Quotes About Mot

#1. Engineering, like poetry, is an attempt to approach perfection. And engineers, like poets, are seldom completely satisfied with their creations. They notice, even if no one else does, the world that is not quite le mot juste, or the hairline crack that blemishes the structure.

Henry Petroski

#2. Like everyone else, I grew up loving the Anne books, but L.M. Montgomery is so much more. Like Jane Austen, she has an eye for the absurd and a gift for the 'mot juste.'

Lauren Willig

#3. She would but be repaid by my taking her to wife, and that I could not grant her, for love cometh of the heart and mot by constraint.

Rupert S. Holland

#4. You say that someday your prince will come. More than anything, you want him to reply, "But what if your prince is right under your nose?" Instead he says, "Well, as long as he's mot one of those deposed princes ... "
You wish he weren't such a prince. You wish he were a frog.

David Levithan

#5. In France we can cauterize wounds but we do not yet know any remedy for the injuries inflicted by a bon mot.

Honore De Balzac

#6. You just put your boot so far up his ass, he'll have to eat his dinner with a shoehorn." "I can always count on you for a suitable bon mot.

Douglas Preston

#7. Le mot 'psychologie'est un de ceux qu'aucun auteur d'aujourd'hui ne peut entendre prononcer a' son sujet sans baisser les yeux et rougir. The word 'psychology' is one that no author today can hear said about her work without lowering her eyes and blushing.

Nathalie Sarraute

#8. You need not hurry when the object is only to prevent my saying a bon mot, for there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter-of-fact, plain-spoken being, and may blunder on the borders of a repartee for half an hour together without striking it out.

Jane Austen

#9. The state might say that it had taken a year to write the book, and the author might say it had taken thirty. Goethe said that every bon mot of his had cost a purse of gold. What

Upton Sinclair

#10. Dorothy Parker once said: I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid." Upon delivering this Dot bon mot, with much waving of sparkly rings and jingly bracelets, Constance Langtry comments that she'd add a fourth: "Deft tongue. And I don't mean a good talker.

Marie Wilson

#11. Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Christianity with a bon mot

Albert Einstein

#12. Small! I'm mot going to be small anymore. I'm going to be a dragon, with wings like lacquer fans and jets of fire breath for roasting up goose suppers midair! Pippin spread out her arms, imagining them wings. Why not? she asked herself.

Laini Taylor

#13. The French call mot juste the word that exactly fits. Why is this word so hard to find? The reasons are many. First, we don't always know what we mean and are too lazy too find out.

Jacques Barzun

#14. Death is the word that kills all the words. (La mort est un mot - Qui tue tous les mots)

Charles De Leusse

#15. I'm sorry, I sobbed. I'm helpless.
That's where you're wrong, she told me. You're mot helpless. You need help. There's a big difference.

Jodi Picoult

#16. I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.

Harold E. Varmus

#17. They were eyes made for laughter, but not raucous yuks; rather, for the laughter of wit, of erudition, of the bon mot.

Stephen Hunter

#18. Logic is the youth of mathematics, mathematics is the manhood of logic. This brilliant mot of the eminent philosopher of mathematics is no

Alfred Korzybski

#19. Louie, declared dead more than sixty years earlier, would outlive them all.

Laura Hillenbrand

#20. There are as many different religions as there are individuals.

Mahatma Gandhi

#21. The relevant part of the First Amendment here prohibits the making of any law, quote, "abridging the freedom of speech." And it's pretty well-established that speech comes in many forms.

Laura Sydell

#22. You will either have value, or be grist for the mill - nothing more.

Bryant McGill

#23. Sand by the seashore is inestimable.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#24. I like the Raiders. That's my favorite team.

Paul Pierce

#25. Love and accept everyone for who they are, for where they are in life. That is compassion.

Kristi Bowman

#26. One look, all is said. One word, all is lived. (Un regard, tout est dit. - Une parole, tout se vit.)

Charles De Leusse

#27. It's a wonderful world. It may destroy itself but you'll be able to watch it all on TV.

Bob Hope

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Teresa Garland Mot Otr

#29. The world I'd known had shattered around me in an instant, and now everything seemed so surreal. People went on doing exactly what they'd done before while I tip-toed through this new reality.

Katie Ashley

#30. A heavy gas generated by the fermentation of equally dense ideas, stupidity is the most common renewable source of energy, the easiest to extract, and the least costly, except when coupled with nuclear energy.

Stephane Mot

#31. I was tired of hanging on, taking the torn pieces to make something whole with them.

Sarah Dessen

#32. The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say yesterday I was happy, today I am not.

E. M. Forster