Pompidou Centre Quotes

#1. It's a pragmatist's business, comedy. Start off with good intentions and references to the Pompidou Centre and you end up with boiled sweets and a pantomime cow.

Mel Smith

#2. The Cubist paintings in the Centre Pompidou in Paris were strange but amazing. The big fat magical cat said they made her eyes hurt.

Jim Shanahan

#3. The marketing department is really an important part of getting an animated film to work. If the people running it are used to selling live action films and the hard rock music and the sex and all those things ... Anything outside that, they just don't know what to do with it.

Don Bluth

#4. What is the use of being a little boy if you are growing up to be a man.

Gertrude Stein

#5. What about the pact they made with our pack? (Pandora)
It's dissolved. If they pull any more of your kin out of their time period, I'm going to send them a special welcoming committee. (Dante)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#6. -That ain't right, Miss Maudie. You're the best lady I know.-
Miss Maudie grinned. thank you ma'am. Thing is, foot-washers think women are a sin by definition. They take the bible literally, you know.

Harper Lee

#7. I have stated, that in the thirteen species of ground-finches, a nearly perfect gradation may be traced, from a beak extraordinarily thick, to one so fine, that it may be compared to that of a warbler.

Charles Darwin

#8. Any sentient entity who has lived, has changed.

Peter F. Hamilton

#9. Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers's Centre Georges Pompidou of 1971-1977 - the true prototype of the modern museum as popular architectural spectacle - wound up costing so much more than planned that the French government solved the shortfall by cutting support for several regional museums.

Martin Filler

#10. Productivity is grounded in the PC. Where does the computing power come from? How would you run 'USA Today' without PCs? Run a hospital without PCs? People don't want products, they want solutions.

Michael Dell

#11. It came to be believed that society could be understood using the same methods that are used to understand machines, and from there it was a small step to think that society is in fact a kind of machine.

John N. Gray

#12. If we bring together the right people, communities can flourish and wildlife can survive alongside them.

Jochen Zeitz

#13. As a city, it is always compelling. But every day in Mexico City, I give thanks that I am alive.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#14. There are two obstacles to enlightenment: 1. Thinking you know. 2 Thinking you don't know.

Gautama Buddha

#15. Traditions are like rules, they are meant to be broken.

A.E. Croft