Pieds Noir Quotes & Sayings

Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter? — Thomas Hardy

I always wanted 'Sideways' to be like a great 1960s Italian film. — Alexander Payne

Edwards says elsewhere: "I am bold to say that the work of God in the conversion of one soul, considered together with the source foundation, and purchase of it, and also the benefit, end, and eternal issue of it, is a more glorious work of God than the creation of the whole material universe. — William James

The theory of the method of knowing which is advanced in these pages may be termed pragmatic ... Only that which has been organized into our disposition so as to enable us to adapt the environment to our needs and adapt our aims and desires to the situation in which we live is really knowledge. — John Dewey

She was pretty and, even more, she was smart, and she had a divine figure according to all accounts. He fell in love with her, as a man always falls in love with any attractive woman whom he sees a lot of. — Guy De Maupassant

This earth will be looked back on like a lowly home, and this life of ours be remembered like a short apprenticeship to duty. — William Mountford

I guess that I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, largely because of 'Frankenstein' being such a heavy song - you know, it was really hard rock, almost a precursor of heavy metal and just the image of the synthesizer. I happened to be the first guy to get the idea of putting a strap on the keyboard. — Edgar Winter

If you shoot with a billion cameras, then there's no perspective. You want to use one shot at a time, so it's better to discover what that is before you shoot, rather than trying to make something in the cutting room, and then it just becomes generic. — Roger Deakins

If we looked down at the world from space, we would not see any demarcations of national boundaries. We would simply see one small planet, just one. — Dalai Lama