Savoir Vivre Quotes

#1. You're better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup ...

Ben Horowitz

#2. It's false. There is absolutely no evidence that extreme weather events are on the increase. None. The argument that more and more dollar damages accrue is a reflection of the greater amount of wealth we've created.

Jerry Taylor

#3. A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months.

Sophie Swetchine

#4. My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

Manuel Puig

#5. We had all week to rehearse. An audience would come in at the end of the week and we'd our little show. Most of the ad- libbing happened during the week on the show.

Dick Van Dyke

#6. Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Aldous Huxley

#7. The question is not, therefore, _whether_ a theory is grand or small, or whether it is universal/global or particular/local, but _what function_ a theory plays and _whose interest_ it serves.

Namsoon Kang

#8. In Marrakech, Arabian open-heartedness is served up with a generous dose of pan-African mysticism, a dollop of French savoir-vivre, and a garnish of Moorish grace. The vibe is irresistible to meaning-of-life seekers and international hipsters looking for a scene.

Vivian Swift

#9. We love what we can't have, and we can't have what we love

Wong Kar-Wai

#10. Sometimes I'm so devious I confuse myself.

John Flanagan

#11. Sometimes, there's a preconceived notion of how a scene or how a work should be delivered. And I see young performers sometimes try and deliver that, and it's not really true to their voice or who they are.

Christian Camargo

#12. It was my tutor who dissuaded me from patronizing Green or Blue at the races, or Light or Heavy in the ring;

Marcus Aurelius

#13. It was the sort of house that glows with substance and savoir vivre in those advertisements for the best Scotch. It had wonderful bones.

Robert A. Metzger

#14. Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.

Leonard Cohen

#15. People who dress up in bizarre costumes have a savoir-vivre - not to mention the sort of personality disorder - that he admires.

Thomas Pynchon

#16. Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Bernard Meltzer

#17. 'Malcolm X' was impressionable for me as a kid.

Ron Funches

#18. There are no hopeless situations, sweetheart, only people who have grown hopeless about them. You still have choices you can make.

Andy Andrews

#19. Kids are smart: don't underestimate their bull detector. Contemporary kids have access to a lot of information, so don't even try to fool them. I have never been more nervous about my research than when writing for young adults because they pick up every single error.

Isabel Allende