Courcelles Quotes

#1. Life is precious," says Prentice. "Whatever form it takes, however long it lasts. You should do something only you can do." "Chase after screaming crowds while rotting flamboyantly?

T.W. Brown

#2. We like to know the weakness of eminent persons; it consoles us for our inferiority.

Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles

#3. Temperance adds zest to pleasure.

Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles

#4. Politeness costs little and yields much.

Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles

#5. The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them, and they make us despair in losing them.

Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles

#6. There aren't many women now I'd like to see as President - but there are fewer men.

Clare Boothe Luce

#7. Would you be esteemed? live with persons that are estimable.

Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles

#8. May the Lord give you your heart desires.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. Perfect friendship puts us under the necessity of being virtuous. As it can only be preserved among estimable persons, it forces us to resemble them. You find in friendship the surety of good counsel, the emulation of good example, sympathy in our griefs, succor in our distress.

Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles

#10. We live with our defects as with the odors we carry about us: we do not perceive them, but they incommode those who approach us.

Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles

#11. I was thinking between 3 and 4 this morning, of my 55 years. I lay awake so calm, so content, as if I'd stepped off the whirling world into a deep blue quiet space and there open eyed existed, beyond harm; armed against all that can happen.

Virginia Woolf

#12. More than sixty years ago, mathematical logicians, by defining precisely the concept of an algorithm, gave content to the ancient human idea of an effective calculation. Their definitions led to the creation of the digital computer, an interesting example of thought bending matter to its ends.

David Berlinski

#13. The first rule for speaking well is to think well.

Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles

#14. One of the duties of old-age, is the management of time. The less that remains to us, the more valuable we ought to consider it.

Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles

#15. Gideon and Gabriel," said Tessa. "They're really quite good-looking, not hideous at all.

Cassandra Clare

#16. We can easily forgive want of means; but littleness, with means, is disgusting.

Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles

#17. Simplicity is oftenest an adroit pretence.

Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles

#18. The most necessary disposition to relish pleasures is to know how to be without them.

Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles

#19. I've done a fair amount of that stuff ... when we did Lord of the Rings the transformation sequence from Smeagol to Gollum was a 19-hour make-up job. You have to have a kind of zen button that you press and allow the mind to be focused in a certain way.

Andy Serkis