Quotes About Vian

#1. Les masses ont tort et les individus toujours raison. The masses are wrong; individuals are always right.

Boris Vian

#2. I can't think of another writer who can move me as surreptitiously as Vian does

Julio Cortazar

#3. Humor is the politeness of despair.

Boris Vian

#4. Don't get discouraged if you stumble at times. The first step to walking in righteousness is simply to try.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#5. Les femmes et les hommes ne vivent pas sur le me me plan. Women and men do not live according to the same design.

Boris Vian

#6. You must learn to live with the big questions and wait for the next steps to arise. Only with this patience and perseverance, can Heaven really trust you and rely upon you in the world. Oh my, I have had to wait for so many things!

Marshall Vian Summers

#7. The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced with black elements.

Boris Vian

#8. Procrastination is a prelude in a minor key.

Boris Vian

#9. The three great moments of my life had to be the concerts of Ellington in 1938, Dizzy in '48, and Ella in '52.

Boris Vian

#10. Of course, it's fun to play with Blacks.

Boris Vian

#11. Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools.

Charles Churchill

#12. Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.

Thomas Paine

#13. We cannot jump to conclusions. All we can do is measure and count. That is the task of science.

Barbara Kingsolver

#14. People want more and more leisure time, which means the freedom to do what they want to do, not what they have to do, and as we get richer and richer, more and more people will be able to afford that.

Robert Fogel

#15. Being persuaded that a just application of the principles, on which the Masonic Fraternity is founded, must be promote of private virtue and public prosperity, I shall always be happy to advance the interests of the Society, and to be considered by them as a deserving brother.

George Washington

#16. I don't know if comedy is a male sport. I always wondered that.

Maya Rudolph

#17. People don't change. Things do.

Boris Vian

#18. Nobody knew me at Buckton. Clem had chosen the town because of that; and besides, even if I had wimp out, there was not enough gas to help me going further north. - I spit on your graves ,

Boris Vian

#19. Your giving and searching for ways to give is Love in action. This is the evidence of Spirit at work.

Marshall Vian Summers

#20. I played the trumpet a bit like a porker, I think.

Boris Vian

#21. I'm not interested in the happiness of all men, but only in the happiness of each.

Boris Vian

#22. Faith can move mountains but let them happily fall down on the heads of other people. What's the point in moving mountains when it's so simple to climb over them?

Boris Vian

#23. There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly.

Boris Vian

#24. Heaven will ask things of you at some point, perhaps small things at first. You must be ready.

Marshall Vian Summers

#25. May Knowledge reshape your lives so that your greater destiny may come into view

Marshall Vian Summers

#26. You become great aligning yourself to what is great. The reverse is also true.

Marshall Vian Summers

#27. Rien n'est plus parfait, plus acheve qu'un cadavre. Nothing is more perfect, more complete than a corpse.

Boris Vian

#28. Heaven smiles upon those who share its gifts.

Marshall Vian Summers

#29. We are here for the world, not for our comfort only.

Marshall Vian Summers

#30. One ends up relying on pure musical inspiration, and failing that, the music won't lead to anything good, or it will alienate all but the most die-hard fans.

Boris Vian