Ecole's Quotes

#1. Yes, a bunch of carrots, observed directly, painted simply in the personal way one sees it, worth more than the Ecole's everlasting slices of buttered bread, that tobacco-juice painting, slavishly done by the book? The day is coming when a single original carrot will give birth to a revolution.

Paul Cezanne

#2. We're invisible. I've never been here with someone else. It's different being invisible with someone.

John Green

#3. There were nobles, who made war against each other; there was the king, who

Alexandre Dumas

#4. I have a great time touring.

LeAnn Rimes

#5. Look! The emperor has no clothes!

Some Kid

#6. These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try.

Jacques Derrida

#7. You wouldn't have to do any business with Wolfsheim." Evidently he thought that I was shying away from the "gonnegtion" mentioned at lunch, but I assured him he was wrong.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#8. Lord thy will be done in my life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. In the past the French came to Germany less with the desire to understand it than with a zealous desire to interpret, to analyze it dispassionately something for which their training at the Ecole Normale Superieure or the Ecole des Hautes Etudes and the French language superbly equipped them to do.

Walter Abish

#10. Tell me, Rose. Who did this? On his knees a mere two feet from her, he had to restrain himself again from pulling her into his arms.

Melanie Dickerson

#11. You can't chemical your way out of soil infertility

Joel Salatin

#12. I think that we come to a greater understanding of the world we live in and ourselves through reading.

Dwight Yoakam

#13. The famous statue of Christ the Redeemer that overlooks Rio de Janeiro is only 130 feet tall. McGuinty's eco-idols [Wind Turbines] will be three times that height, but will serve the same imposing purpose.

Ezra Levant

#14. Fascinated by history during my secondary education, then by physics and mechanics at the Ecole Polytechnique, I finally entered the national administration of mines in 1936.

Maurice Allais

#15. Western man is schizophrenic.

J.B. Priestley

#16. My initial plan was to spend a year in France, go to some kind of school and learn a bit of French. I went a year in an American college in the outskirts of Strasbourg, but got a glimpse of a real art school, L'Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, and enrolled the following year.

John Howe