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De - Pt| Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) | by Linux fortune |
| A rose is a rose is a rose. Just ask Jean Marsh, known to millions of PBS viewers in the '70s as Rose, the maid on the LWT export "Upstairs, Downstairs." Though Marsh has since gone on to other projects, ... it's with Rose she's forever identified. So much so that she even likes to joke about having one named after her, a distinction not without its drawbacks. "I was very flattered when I heard about it, but when I looked up the official description, it said, `Jean Marsh: pale peach, not very good in beds; better up against a wall.' I want to tell you that's not true. I'm very good in beds as well." | |
| FORTUNE DISCUSSES THE OBSCURE FILMS: #9 THE PARKING PROBLEM IN PARIS: Jean-Luc Godard, 1971, 7 hours 18 min. Godard's meditation on the topic has been described as everything from "timeless" to "endless." (Remade by Gene Wilder as NO PLACE TO PARK.) | |
| Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim. I don't enjoy the sky or sea as much as I used to because of this Levi character. If Jesus Christ came back today, He and I would get into our brown corduroys and go to the nearest jean store and overturn the racks of blue denim. Then we'd get crucified in the morning. -- Ian Anderson, of Jethro Tull | |
| Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images. -- Jean Cocteau | |
| So we follow our wandering paths, and the very darkness acts as our guide and our doubts serve to reassure us. - Jean-Pierre de Caussade, eighteenth-century Jesuit priest | |
| "Ada is the work of an architect, not a computer scientist." - Jean Icbiah, inventor of Ada, weenie | |
| A political man can have as his aim the realization of freedom, but he has no means to realize it other than through violence. -- Jean Paul Sartre | |
| Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images. -- Jean Cocteau | |
| Three o'clock in the afternoon is always just a little too late or a little too early for anything you want to do. -- Jean-Paul Sartre | |
| I drink to make other people interesting. -- George Jean Nathan | |
| The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters. -- Jean-Paul Kauffmann | |
| Near the Studio Jean Cocteau On the Rue des Ecoles lived an old man with a blind dog Every evening I would see him guiding the dog along the sidewalk, keeping a firm grip on the leash so that the dog wouldn't run into a passerby Sometimes the dog would stop and look up at the sky Once the old man noticed me watching the dog and he said, "Oh, yes, this one knows when the moon is out, he can feel it on his face" -- Barry Gifford | |
| EARL GREY PROFILES NAME: Jean-Luc Perriwinkle Picard OCCUPATION: Starship Big Cheese AGE: 94 BIRTHPLACE: Paris, Terra Sector EYES: Grey SKIN: Tanned HAIR: Not much LAST MAGAZINE READ: Lobes 'n' Probes, the Ferengi-Betazoid Sex Quarterly TEA: Earl Grey. Hot. EARL GREY NEVER VARIES. | |
| After all, it is only the mediocre who are always at their best. -- Jean Giraudoux | |
| Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far. -- Jean Cocteau | |
| The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just terrible. -- Jean Kerr | |
| We seldom repent talking too little, but very often talking too much. -- Jean de la Bruyere | |
| There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets truth. -- Jean Giraudoux, "Tiger at the Gates" | |
| Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God. -- Jean Anouilh | |
| Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. -- Jean-Paul Sartre | |
| Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know that he is. -- Jean Anouilh, "The Lark" | |
| The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made. -- Jean Giraudoux | |
| I don't want people to love me. It makes for obligations. -- Jean Anouilh | |
| Oh, love is real enough, you will find it some day, but it has one arch-enemy -- and that is life. -- Jean Anouilh, "Ardele" | |
| The onset and the waning of love make themselves felt in the uneasiness experienced at being alone together. -- Jean de la Bruyere | |
