the illusions inherent in the sensible world. — Luc Ferry

Nothing endures except truth. — Luc De Clapiers

Every edit is a lie. — Jean-Luc Godard

Everyone is born sincere and dies deceivers. — Luc De Clapiers

Filmmaking has always involved pairs: a director coupled with a producer, a director alongside an editor ... The notion of couples is not foreign to cinema. — Luc Dardenne

Phones on, and stay alert," Luc said. "And tell Jonah we said hello." "Lucas," Ethan politely said, "kiss my ass. — Chloe Neill

The problem, however, is that I have yet to meet anyone, materialist or otherwise, who was able to dispense with value judgements. On the contrary, the literature of materialism is peculiarly marked by its wholesale profusion of denunciations of all sorts. Starting with Marx and Nietzsche, materialists have never been able to refrain from passing continuous moral judgement on all and sundry, which their whole philosophy might be expected to discourage them from doing. — Luc Ferry

Truth is not so threadbare as speech, because fewer people can make use of it. — Luc De Clapiers

If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself, I shall reply; I have been wrong once or more often, however I do not aspire to be always wrong. — Luc De Clapiers

It's very difficult in our society. You cannot impose certain behavioral changes. Education can do it at the right time, probably by high school. After that it is too late. — Luc Montagnier

I thought if I quit looking around for you, I would forget you. I thought if I avoided you, I could get you out of my head. But it didn't work. — Rachel Gibson

Better beware of the newly dead

Of the white-handed ghost

And the brightness of these lamps . . .

wrote Luc Berimont in 1940, in Reign of Darkness.

I've always felt the greatest reluctance to go anywhere near, to touch, a fresh corpse. For me, it's an unseemly thing. Useless. Hostile. Cunning. Dangerous. The 'presence' is much stronger, more perceptible one hour after death than one hour before. By my observation, this was not the case with Heisserer.

He was entirely absent from his head, his hands,his quivering body. He was gone instantly, unburdened of his absurd life, released. — Jacques Yonnet

If you want to make a documentary you should automatically go to the fiction, and if you want to nourish your fiction you have to come back to reality. — Jean-Luc Godard

What seems to be clear to me is that after the primary infection most of the cells die indirectly, but at the later stage, when the viral load is very high, the virus kills a lot of cells directly. — Luc Montagnier

I won't be able to do a film just for bad reasons, for money or for - I just can't. If I have one more where I feel I can bring you something, I will do it. — Luc Besson

To be immortal and then die — Jean-Luc Godard

My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me. — Luc Ferrari

It cannot be a vice in men to be sensible of their strength. — Luc De Clapiers

Redheaded Peckerwood, which unerringly walks the fine line between fiction and nonfiction, is a disturbingly beautiful narrative about unfathomable violence and its place on the land — Luc Sante

Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses. — Luc De Clapiers

Luc Robitaille is a great kid and good player, but ask anybody on the street and they'd probably think Luc Robitaille is a type of salad dressing. — Bruce McNall

Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers. — Luc De Clapiers

Luc sighed as he raised his hands. "Look, this is not a trap, a test, or a drill. Archer's here, too. He's waiting for us, actually, and I'm more than willing to explain everything to you, but I'm not doing it standing here. Not when I found a Lunchables just a few minutes before you guys showed up, and I'm ready to make myself a delicious buffet of ham and cheese on crackers.
I stared at him.
"What? It's the kind that has Oreo cookies included," he replied. "That shit is banging. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

It is of no use to possess a lively wit if it is not of the right proportion: the perfection of a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate. — Luc De Clapiers

What perhaps should receive more attention is the effect of the treatment on the virus. — Luc Montagnier

Wesley Crusher: Say goodbye, Data.
Lt. Cmdr. Data: Goodbye, Data.
[crew laughs]
Lt. Cmdr. Data: Was that funny?
Wesley Crusher: [laughs]
Lt. Cmdr. Data: Accessing. Ah! Burns and Allen, Roxy Theater, New York City, 1932. It still works.
[pauses]
Lt. Cmdr. Data: Then there was the one about the girl in the nudist colony, that nothing looked good on?
Lieutenant Worf: We're ready to get under way, sir.
Lt. Cmdr. Data: Take my Worf, please.
Commander William T. Riker: [to Captain Picard] Warp speed, sir?
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Please. — Star Trek The Next Generation

Since most of the transmission is sexual transmission, you have a regional or local response to the virus. — Luc Montagnier

Patience is the art of hoping. — Luc De Clapiers

Give help rather than advice. — Luc De Clapiers

When we feel that we lack whatever is needed to secure someone else's esteem, we are very close to hating him — Luc De Clapiers

The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat. — Luc De Clapiers

I am very puzzled by the fact that young people are getting infected again. They don't take precautions despite an enormous amount of information. It's like riding a race car at 200 kilometers an hour. Some people like the risk. — Luc Montagnier

Reportage is interesting only when placed in a fictional context, but fiction is interesting only if it is validated by a documentary context. — Jean-Luc Godard

I don't think I could ever have a desk job, so I get to be mobile. I'm on set. I get to walk around kind of doing my own thing, being independent - it's just a really good vibe. Everyone on a film set is very happy, and they all love their jobs, so it's a cool environment to be a part of. — Jean-Luc Bilodeau

Hope deceives more men than cunning does. — Luc De Clapiers

Consciousness of our powers augments them. — Luc De Clapiers

That is why it is so important not only to have excellent treatment but also to try to get back the immune defense, because there you have a natural defense that takes place everywhere. — Luc Montagnier

