Top 100 Claude's Quotes
#1. This had been a bad section of town before the Circus moved in and brought in money, which attracted other businesses. The area had been gentrified not because of some government interference, but by good old-fashioned capitalism, which was one of Jean-Claude's favorite things.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#2. It wasn't just my beast's hunger, but Jean-Claude's blood thirst and Richard's craving for flesh. It was all that and the ardeur running through all of it, so that one hunger fed into the next in an endless chain, a snake eating it's own tail, an Ouroboros of desires.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#3. Anita can speak for herself," Richard said.
Jean-Claude's attention flicked back to me. "That is certainly true. But I came to see how the two of you enjoyed the play."
"And pigs fly," I said.
"You don't believe me?"
"Not hardly," I said.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#4. Now I must listen again to Claude's set piece on menu terms, as if he's the first ever to spot these unimportant absurdities. He lingers on "pan-fried." What is pan but a deceitful benediction on the vulgar and unhealthy fried?
Ian McEwan
#5. As far as I could tell, Claude's benefit to the world was strictly as a decoration.
-Sookie
Charlaine Harris
#6. There's one thing which I hate about color films ... people who use up a lot of their despairing producer's money by working in the laboratory to bring out the dominant hues, or to make color films where there isn't any color.
Claude Chabrol
#7. The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.
Claude Levi-Strauss
#8. Late season fruits.
The blood orange has its admirer, who suck it smugly. Cooks stalk it; they'd like to put it in some tartare sauce. However, some, like me, turn their noses up. In silence they mould bits of bread into balls, delighting in their work, then chuck them in God's face.
Claude Cahun
#9. I sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It's true that fretting never did any good.
Claude Monet
#10. Claude Hopkins.. maintained that nobody with a college education could write an advertisement addressed to the mass millions. That's absolute poppycock.
David Ogilvy
#11. All the essentials of humanity's artistic treasures can be found in New York.
Claude Levi-Strauss
#12. You can consider this carved in stone: I rule out becoming Herman Van Rompuy's successor.
Jean-Claude Juncker
#13. It's important to clarify that a library is not necessarily made up of books that we've read, or even that we will eventually read. They should be books that we can read. Or that we may read. Even if we never do.
Jean-Claude Carriere
#14. A man may have the best of wealth, cars and fame. But there is nothing more precious in life that he will get than a woman's heart.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
#15. I would say the most help I got was from my dad. My dad is a civil engineer in Switzerland; he's 90 years old now, so he's no longer active as a civil engineer, but still a very active person.
Claude Nicollier
#16. Lots of people will protest that it's quite unreal and that I'm out of my mind, but that's just too bad
Claude Monet
#17. The effect of sincerity is to give one's work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.
Claude Monet
#18. According to statistics, one person out of five is disturbed. If there are four people around you who seem normal, that's not good.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
#19. There is today a frightful disappearance of living species, be they plants or animals. And it's clear that the density of human beings has become so great, if I can say so, that they have begun to poison themselves. And the world in which I am finishing my existence is no longer a world that I like.
Claude Levi-Strauss
#20. Claude Rains was what we call an actor's actor. He was very involved with himself and his performance.
Gloria Stuart
#22. ...I understand where you're coming from. I know it isn't just a question of revenge. It's the feeling there are some things you can't let pass. If you did, you wouldn't be able to look at yourself in the mirror afterwards.
Jean-Claude Izzo
#23. Everyday I discover more and more beautiful things. It's enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.
Claude Monet
#24. It's often wrong to write for specific actors because one ends up using what is least interesting about them, their mannerisms and habits. I prefer not to write for specific people.
Claude Chabrol
#26. I love karate, it's like a bible to me. But deep inside I'm so I mean, I'm so sensitive.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
#27. You should be careful with opening doors to secrets, says Claude. Sometimes secrets are secrets because that's the best way.
Claire King
#28. Air is beautiful, yet you cannot see it. It's soft, yet you cannot touch it. Air is a little like my brain.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
#29. I have forgotten much, but still remember The poinsiana's red, blood-red in warm December.
Claude McKay
#30. To have gone to all this trouble to get to this is just too stupid! Outside there's brilliant sunshine but I don't feel up to looking at it ...
Claude Monet
#31. It is always said that Europe is a project of the elite. That's incorrect.
Jean-Claude Juncker
#32. In 1964, Jeanne-Claude and I became illegal aliens. That's when we moved here from Paris. And for three years, we were illegal aliens living in an illegal building. At that time, some artists started to move to SoHo, and they put A.I.R. - artists-in-residence - up on their windows.
