Pagnol Marcel Quotes

#1. You'd better start rocking that boat right now or else your live is going to pass you by before you even start living it.

Nicole Williams

#2. Look at the way I look. Guys like me aren't on TV too often. Not on news channels.

George Stroumboulopoulos

#3. The most difficult secret for a man to keep is his own opinion of himself.

Marcel Pagnol

#4. Honor is like a match, you can only use it once.

Marcel Pagnol

#5. Truman is now seen as a near-great president because he put in place the containment doctrine boosted by the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan and NATO, which historians now see as having been at the center of American success in the cold war.

Robert Dallek

#6. Parents find many different ways to work their way through the assertiveness of their two-year-olds, but seeing that assertiveness as positive energy being directed toward growth as a competent individual may open up some new possibilities.

Fred Rogers

#7. The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.

Marcel Pagnol

#8. It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.

Salman Rushdie

#9. In short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of life, if we simply live a neutral existence.

Armstrong Williams

#10. A handy short definition of almost all science fiction might read: realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge of the real world, past and present, and on a thorough understanding of the nature and significance of the scientific method.

Robert A. Heinlein

#11. I have this working theory that the main cause of traffic after a car accident is rarely the accident itself. I think people just slow down to get a closer look at the wreckage.

Kris Kidd

#12. They shared an unshakeable belief in beauty, in overflow, in everythingness, the bursting, indelible beauty in a world where there is so much suffering and wounding and pain.

Elizabeth Alexander

#13. A Dumont actor was considered to be too stilted - the way we Dumont actors used to speak.

Leon Askin

#14. Such is the life of a man. Moments of joy, obliterated by unforgettable sorrow.

Marcel Pagnol

#15. One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.

Marcel Pagnol

#16. A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper.

Marcel Pagnol

#17. It's better to choose the culprits than to seek them out.

Marcel Pagnol

#18. I think it's great to be talked about as a woman film-maker. It's part of who I am; it affects me daily. I want it to be part of the conversation. I'm for any scheme or initiative that gives women a way in.

Sarah Gavron