Top 31 Adolphe Quotes
#1. You can think deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper into a subject, depending on what you are writing about.
Douglas McGrath
#2. What I wanted to say is that abuse has no bias. It's not gender specific; it's just never okay.
Jennifer Lopez
#3. The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age.
Scott Bakula
#4. The more progress physical sciences make, the more they tend to enter the domain of mathematics, which is a kind of centre to which they all converge. We may even judge the degree of perfection to which a science has arrived by the facility with which it may be submitted to calculation.
Adolphe Quetelet
#5. Whether statistics be an art or a science ... or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social and political dynamics, and affords the only secure ground on which the truth or falsehood of the theories and hypotheses of that complicated science can be brought to the test.
Adolphe Quetelet
#6. There are many reasons I feel at home in the U.K., but if I were asked to pinpoint the moment I knew I'd arrived, it might well be when I realised the British shared my love of fritters.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#7. The tightly focused battle was an orgy of slaughter. Limbs, heads, and parts of bodies from men and women alike littered the ground.
Terry Goodkind
#9. It is a great mistake on the part of elderly ladies, male and female, to tell a child that he is seeing his happiest days. Do not you believe a word of it, my little friend.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
#10. My success has been as full of luck as a crapshooter's dream.
Adolphe Menjou
#11. One has to seek Beauty and Truth, Sir! As I always say to my pupils, you have to work to the finish. There's only one kind of painting. It is the painting that presents the eye with perfection, the kind of beautiful and impeccable enamel you find in Veronese and Titian.
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
#12. Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.
Adolphe Monod
#13. In politics it is necessary to take nothing tragically and everything seriously.
Louis Adolphe Thiers
#14. If you don't trust either the captain or the ship, there remains only one thing for safety: Trusting the storm!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#16. One shouldn't believe in all those so-called innovations. There is only one nature and only one way to see it. Nowadays, they want to succeed too fast, this is how they go about inventing new aesthetics, pointillism, pipisme! All this is just to make noise.
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
#17. O rose! the sweetest blossom,
Of spring the fairest flower,
O rose! the joy of heaven.
The god of love, with roses
His yellow locks adorning,
Dances with the hours and graces.
James Gates Percival
#18. If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.
Frederick The Great
#19. They pried into the most secret recesses, ransacked every depository of papers, broke open every lock, and enjoyed the twofold gratification of curiosity and destruction.
Adolphe Thiers
#20. Aren't grown up people just little children at heart?
Adolphe Menjou
#21. That was my first clue that love can warp a hierarchy; the whole pyramid got flipped on its head. My pet, because she was mine, was at the top of the chain. I cared for the squirmy swamp rats in the most perfunctory way, with none of the love I felt for my red Seth.
Karen Russell
#23. I'm a Red-baiter; I'm a witch-hunter if the witches are Communists.
Adolphe Menjou
#24. She clung to him, song after song, staring into his eyes they way she used to stare into mine.
Kiera Cass
#25. Write for impact first, money second. If you do it the other way around, you'll end up with less of either.
Don Roff
#26. Man has a primary property right to his person and his labor.
Adolphe Thiers
#27. A maxim is a conclusion upon observation of matters of fact, and is merely speculative; a "principle" carries knowledge within itself, and is prospective.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#28. For those who govern, the first thing required is indifference to newspapers.
Adolphe Thiers
#29. It was my mustache that landed jobs for me. In those silent-film days it was the mark of a villain. When I realized they had me pegged as a foreign nobleman type I began to live the part, too. I bought a pair of white spats, an ascot tie and a walking stick.
Adolphe Menjou
#30. For me a work of art must be an elevated interpretation of nature. The search for the ideal has been the purpose of my life. In landscape or seascape, I love above all the poetic motif.
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
