Un Homme Quotes

#1. The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool.
[Fr., Du meme fonds dont on neglige un homme de merite l'on sait encore admirer un sot.]

Jean De La Bruyere

#2. A good man ("un homme de bien", Fr.) never wholly perishes, the best part of his being outlives (or survives) in eternity.

African Spir

#3. Un homme avec Dieu est toujours dans la majorite . One man with God is always a majority.

John Knox

#4. Un homme qui lit, ou qui pense, ou qui calcule, appartient a' l'espe' ce et non au sexe; dans ses meilleurs moments, il e chappe me me a' l'humain. A person who reads or thinks or calculates, belongs to a kind and not to a gender; in his or her best moments, he or she escapes being human.

Stephanie Crayencour

#5. Quand on voit le style naturel, on est tout e tonne et ravi, car on s'attendait de voir un auteur, et on trouve un homme. When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author and find a man.

Blaise Pascal

#6. Chacun de nous a un jour, plus ou moins triste, plus ou moins lointain, o u' il doit enfin accepter d'e tre un homme. There will come a day for each of us, more or less sad, more or less distant, whenwe must accept the condition of being human.

Jean Anouilh

#7. I chuckled like Aldo Ray. If I had to endure his l'homme du monde act, he had to suffer my jaded alcoholic private eye.

James Crumley

#8. Other brands I like besides Versace ... Tom Ford makes incredible suits. I love the glasses as well. I have a plethora of Tom Ford shades. Who else do I like? Dolce & Gabbana, Dior Homme.

Trey Songz

#9. When you try to put everything into music, there's no room left to try to make you think we're cool. We know you think we're cool.

Joshua Homme

#10. I think if you play music and you join a scene you're already too late.

Josh Homme

#11. By the time you get to your sixth record, some of the benefits of being in a band are grander than ever, but some of the obstacles are just massive. You deal with these lateral subjects, and all that is left is the elephant in the room.

Josh Homme

#12. I'm just going to put out three or four releases a year and make it so that if you like the Desert Sessions, then you'll definitely like everything else.

Josh Homme

#13. I asked my friend Greg Andersson to introduce me to people that can distribute my album.

Josh Homme

#14. If you wanna be famous, then it's okay if the music is fake, because fame isn't real.

Josh Homme

#15. When you get sick and it's extended, you go through all these mental phases, and everyone handles them differently.

Josh Homme

#16. When it's time to make music, that's about getting lost for me. To be a control freak is not half as good as being a freak who's casually in control. You're feeling around in the dark for something that feels good.

Josh Homme

#17. I'm always looking for cool stuff to do because that's what we're supposed to do, ya know?

Josh Homme

#18. Making people uncomfortable is one of my hobbies. I'm always hoping that half the people get the joke and the other half are the joke.

Josh Homme

#19. A homemade affair that's just in time for Halloween.

Joshua Homme

#20. I think part of what happens is that small labels want to get bigger. And bigger is not better.

Josh Homme

#21. Foolishly play with the fires of rumor, only to risk being burned by its treacherous flames.

Joshua Homme

#22. The expression of this idea is Queens of the Stone Age, but the idea is that you will never slack on the music and will always humble yourself at the alter of Rock.

Josh Homme

#23. I hate that sense of entitlement or the sense of business crawling into playing music.

Joshua Homme

#24. You wanna be there for everybody, but it's just not possible.

Josh Homme

#25. I've always considered myself a workaholic ... The way I work, I have to turn myself upside down and hang myself by my ankles and wring myself out like a wet sweater, and I have to do that with other people, too, because I think that's where something good comes out.

Josh Homme

#26. I think more people need to make out.

Josh Homme

#27. The kind aunt with whom I lived, herself the purest of beings, always told me that there was nothing she so desired for me as that I should have relations with a married woman: 'Rien ne forme un juene homme, comme une liaison avec une femme comme il faut'.{1}

Leo Tolstoy

#28. The cat that laughs is crazy. Man who does not laugh is below... (Le chat qui rit est un fou. - Homme qui ne rit est dessous...)

Charles De Leusse

#29. I don't know who are the men and who are the women. In French I used to say "je suis un femme et une homme." That is to say a feminine male and a masculine female. A she man and a he woman. What I am interested in is developing a singularity, which would be my own.

Orlan

#30. Independent minded girls that are naked sounds like a great start to something.

Joshua Homme

#31. I think the best thing I could ever teach my daughter is that she's not an object or a trophy, and that she can trust in herself and believe in herself and that you are not your things, and you are not your job.

Josh Homme

#32. I think people listen to whatever they think is good.

Josh Homme

#33. The first record I bought was a Carl Perkins record, because I saw him at The Festival at Sandpoint, Idaho. I loved Elvis and I found out that he wrote 'Blue Suede Shoes' ... so connecting that experience of going to see him play was pretty awesome. That's when I realised I wanted to play guitar.

Josh Homme

#34. I think music is a selfish masturbatory event - for the listener, the maker, the candlestick ... maker.

Joshua Homme

#35. I like to move forward and notice things along the roadside that indicate where I should go.

Josh Homme

#36. L'homme qui a un peu use ses e motions est plus presse de plaire que d'aimer. The person who has used his emotions even a little is more anxious to please than to love.

Sydney Samuelson

#37. Any band on their first couple records is just trying to keep up with their inspiration.

Josh Homme

#38. I think people get fixated on the example of an idea.

Josh Homme

#39. I like to keep my feet on the sidewalk.

Josh Homme

#40. I'm not politically correct; I never said I was.

Josh Homme

#41. Banks are kinda cool, you put some money in there. It should be kinda vaguely sexy, but it's not.

Joshua Homme

#42. I think people believe I'm some kind of evil dictator sometimes. But I don't much care about that.

Josh Homme

#43. I'm not a militant, drug-taking freak! I'm sensitive.

Joshua Homme

#44. Records don't have to be perfect. Everyone doesn't have to move left when everyone else moves left. I love hearing the mistakes.

Josh Homme

#45. I got into guitar because no parent will buy their eight-year-old kid drums unless they're divorced and trying to get back at their wife. You know what I mean?

Josh Homme

#46. Not everyone deserves to be a musician, you get lucky enough to be one.

Josh Homme

#47. I've been playing live gigs since I was 13. I really don't know how to do anything else, and please God strike me down.

Joshua Homme

#48. I like to make the music that I really love. You're supposed to make your favorite music that no one else played, and I'd like to just keep it at that and not really change it at all.

Josh Homme

#49. I break my back for music because it's something that I love, but I'm not going to break my back for a bank. I wouldn't want to be an ATM repairman; there are some things that just aren't worth it.

Joshua Homme

#50. People don't want their actors acting like musicians.

Josh Homme