Francoise Giroud Quotes

#1. Democracy and tyranny are not distant relatives. They're bedfellows."

-General John James
Commandant, USMC
December 11th, 2032

L. Douglas Hogan

#2. Reality is for people that lack imagination.

Hayao Miyazaki

#3. Nothing is more difficult than competing with a myth

Francoise Giroud

#4. Advisors are generally brilliant theoreticians but wretched practitioners.

Francoise Giroud

#5. I'm always wearing Spanx, eating ice cream and feeling a bit lonely.

Sheridan Smith

#6. Because I can't handle the nightmares. Not without you.

Suzanne Collins

#7. A vital component of charity and grace is the ability not to draw attention to one's possession of them. Penelope pursed her lips as she pushed Eloise

Julia Quinn

#8. Every bit of you is worthy of your loving.

Pat Rodegast

#9. Perhaps the future belongs to magic, and it's we women who control magic.

J.G. Ballard

#10. The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism is repulsive to my mind by the menace of fanaticism and intolerance it contains.

Joseph Conrad

#11. Desire can be as fragile as it is sudden.

Francoise Giroud

#12. My favorite football team is the Bears because my favorite player is on there, Devin Hester. I love the whole team, though. But that's just my favorite player.

Jacob Latimore

#13. You see, wisdom does not come with grey hairs.

Nikolai Gogol

#14. Being a professional ... is making fewer mistakes than others, as few as possible.

Francoise Giroud

#15. I remember there were days when - and this is kind of gross - I would sleep in my uniform to save time in the morning and then get up and go to school ... it didn't matter because I didn't have to impress anyone, and I didn't have to look cute in class.

Stacey Farber

#16. We should attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together in a higher unity.

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

#17. Off-the-rack solutions, like bargain basement dresses, never fit anymore.

Francoise Giroud

#18. TechCrunch is the publication of record, but they're so bad and uninformed. It's insult after insult. When I play poker with other VC's, we all laugh at TechCrunch.

Jason Calacanis

#19. Generally, common sense is rare in the (higher) rank.

Juvenal

#20. Equal rights for the sexes will be achieved only when mediocre women occupy high positions.

Francoise Giroud

#21. We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.

Nelson Mandela