Boris Vian Best Quotes

#1. It's ironic to watch a dress on a mannequin or a model on a catwalk who's not anything like the person that's going to buy it.

Nigel Barker

#2. One ends up relying on pure musical inspiration, and failing that, the music won't lead to anything good, or it will alienate all but the most die-hard fans.

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#3. Rien n'est plus parfait, plus acheve qu'un cadavre. Nothing is more perfect, more complete than a corpse.

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#4. There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly.

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#5. Faith can move mountains but let them happily fall down on the heads of other people. What's the point in moving mountains when it's so simple to climb over them?

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#6. If you get the chance, teach it to any female who will take the time to listen.

Sarah J. Maas

#7. I think poetry is the only domain where a writer you like can truly be said to influence you, because you read and reread a poem so many times that it simply drills itself into your head.

Michel Houellebecq

#8. I'm not interested in the happiness of all men, but only in the happiness of each.

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#9. I played the trumpet a bit like a porker, I think.

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#10. Nobody knew me at Buckton. Clem had chosen the town because of that; and besides, even if I had wimp out, there was not enough gas to help me going further north. - I spit on your graves ,

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#11. People don't change. Things do.

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#12. Les masses ont tort et les individus toujours raison. The masses are wrong; individuals are always right.

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#13. We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind's collective GDP.

Henry Rollins

#14. Of course, it's fun to play with Blacks.

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#15. Of course, your voice always sounds better in the shower for some reason, maybe it's just the octaves or, I don't know, the water, I have no idea.

David Boreanaz

#16. The three great moments of my life had to be the concerts of Ellington in 1938, Dizzy in '48, and Ella in '52.

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#17. Procrastination is a prelude in a minor key.

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#18. The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced with black elements.

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#19. It's simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home. And what is wonderful about movies is that once they're done, they belong to the people. Once you make it, it's what they see. That's where my head is at.

Denzel Washington

#20. Les femmes et les hommes ne vivent pas sur le me me plan. Women and men do not live according to the same design.

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#21. Humor is the politeness of despair.

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#22. In the Middle Ages, cathedrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie in the Pacific without a fighter plane shot down in flames.

Umberto Eco