Jacques Yves Cousteau Quotes

The sea is the universal sewer.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: explorer
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: June 11, 1910 - June 25, 1997

Topics

SeaUniversalSewer

It's one thing to know your lines, another to be able to deliver them. The taste of the pudding is in the delivery.

Jeffrey Wright

KnowTasteDeliveryLinesOne Thing

My books are not about how it feels to be a black man. My books are about how it feels to be a human being, and part of what I'm trying to sort out is what we mean - what I mean, what you mean, what everybody in the culture means - when they say 'black man,' or they say 'white person.'

John Edgar Wideman

CultureManBlackTryingYouPerson

I can only have dinner with my girlfriends once a month instead of once a week.

Andrea Jung

DinnerWeekI CanMonthGirlfriends

When I discovered that, through acting, you can speak a beautiful language aloud and have a relationship to language that isn't one that's just eyes-to-page, pen-to-page - it's one that's full-bodied, full-voiced, full-heart... it really opened my heart and made me feel like I could be a storyteller.

Maya Hawke

RelationshipHeartBeautifulMeYou

I put everyone in my school on to Nicki Minaj before she blew up. I was obsessed with her and I was like, 'If she's the best female rapper then I've got to be better than her.'

Angel Haze

BestSchoolBetterSheRapperUp

The price of being a nice guy is too high - much too high - in terms of the system of justice.

Jed S. Rakoff

JusticePriceNiceHighSystemGuy

'Paranormal Activity' had fifty versions because it was $250 to reshoot. We'd screen it, see one thing wrong, shoot for an hour, fix it, and then screen it again. You don't have to be disciplined about it. On a regular movie, you have to screen it and think of every problem, reshoot for three days and solve every problem, and then you're done.

Jason Blum

ThinkProblemYouWrongDoneThree

See, I'm not a very good musician.

Jay Asher

GoodSeeMusicianVery

I think that... discrimination in the job market is a very important area where work needs to be done.

Coretta Scott King

WorkJobThinkDiscriminationDone

One must strike the right balance between speed and quality.

Clare Short

QualityBalanceSpeedStrikeRight

Realistically, guys who are into gaming are not necessarily watching television.

Bonnie Hammer

TelevisionGamingWatchingWhoGuys

If any man has left us for fear of Nero, I shall not account him a coward; but I shall hail as a philosopher any man who has been superior to this fear, and I shall teach him all I know.

Apollonius of Tyana

FearManKnowTeachHimCoward

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