Jean Giraudoux Quotes

Ask any soldier. To kill a man is to merit a woman.

Jean Giraudoux

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WomanManAskSoldierMeritAny

I've found it easier to write, to coalesce my thoughts, since having children. It brings you back to what you experienced yourself as a child, and you empathize with what your parents went through.

Jill Hennessy

ChildrenYourselfChildParentsYou

The man you married is yours to have and to hold for the rest of ever, even if he starts chewing tobacco or decides to pierce his hairy nipple and buy a Corvette, because you very plainly said - or at least implied - you were in it for better or for worse.

Jenna McCarthy

ManRestBetterYouSaidBuy

Someone is going to win and someone is going to lose. That's also what happens in almost every movie - someone is going to win and someone is going to lose.

John Lee Hancock

WinSomeoneLoseGoingAlmostMovie

You begin to see that all of these things are connected: The kind of cuts that mean less environmental protection are also the kind of cuts that mean less musical education for the schools and that also mean more overcrowded schools.

Robert Hass

EducationEnvironmentalYouKindSee

My greatest sense of accomplishment has come from having two amazing sons, but it's also a paradox in that the times when I felt like the biggest failure have been times when I felt like, as a parent, I wasn't making the right decisions or succeeding in the way that I should.

Michael Franti

FailureAmazingAccomplishmentParent

The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity.

Michael J. Fox

OpportunityYouDeserveOnlyWorse

In the morning, Capra would arrive with twenty-or-so pages in which he'd written down all of his ideas. Most were terrible, then all of a sudden there would be one which was astounding.

Sidney Buchman

MorningIdeasDownTerribleWould

You worry just as much about great performance as you do about underperformance.

Mary Callahan Erdoes

GreatPerformanceWorryYouJust

To be a gourmet you must start early, as you must begin riding early to be a good horseman. You must live in France, your father must have been a gourmet. Nothing in life must interest you but your stomach.

Ludwig Bemelmans

LifeGoodFatherLiveStartYou

People always think that if you eat anything as a model, it's amazing. I used to tease them and say, you know I'm going to throw up afterwards.

Christy Turlington

PeopleAmazingThinkYouKnowSay

In Nashville, everybody just wants to write the best songs. So it's a very inviting songwriting community.

Brett Young

CommunityBestNashvilleSongwriting

My dad is a writer, and to see him always in front of a typewriter gave me the inspiration to write. He was my idol, my hero. I wanted to be just like him.

Shakira

HeroMeWriteInspirationHimSee

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