Jean Giraudoux Quotes

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

Jean Giraudoux

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: dramatist
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: October 29, 1882 - January 31, 1944

Topics

NatureTruthImaginationLawLawyer

I didn't go to classes there, but ended up at the Cinematheque, and there it opened up even wider because there I saw a variety of films from all over the world.

Jim Jarmusch

WorldGoOverUpVarietySaw

I've said no to 'Celebrity Big Brother,' 'Strictly,' and the American one, 'Dancing With The Stars.' I don't feel it's right for me. I've been asked to do reality TV a zillion times. No way. No way. Nobody's going to get into my living room and see me there.

Joan Collins

StarsBrotherMeRealityAmerican

As a child, I was consumed with a near-obsessive curiosity about what the world felt like for other creatures.

John Burnside

ChildWorldCuriosityLikeCreatures

Most cornmeal producers don't tell you when their cornmeal was milled, which makes it difficult to know how long the product has been sitting in the store before you bought it.

Jeremy Jackson

LongYouKnowSittingDifficult

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.

John Keats

LoveBeautyManBlamePraiseHim

I'm really into lip cream. I have this one by Hourglass: it's an oil with this gold-tip applicator, and it's schmancy-schmancy. When you get to the point that your lips are cracking, the price is worth it.

Anna Kendrick

LipsWorthYouPriceOilWorth It

Preppy never goes away. It just has its moment every 15 years, and then it goes back underground.

Michael Bastian

MomentBackNeverYearsAwayJust

At some point, when I finished school in Zurich, I suddenly realised that I was nobody. I couldn't find a shape. Everything I was had been invented. Initially, I took it to be a fundamental conflict. But today I find pleasure in accepting that this thing called 'identity' is the true invention. There's no way that it really exists.

Sophie Hunger

TodaySchoolIdentityConflictFind

My favourite season is autumn, and I love walking through woods.

Lucy Davis

LoveWoodsWalkingThroughAutumn

The Tories and the Lib Dems talk about social mobility, but, short of winning the lottery, the only way to guarantee young people from all backgrounds the opportunity to do better and to raise aspirations is through education.

Lucy Powell

EducationOpportunityPeopleWinning

We need to dig deep and give people a reason to be optimistic just as Obama is doing in America. Because in the same way that outcome of the U.S. elections will change the course of events there and around the world, so too do politics here in Britain.

Lucy Powell

ChangePoliticsPeopleWorldDeep

In the early days, a Georgia college kid named Chris Putnam created a virus that made your Facebook profile resemble MySpace, then the social-media incumbent. It went rampant and started deleting user data as well. Instead of siccing the F.B.I. dogs on Putnam, Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz invited him for an interview and offered him a job.

Antonio Garcia Martinez

JobCollegeDataEarlyKidDogs

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