Jean Cocteau Quotes

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Jean Cocteau

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: July 5, 1889 - October 11, 1963

Topics

SuccessArtRewardBadFameWhy

Embryonic stem cell research will prolong life, improve life and give hope for life to millions of people.

Jim Ramstad

LifeHopePeopleResearchWillGive

As a producer and director, I've tried for years to get properties off the ground for girls, and I've been hitting a brick wall.

Melanie Mayron

BrickWallDirectorProducerGround

The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.

Andy Rooney

SadMomentDoorBlessedComfort

Gradually I find that my whole soul is merging itself into this business of writing, and especially of writing poetry. I am going to try it; and am going to test, in the most rigid way I know, the awful question whether it is my vocation.

Sidney Lanier

BusinessSoulI AmPoetryWriting

Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon.

Ron Paul

WarEndPowerfulSpecialWillReal

Tact ops is a unit which breaks into homes and offices to plant bugging devices. They get into mafia hangouts, they go into embassies, they go into terrorist hangouts, and they describe themselves as court-sanctioned burglars.

Ronald Kessler

PlantGoMafiaGetTactDevices

One of the reasons I took up acting was to learn to be more human, to get in touch with human emotions.

Masi Oka

LearnActingEmotionsTouchHuman

Football: War with cleats and pads.

Mike Gallagher

FootballWarPads

It's funny, when I'm not on the road or doing stuff with Bad Company - or whatever- I've always written songs galore... a lot of stuff people don't even hear.

Mick Ralphs

FunnyPeopleRoadDoingBadCompany

Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis.

Michael Porter

PositiveGoodCrisisNeedJust

I will always come back to do Australian films. I think it matters. I think we can make films that people go and see. And I don't think it's too much to ask that films in this country make a profit and that we embrace them.

Josh Lawson

PeopleThinkBackProfitToo Much

You can't treat your voice badly and expect it to stay around.

Cissy Houston

TreatVoiceYouExpectStayYour

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