Yvans Jourdains Quotes

#1. Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere.

George Burns

#2. If your sleight of hand causes you to break eye contact with your audience, it is too advanced for your skill level.

Jeff McBride

#3. Our part in life may seem small, but it should bulk large in our thought when we remember that it is helping to complete the plan of the Divine Architect.

J. Grant Howard

#4. My mother had morning sickness after I was born.

Rodney Dangerfield

#5. The universe isn't mine: it's me. 139

Fernando Pessoa

#6. Honduras is strongly anti-Communist, maintains no diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, and has provided vital support for United States-backed rebels fighting to overthrow the Sandinistas in neighboring Nicaragua.

Stephen Kinzer

#7. We define thermodynamics ... as the investigation of the dynamical and thermal properties of bodies, deduced entirely from the first and second law of thermodynamics, without speculation as to the molecular constitution.

James Clerk Maxwell

#8. Biographies are, in their nature, far more difficult to make into films than novels, because novels come with plots constructed and dialogue written, whereas I don't invent dialogue for my subjects or plot their lives for them.

Claire Tomalin