Quotes About Jaques

#1. Certainly, I've loved musicals for a while, so I did some short films in college that had musical numbers and things like that, so I've kind of been obsessed with Fred and Ginger and Vincente Minnelli and Stanley Donen and Jaques Demy forever.

Damien Chazelle

#2. Hold your tongue if you'd like to keep it. - Jaques

N.D. Wilson

#3. There are fights that you may lose without losing your honor; what makes you lose your honor is not to fight.
-Jaques Jaujard

Robert M. Edsel

#4. Legitimacy is the elixir of political power. "The strongest is never strong enough to be the master", Jean-Jaques Rousseau observed, "unless he translates strength into right and obedience into duty". Only democracy has that authority in the world today.

Fareed Zakaria

#5. JAQUES: Rosalind is your love's name?
ORLANDO: Yes, just.
JAQUES: I do not like her name.
ORLANDO: There was no thought of pleasing you when she was christened.

William Shakespeare

#6. When I later discovered that she (illustrator Faith Jaques) was a compulsive reader who loved to be alone and kept cats because they are the only pets that allow you to be both, my adoration of Jaques and her work could only increase.

Lucy Mangan

#7. If I were to share Jaques' existence I would find it hard to hold my own against him, for already I found his nihilism contagious.

Simone De Beauvoir

#8. Jaques was only what he was; but from a distance he became something more, became everything to me, everything I did not possess. It was to him I owed pains and pleasures whose violence alone saved me from the deserts of boredom in which I found myself bogged down.

Simone De Beauvoir

#9. You are full of pretty answers. Have you not been acquainted with goldsmiths' wives and conned them out of rings?

William Shakespeare

#10. Alas! those good old days are gone, when a murderer could wipe the stain from his name and soothe his trouble to sleep simply by getting out his blocks and mortar and building an addition to a church.

Mark Twain

#11. Go out, go out I beg of you And taste the beauty of the wild. Behold the miracle of the earth With all the wonder of a child.

Edna Jaques

#12. It is a huge honour to be recognised as the world's best commentator, particularly against so many sporting greats.

Murray Walker

#13. Music acts on the whole of the organism like a magic force which suppresses the understanding and irresistibly takes possession of the entire being. To insist on analysing this force is to destroy its very essence.

Emile Jaques-Dalcroze

#14. Life is like a great jazz riff. You sense the end the very moment you were wanting it to go on forever.

Sheila Ballantyne

#15. No two men living at the same time live in the same time.

Elliott Jaques

#16. Memory's got nothing to do with years. You remember what you remember.

Ian McEwan

#17. Don't let society put a mark on you, instead put your mark on society.

Jeanette Coron

#18. The longest show I've ever done was four and a half years, so I can only imagine what ending an eight year show is like.

Scott Bakula

#19. Motley's the only wear.

William Shakespeare

#20. Time was like a river, and I was a fish in that river, moving so quickly that the world outside my household was blur.

Alice Hoffman

#21. Ausonius must be read to be believed! As poet, no subject is too trivial for him; as courtier, no flattery too excessive.

Decimius Magnus Ausonius

#22. Until teachers get their due it is difficult to bring about a change.

Narendra Modi

#23. Christmas Day itself is always bittersweet, because it's the last day of that beautiful magick that's been building up like a tidal wave for the past month. In just a week it will be hard to even remember what it's like. I'll be brokenhearted at the thought of it being gone again for an entire year.

Damien Echols

#24. Marriage is a wonderful thing, the wonder of wonders. It is a veritable garden of delights, a perennial fountain of the most exquisite sweetness, happiness, a land of enchantment. The riches and honors of the world are nothing in comparison with it.

John Jaques

#25. Not for the mighty world. O Lord, tonight, Nations and kingdoms in their fearful might
Let me be glad the kettle gently sings, Let me be grateful for little things.

Edna Jaques

#26. There'll always be Christmas as long as a light
Glows in the window to guide folks at night,
As long as a star in the heavens above,
Keeps shining down ... there'll be Christmas and love.

Edna Jaques

#27. Leaders create an environment in which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.

Elliott Jaques