Une Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Happy the poet who with ease can steer
From grave to gay, from lively to severe.
[Lat., Heureux qui, dans ses vers, sait d'une voix legere
Passer du grave au doux, du plaisant au severe.]

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

#3. It is worse that a crime, it is a blunder.
[Fr., C'est plus qu'un crime, c'est une faute.]

Joseph Fouche

#4. Dans une grande a me tout est grand. In a great soul everything isgreat.

Blaise Pascal

#5. Une immense esprance a travers la terre', he read somewhere, and his comment was:'
and it's darned-well drowned everything worth having.

D.H. Lawrence

#6. Quand notre coeur a fait une fois sa vendange, Vivre est un mal. Once our heart has been harvested once, Life becomes miserable.

Charles Baudelaire

#7. Une with diffraction, just as if we let a thousand

John Gribbin

#8. Heaven deprives me of a wife who never caused me any other grief than that of her death.
[Fr., Le ciel me prive d'une epouse qui ne m'a jamais donne d'autre chagrin que celui de sa mort.]

Louis XIV

#9. One look, all is said. One word, all is lived. (Un regard, tout est dit. - Une parole, tout se vit.)

Charles De Leusse

#10. Apre' s le rare bonheur de trouver une compagne qui nous soit bien assortie, l'e tat le moins malheureux de la vie est sans doute de vivre seul. After the rare happiness of finding a companion with whom we are well matched, the least unpleasant state of life is without doubt to live alone.

Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

#11. If you possess a library and a garden, you have everything you need. (translation from the French) Si vous possedez une bibliotheque et un jardin, vous avez tout ce qu'il vous faut.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#12. Tout est poison, rien n'est poison, tout est une question de dose. Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose.

Claude Bernard

#13. Une ample Come die a' cent actes divers, Et dont la sce' ne est l'Univers. A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.

Jean De La Fontaine

#14. I toyed with the idea of playing Ravel's 'Pavane pour une infante defunte' but I couldn't remember if it's a tune or Latin prescription for piles.

Les Dawson

#15. Physiognomy is not a guide that has been given us by which to judge of the character of men: it may only serve us for conjecture.
[Fr., La physionomie n'est pas une regle qui nous soit donnee pour juger des hommes; elle nous peut servir de conjecture.]

Jean De La Bruyere

#16. 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

#17. But it is a pipe."
"No, it's not," I said. It's a drawing of a pipe. Get it? All representations of a thing are inherently abstract. It's very clever.

John Green

#18. Ce n'est gue' re que dans les asiles que les coquettes gardent avec ente tement une foi entie' re en des regards absents; normalement, elles re clament des te moins. Women fond of dress are hardly ever entirely satisfied not to be seen, except among the insane; usually they want witnesses.

Simone De Beauvoir

#19. A blue-stocking is the scourge of her husband, children, friends, servants, and every one.
[Fr., Une femme bel-esprit est le fleau de son mari, de ses enfants, de ses amis, de ses valets, et tout le monde.]

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#20. Une maison sans chat, c'est la vie sans soleil. (A house without a cat is like live without sunshine.) --
One of Julia Child's favorite sayings.

Therese Burson

#21. Vous avez, une vie bien vivre ... You have one life, live it well!

Timothy Pina

#22. Paul Valery speaks of the 'une ligne donnee' of a poem. One line is given to the poet by God or by nature, the rest he has to discover for himself.

Stephen Spender

#23. For me, playing music while I write is important. Several of the romantic scenes in 'Paris' were written with Debussy's 'String Quartet,' his 'L'Apres-midi d'une Faune,' or Canteloube's 'Songs of the Auvergne' playing in the background.

Edward Rutherfurd