Top 19 Savoir Vivre Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. People who dress up in bizarre costumes have a savoir-vivre - not to mention the sort of personality disorder - that he admires.
Thomas Pynchon
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. There are no hopeless situations, sweetheart, only people who have grown hopeless about them. You still have choices you can make.
Andy Andrews
#7. 'Malcolm X' was impressionable for me as a kid.
Ron Funches
#8. Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.
Bernard Meltzer
#9. Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
Leonard Cohen
#10. It was my tutor who dissuaded me from patronizing Green or Blue at the races, or Light or Heavy in the ring;
Marcus Aurelius
#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
#13. We love what we can't have, and we can't have what we love
Wong Kar-Wai
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
Manuel Puig
#17. A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months.
Sophie Swetchine
#18. 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
#19. You're better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup ...
Ben Horowitz
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