Pompidou Quotes

#1. Gen. de Gaulle is only concerned about history, and no jury can dictate the judgment of history. Georges Pompidou

Mark Kurlansky

#2. 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

#3. You could draw certain parallels between the structure of the Pompidou and the structure of the rocket-launching facilities at Cape Canaveral. They might not have been thinking about it, but I think there is some kind of unconscious affinity there.

Kenneth Frampton

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. Subpersonalities can exist at different levels or memes, however, so that one can indeed have a purple subpersonality, a blue subpersonality, and so on. These often are context-triggered, so that one can have quite different types of moral responses, affects, needs, etc., in different situations.

Ken Wilber

#7. My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.

Lasse Hallstrom

#8. There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.

Georges Pompidou

#9. The most dangerous thing about student riots is that adults take them seriously.

Georges Pompidou

#10. Almost nothing is as complex as the human personality, and no simple formula will ever cover every situation or every relationship.

Billy Graham

#11. Jesus Christ is the outstanding personality of our time. Every act and word of Jesus has value for us. He became the light of the world. Why shouldn't I, a Jew, be proud of that?

Sholem Asch

#12. Drug company payments to doctors are a small part of a much larger strategy by Big Pharma to clean our pockets.

Robert Reich

#13. When I first arrived at the Matignon, my desire was to reconcile Parliament and De Gaulle. I had forgotten only two things. Parliament and De Gaulle.

Georges Pompidou

#14. There are three way of courting ruin
women, gambling, and calling in technicians.

Georges Pompidou

#15. It is one thing to make a choice and it is another thing to never have the chance.

Ally Condie

#16. He imitated me so well that I couldn't stand myself any longer.

Georges Pompidou

#17. In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit, a capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship, we are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.

Alan Hirsch

#18. The rest of the world cannot be expected to regulate its life by a clock which is always slow.

Georges Pompidou

#19. Some say we can't choose who we fall in love with; love chooses us. Sometimes people fall for the complete antithesis of everything they believe they're looking for.

Alexandra Adornetto

#20. Love sometimes elevates, creates new qualities, suspends the working of evil inclinations; but only for a day. Love, then, is an Oriental despot, whose glance lifts a slave from the dust, and then consigns him to it again.

Sophie Swetchine

#21. Sorry to interrupt myself, but it's the only way I stop talking.

Rush Limbaugh

#22. What IS it about this town? I never thought I'd long for the good old days of Nazi robots and dragons.

C.T. Phipps

#23. There are three ways to spoil a public man: women, gambling, and listening to experts. The first is the pleasantest, the second is the fastest, but the third is the most certain.

Georges Pompidou

#24. Smartass Disciple: Master, how could I know that you've told me the whole truth?
Master of Stupidity: Someday. [Never on earth. Otherwise I'd lose you and my job]

Toba Beta

#25. Can you know excellence if you've never seen it? Can you know good if you have seen only bad?

E.L. Konigsburg

#26. My fate is to be President of the Republic - or leader of the opposition.

Georges Pompidou

#27. A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.

Georges Pompidou

#28. It's more than a feeling," I whispered to the darkness of my room, "and ... even more than a choice. It is a conviction. And a mystery. A beautiful, beautiful mystery.

Gina Marinello-Sweeney

#29. Your city is remarkable not only for its beauty. It is also, of all the cities in the United States, the one whose name, the world over, conjures up the most visions and more than any other, incites one to dream.

Georges Pompidou

#30. Well, Connor doesn't believe in magic. If Hogwarts actually existed I'm sure they'd send an owl to shit on his head.

Krista Ritchie