Francis Ponge Quotes

#1. I never experienced getting nervous on stage. I think I was most comfortable there.

Misty Copeland

#2. Can't you do just a little bit more?
pleading with Nazarenes in the 1930's Great Depression to support their missionaries)

J.G. Morrison

#3. It's funny, people were asking me how I'd feel when it all ends, on the first movie, and I don't think I've ever felt more completely bewildered, knowing that I only have a month of Twilight stuff left to do.

Robert Pattinson

#4. For at the heart of the uniform, reasoning is shaky and elusive: a mind in search of ideas should first stock up on appearances.

Francis Ponge

#5. Another way of approaching the thing is to consider it unnamed, unnameable.

Francis Ponge

#6. Failure is necessary to succeed and will become your biggest blessing.

Lynn Bardowski

#7. hot-water tanks, lashed to one another with straps of steel like comrades in a doomed adventure.

Michael Chabon

#8. History - that little sewer where man loves to wallow.

Francis Ponge

#9. Capcom, or capsule communicator.

Chris Hadfield

#10. Women have every right; they just have to excercise them.

Victoria Woodhull

#11. My writing method is to sit in a very small hut absolutely alone. I write in total solitude. And I write on paper, on hand, and then it gets typed. Normal for me.

Sally Potter

#12. Many are really virtuous who cannot explain what virtue is ... But the powers themselves in reality perform their several operations with sufficient constancy and uniformity in persons of good health whatever their opinions be about them ...

Francis Hutcheson

#13. I believe that leadership principles are timeless and apply across all spectrum of life.

Thomas Narofsky

#14. Being able to work with Ridley Scott on this film is like being able to play on the Olympic team for actors.

Idris Elba

#15. You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is!

Michael Tilson Thomas

#16. When it has finished saying it, it no longer is. The longer it is in saying it, the more it can say it at length, the more slowly it melts, the better quality it is.

Francis Ponge