Christo
#33. Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It's wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.
Claude Monet
#34. Claude Jade is a brave nice young lady. But I don't give any guarantee what she will do on a taxi's back seat.
Alfred Hitchcock
#35. Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of blue and pink: it's enchanting, it's delicious.
Claude Monet
#36. In an action film you act in the action. If it's a dramatic film you act in the drama.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
#37. All I know is politics. Really, politics takes up most of my time; it's nonstop.
Jean-Claude Duvalier
#38. I don't have a bad relationship. I'm 48 years old. I think life is too short for that. To me, life is ... you open the shutters, you see the dogs outside, you look left, you look right, in, what, a second and a half? And that's a life.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
#39. Ninety per cent of the theory of Impressionist painting is in ... Ruskin's Elements.
Claude Monet
#40. Thanks to my work everything's going well; it's a great consolation.
Claude Monet
#41. I'm going to get down to a still life on a size 50 canvas of rayfish and dogfish with old fishermen's baskets. Then I'm going to turn out a few pictures to send wherever possible, given that now, first and foremost - unfortunately - I have to earn some money.
Claude Monet
#42. People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.
Claude Monet
#43. Lack is the last great gold rush, Claude. The world is poor and getting poorer. But we can turn that to our advantage. When someone's got nothing, does he care how much debt he gets into? When he's walled in and someone offers him a way out, does he stop to read the small print?
Paul Murray
#44. Listen to no one's advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole history of mankind ...
Claude Debussy
#45. It is only too easy to catch people's attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
Claude Monet
#47. That's just not right," Sam muttered. "Claude needs to keep his pants on.
Charlaine Harris
#48. The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all's said and done, a matter of habit.
Claude Monet
#49. It is going to be an experiment of how it works, and I see I have all reasons to believe that it will work fine. But it's a short time. And we also have pushed the envelope here a little beyond what has been done in the past.
Claude Nicollier
#50. I can pretty much say that because of Bruce Lee and Jean-Claude Van Damme, that's why I do what I do today.
Scott Adkins
#51. It's funny: half my films were flops, half did well. It would be terrible if I'd had only success.
Claude Lelouch
#53. There's a death sentence for your Robin of Locksley.
Claude Rains
#54. It's enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
Claude Monet
#55. I have always considered it to be a minor miracle that after the war, people in Europe's border regions were able to forget everything and, in accordance with the slogan "Never Again War," develop a program that still works today.
Jean-Claude Juncker
#56. One's better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one's own. In fact it's a terrible business and the task is a hard one.
Claude Monet
#57. And her delicacy offended. Who wants a delicate whore! Claude would even ask you to turn your face away when she squatted over the bidet. All wrong! A man, when he's burning up with passion, wants to see things; he wants to see everything, even how they make water.
Henry Miller
#58. It's time for me to do things I like so I will be happy, my wife will be happy, my friends will be happy. I just want to do something I'm proud of. It's time for me to change. I could sign with a company for 10 movies and I'm the king of video and so what?
Jean-Claude Van Damme
#59. I'm not complaining about doing 20-hour days. It's a joy to be able to work on yet another film.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
#60. You must start with desire, keeping in mind that with the magic of believing you can obtain what you picture in your mind's eye.
Claude M. Bristol
#61. To observe a profoundly stupid individual can be very enriching, and that's why we should never feel contempt for them.
Claude Chabrol
#62. But music, don't you know, is a dream from which the veils have been lifted. It's not even the expression of a feeling, it's the feeling itself.
Claude Debussy
#63. The product itself should be it's own best salesman. Not the product alone, but the product plus a mental impression, and atmosphere, which you place around it
Claude C. Hopkins
#64. If you want to kill someone, you'd better pull off a perfect crime. Our security lies in the fact that that's damnably hard to do.
Claude Lelouch
#65. The one just consider the average reader s only once a reader, probably. And when you fail to tell them in that ad is something he may never know
Claude C. Hopkins
#66. Perhaps it's true that I'm very hard on myself, but that's better than exhibiting mediocre work ... too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.
Claude Monet
#67. What can be said about a man who is interested in nothing but his painting? It's a pity if a man can only interest himself in one thing. But I can't do any thing else. I have only one interest.
Claude Monet
#68. A cookie has no soul, it's just a cookie. But before it was milk and eggs. And in eggs there's the potential for life.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
#69. It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.
Claude M. Bristol
#70. I said in my inaugural address that I am not the Council's secretary, nor am I the Parliament's lackey. That can sometimes lead to conflicts, which are defused through dialogue.
