Bemelmans Quotes

#1. The following story if fiction.
What actually happened was worse.

Ahmet M. Rahmanovic

#2. It is important to note that a transitional phase has to be uncomfortable for you to move on to the next stage, lest procrastination stymies you.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#3. So many things I'm not, and so few things I am.

Michael Grant

#4. I think that too ended up affecting a lot of the different research questions that I later asked was really was about well to what extent ... How do we balance choice as possibility and choice as limitations?

Sheena Iyengar

#5. Love is there when one lives in the beauty and goodness of others.

Debasish Mridha

#6. America is a land of healthy appetites. It is not in the American character to live in order to eat. Rather, the reverse is true. Many try, but just as Americans don't make good gigolos, nether do they make good gourmets.

Ludwig Bemelmans

#7. I don't keep any copy of my books around ... they would embarass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly, and have done with them.

Ludwig Bemelmans

#8. I've always been really inspired by watching top athletes putting in peak performances.

Manu Bennett

#9. The true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly seeks: perfection.

Ludwig Bemelmans

#10. Today I was rejected...

...

I hate being rejected... SAYYYYYYYYYY MY FUCKING NAME "Bill".

Deyth Banger

#11. To be a gourmet you must start early, as you must begin riding early to be a good horseman. You must live in France, your father must have been a gourmet. Nothing in life must interest you but your stomach.

Ludwig Bemelmans

#12. The purpose of art is to console and amuse - myself, and, I hope, others.

Ludwig Bemelmans

#13. Such simple questions as How many feet are in a mile? or What's the number of square feet in an acre? produce the not-so-simple answers of 5,280 and 43,560.

John Bemelmans Marciano

#14. Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress.

Ludwig Bemelmans

#15. Prayer without action is no prayer at all. You have to do your work as if everything depends on you. Then leave the rest to God." Mother Teresa

Stephen J. Young

#16. We shall never see much change for the better in our churches in general till the prayer meeting occupies a higher place in the esteem of Christians.

Charles Spurgeon

#17. For gypsies do not like to stay -
They only come to go away.

Ludwig Bemelmans

#18. It's always wonderful when something altogether wrong ends right, without the help of either religion or the police.

Ludwig Bemelmans

#19. My heart desires the mountains, like the lungs desire oxygen.

Adele Gibbes

#20. Only one who has known how troubled life can be, has a real appreciation of it when it is good

Ludwig Bemelmans