Call yourself "Colonel" and declare that your fortune was left to you by Dutch burghers from the seventeenth century. Now you're a solid citizen, the embodiment of hard work and rugged individualism. You're no criminal. The criminal is the guy who comes up short, who gets caught, who fails to adopt a respectable cover. — Luc Sante

The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires. — Jean-Luc Godard

When sex gets problematic, the totalitarianist walks in. — Jean-Luc Godard

You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character. — Luc De Clapiers

Once we know the number one, we believe that we know the number two, because one plus one equals two. We forget that first we must know the meaning of plus. — Jean-Luc Godard

Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error. — Luc De Clapiers

More are taken in by hope than by cunning. — Luc De Clapiers

ALPHA-60: Your name is written "Ivan Johnson," but it is pronounced "Lemmy Caution," Secret Agent Zero Zero Three of the Outlands. You are a threat to the security of Alphaville.
CAUTION: I refuse to become what you call "normal."
...
ALPHA-60: You cannot escape. The door is locked.
CAUTION: Try to stop me, pal. — Jean-Luc Godard

I do not approve the maxim which desires a man to know a little of everything. Superficial knowledge, knowledge without principles, is almost always useless and sometimes harmful knowledge. — Luc De Clapiers

Movies are a world of Fragments. — Jean-Luc Godard

Indeed, theological discourse offers its strange jubilation only to the strict extent that it permits and, dangerously, demands of it wokman that he speak beyond his means, precisely because he does not speak of himself. Hence the danger of a speech that, in a sense, speaks against the one who lends himself to it. One must obtain forgiveness for every essay in theology. In all senses. — Jean-Luc Marion

The best things are the most common. — Luc De Clapiers

The earl looked down at him. "Will he die, Gavin?" "You..." The barest whisper. "...wish."

-Cam & Luc — Katharine Ashe

At the end of '69 I did a gig with Jean Luc Ponty here in L.A. He was an electric violinist. — George Duke

If you can't confuse them with the truth, bedazzle them with bullshit. — Jean-Luc Roy

Ignore him," Heather begged. "I do. Constantly." Jean-Luc studied the coach, then turned to Heather with a wary look. "Every man in this town wants you." She laughed. "Yea, right. The old guys from the nursing home go into cardiac arrest whenever I walk by." His gaze drifted over her. "I can believe that. — Kerrelyn Sparks

Like a four-sided porch I'm open to all winds. — Luc Sante

Magnanimity will not consider the prudence of its motives. — Luc De Clapiers

You can purchase the mind of Pascal for a crown. Pleasures even cheaper are sold to those who give themselves up to them. It is only luxuries and objects of caprice that are rare and difficult to obtain; unfortunately they are the only things that touch the curiosity and taste of ordinary men. — Luc De Clapiers

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected. — Luc De Clapiers

L.A. will never be a hockey town. I'm a huge hockey fan, and people out here do not appreciate hockey as much as they should. I've always been into it. I'm Canadian; that's my sport for sure. — Jean-Luc Bilodeau

Not all vampires are created equal, you know. — Melika Dannese Lux

Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection. — Jean-Luc Godard

Despair is the greatest of our errors. — Luc De Clapiers

To possess taste, one must have some soul. — Luc De Clapiers

It is sometimes easier to form a party than to attain by degrees the head of a party already formed. — Luc De Clapiers

Au contraire, he's the person you wanted to be. One who was less arrogant, and undisciplined as a youth. One who was less like me. The Jean-Luc Picard you wanted to be, the one who did not fight the Nausicaan, had quite a different career from the one you remember. That Picard never had a brush with death, never came face to face with his own mortality, never realised how fragile life is or how important each moment must be. So his life never came into focus. He drifted for much of his career, with no plan or agenda, going from one assignment to the next, never seizing the opportunities that presented themselves. He never lead the away team on Milika Three to save the ambassador, or take charge of the Stargazer's Bridge when its Captain was killed. And no one ever offered him a command. He learned to play it safe. And he never, ever got noticed by anyone. — Q

Film-makers in Belgium are seen as arts and crafts makers. It is a small country. There is not really a film industry there at all. — Luc Dardenne

We can be exposed to HIV many times without being chronically infected. Our immune system will get rid of the virus within a few weeks, if you have a good immune system. — Luc Montagnier

I want to show the event at the very moment it takes place ... My body must be anchored to the ground and seek the best point of view, without any visual taboos. But then, at the heart of the event, my effort is to disappear, I introduce a distance that borders on indifference. — Luc Delahaye

To achieve great things, we must live as though we were never going to die. — Luc De Clapiers De Vauvenargues

Sometimes a lengthened period of prosperity melts away in a moment; just as the heat of summer flies before a day of tempest. — Luc De Clapiers

We are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the lukewarm approval of men of intelligence. — Luc De Clapiers

They don't actually see the real world, where 95% of the people with HIV are not treated and are dying. And even though we have some blue sky now in our country, the sky could become cloudy again very soon. — Luc Montagnier

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time. — Luc De Clapiers

New York, which is founded on forward motion and thus loath to acknowledge its dead, merely causes them to walk, endlessly unsatisfied and unburied, to invade the precincts of supposed progress, to lay chill hands on the heedless present, which does not know how to identify the forces that tug at its rationality. — Luc Sante

Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice. — Luc De Clapiers