Jean Drapeau Quotes

#1. My all-time favourite political promise - more a boast than a promise, really - came from former Montreal mayor Jean Drapeau, who said in the lead-up to the 1976 Olympics, 'The Olympics can no more lose money than a man can have a baby.'

Martin O'Malley

#2. The real amateur of wine can only enjoy it along with friends, sharing with them the art of conversation and the art of drinking. Wine is indeed essentially a sign of civilization, a factor of sociability, friendship.

Jean Drapeau

#3. Breathing: the miracle cure everyone's been looking for." -Lane-

Robyn Schneider

#4. Gripping her hips in his hands, he thrust into her, and her eyes closed, her head tilting to the side as he pumped in and out of her, wondering how a quickie in the back of a limo could be the hottest sex he'd had in a long time. It's her. It's always been her.

Codi Gary

#5. This is when family and friends must stand tall and strong - when mettle is tested, refined and purified. We'll survive. We must. And we'll watch the enemy burn in the fire.

Jason Price

#6. Julianne Moore and Michael Keaton began in 1980s soap operas and 1970s sitcoms, respectively, such ancient history by show business standards that you need carbon dating to measure their careers.

Steve Erickson

#7. I have it on good authority-from the roads department chief, Mr. Arpin-that it will not snow after the fifteenth of March.

Jean Drapeau

#8. The difficulty of getting a movie made through a major studio is so extreme that when a movie comes out, everyone should give it four stars because it was accomplished.

John Mulaney

#9. Men and women who seek to become gods must first lose their humanity.

Dean Koontz

#10. When you kiss, you can close your eyes. You can kiss away the thoughts. You can kiss away the pain, the doubt, the shame. When you close your eyes and kiss, you protect yourself from the vulnerability.

Colleen Hoover

#11. When I arrived at Harvard, I wanted to design a course in political theory that would have interested me, back when I was started out, in a way that the standard things didn't.

Michael Sandel

#12. My life and my whole eternity belongs to God. All this stuff is temporary. Money, fame, successtemporary. Even life is temporary. Jesusthat's eternal.

Willie Robertson

#13. But I'm trying not to be cynical - I don't want to be one of those people who has a cool opportunity and blows it. It's really amazing what's happening to me.

Shannyn Sossamon

#14. Let Toronto become Milan. Montreal will always be Rome.

Jean Drapeau

#15. What the masses want are monuments.

Jean Drapeau

#16. My painting is visible images that conceal nothing ... they evoke mystery. Mystery means nothing. It is unknowable.

Rene Magritte

#17. The world is so full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking. So the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage. He has little competition.

Dale Carnegie

#18. I am in no mood for boorish men. Or their warmongering. "Weapons

Renee Ahdieh