Jean-Claude Juncker
#71. Think of me getting up before 6, I'm at work by 7 and I continue until 6.30 in the evening, standing up all the time, nine canvases. It's murderous ...
Claude Monet
#72. Almost any questions can be answered,cheaply, quickly and finally, by a test campaign. And that's he way to answer them - not by arguments around a table
Claude C. Hopkins
#73. You have to strike hard from the beginning and create a depressurizing zone between the viewer's own life and the one onscreen. The creators of James Bond got it right: the attention-grabbing scene of each Bond movie is the very first one, before the opening credits.
Claude Lelouch
#74. You'll understand, I'm sure that I'm chasing the merest sliver of color. It's my own fault. I want to grasp the intangible. It's terrible how the light runs out. Color, any color, lasts a second, sometimes 3 or 4 minutes at most ...
Claude Monet
#75. For where does one run to when he's already in the promised land?
Claude Brown
#76. sight. So I was still attracted to Jean-Claude. I might even, in some dark corner, love him a little. It didn't matter. Loving the monsters always ends badly for the human. It's a rule. That
Laurell K. Hamilton
#77. Karate's a very boring sport, but when you know the technique you can go further and further.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
#78. I've done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don't want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that's enough.
Claude Monet
#79. Malachi Smith. Crispin Jones. Suzette Boudrot. Claude Le Breton." Matthew paused as Ransome searched the ledger's entries for the names. "You should have kept them in chronological order instead of alphabetical. That's how I remember them." Ransome
Deborah Harkness
#80. It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
Claude Monet
#81. I want the unobtainable. Other artists paint a bridge, a house, a boat, and that's the end. They are finished. I want to paint the air which surrounds the bridge, the house, the boat, the beauty of the air in which these objects are located, and that is nothing short of impossible.
Claude Monet
#82. When I was 24, I was full of life. I was that ham who wanted to be famous, a movie star, all that stuff. I think it's cool. But it was not what I was searching for, really. It was more a delusion.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
#83. My father was a steel worker and Martin's [Schulz] grandfather was a miner in Saarland. In these occupations, there is a particular awareness of solidarity. That creates links that aren't present in other relationships.
Jean-Claude Juncker
#84. She doesn't understand what she's asking, Jean-Claude said.
No, but she asks, and if we do not do it, we will always wonder. I would rather thy and fail than regret having never tried at all.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#85. The trouble with the opera is there's always to much singing.
Claude Debussy
#86. Sometimes, all it takes is one gesture, one word, to change the course of someone's life. Even if you know it won't last forever.
Jean-Claude Izzo
#87. It's the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one's done.
Claude Monet
#88. It's at moment of misfortune that we remember we're all exiles.
Jean-Claude Izzo
#89. He's a senior in high school Bernardo. Jean-Claude is his legal guardian and had to enroll him in school. He comes home with homework and shit and then he wants to cuddle and have sex. It weirds me the fuck out.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#90. I'm not a movie star. I'm a brand name. Van Damme is like Levi's. I go on vacation, and everywhere I go, people love me for my name, not for my movies.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
#91. Yesterday's shining heroes of Brexit have become the sorrowful heroes of today.
Jean-Claude Juncker
#92. I was shocked. A dying word, "shocked." Few people have been able to use it well since Claude Rains so famously said, "I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on here," as he pocketed his winnings in Casablanca. But it's the only word for excitement and alarm of this intensity.
David Denby
#93. What is it that's taken hold of me, for me to carry on like this in relentless pursuit of something beyond my powers?
Claude Monet
#94. We can't completely rely on the aberrations of history to explain today's European necessities. Future-related issues are no less pressing.
Jean-Claude Juncker
#95. I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact.
Claude Levi-Strauss
#96. Composers aren't daring enough. They're afraid of that sacred idol called 'common sense', which is the most dreadful thing I know - after all, it's no more than a religion founded to excuse the ubiquity of imbeciles!
Claude Debussy
#97. I think a benefit is that we try to put it up in a short time. From the decision to do this mission until we fly, it's six months and one week or so, so it's a very short time.
Claude Nicollier
#98. I've had my ups and downs. My fair share of bumpy roads and heavy winds. That's what made me what I am today.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
#99. It looks good when you see someone kicking at the age of 51 with no double. It's kinda cool for people to know that past 50 we can keep flexible.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
#100. I love challenges. If you don't have any and can do whatever you want. Then it's probably time to die.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
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