Vivant Quotes

#1. I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd; or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing.

Fernando Pessoa

#2. My mom was always my biggest teacher, my inspiration, my role model. My mom was just the most amazing person. She was like a bon vivant in that she just lived each day to the fullest. As soon as I became a vegetarian, she became a vegetarian.

Christie Brinkley

#3. I'm Volstag and what you see is what you get. He's a bon vivant lover of life epicurean goodfellow. He's a god, which helps. He's full of life. He reminds me very much of Falstaff. There's a wonderful innocence to him and the steadfast loyalty of a big Saint Bernard dog.

Ray Stevenson

#4. American secretaries of state have typically been more buttoned up than bon vivant, but John Quincy Adams's diplomatic successes - bigger than anything presidential or legislative that he achieved - still surprise a student of his personality.

Thomas Mallon

#5. Anyone who has not experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

Jean Genet

#6. People always looked beautiful when they slept, vulnerable and innocent.

Jeyn Roberts

#7. I take the work seriously, just not myself in it.

Henry Rollins

#8. I want to be inspiring to myself, to my kids, my family, and my friends.

Jodie Foster

#9. We don't want to keep secrets anymore.

Nong Duc Manh

#10. Life would be much simpler if men could fuck themselves, don't you agree?

George R R Martin

#11. This has been my most satisfying, my most gratifying, my most content year, and to culminate this way is perfection.
(on the Los Angeles Galaxy's 2005 season)

Cobi Jones