Quotes About Quotes From Candide About Cunegonde

#1. Yet by such worthless beings is a great nation to be governed and even made to deify their old king because he is only a fool and a maniac, and to forgive and forget his having lost to them a great and flourishing empire.

Thomas Jefferson

#2. I will say you could always look at 'Looney Tunes' and learn about writing. I think you can learn a lot about the beats of comedy. I think you can find out about awkward pauses, because I think they did those well.

Jim Rash

#3. Fall, then figure out what to do on the way down.

Del Close

#4. Once you realized that everyone with whom you associated was, potentially, happy to literally stab you in the back, all the wondering just . . . went away.

Christie Golden

#5. Japanese are very proud and workaholics. Proud workaholics.

Yoko Ono

#6. You must act as if the goal were infinitely far off.

Eugen Herrigel

#7. The real way to enjoy playing golf is to take pleasure not in the score, but in the execution of strokes.

Bobby Jones

#8. Before her, with sharp blue eyes and perfectly coiffed blond hair, was Josephine Marie Elizabeth Cavendish, Her Grace, the Duchess of Durham, widow of the fifth duke, and aunt to the Cavendish siblings.
One did not call her Josie. Amelia had asked.

Maya Rodale

#9. The sea does not contain all the pearls, the earth does not enclose all the treasures, and the flint-stone does not inclose all the diamonds, since the head of man encloses wisdom.

Saadi