[Sire,] je n'ai pas eu besoin de cette hypothèse." En répondant Napoléon qui lui demanda pourquoi sa théorie de l'univers ne indique pas Dieux.
My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.
If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not responsible, and nothing is your fault.
There is nothing wrong with being a declared liberal or conservative and conducting a sympathetic interview with a political figure who shares your views.
Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. ---in Good Housekeeping
But one immediate thing can be done right now, and that is: lower the temperature. Any way you can, and everybody. Just lower it.
Some people absorb in different ways. I didn't realize until I was 15 years old how much I retained.
I think that witnessing ecological problems visible from space is one of the new and essential roles of astronauts.
And everything stopped quite rapidly because I knew that nobody in Europe was able to go to space. It was the privilege of being either American or Russian.
I never did calligraphy... But handwriting is an entirely different kind of thing. It's part of the syndrome of modernism... It's part of that asceticism.
People, when they buy a hat, they can't explain why they want to buy it or why they want it, but they do. It's like chocolate.
Hats are really for ultimate occasions, so when I make one, I try to do something different, something noticeable.
When people come and visit me and have a hat made, it's a little bit like visiting a psychiatrist, but they don't actually realize that.
Not long ago, a hat was a conformist accessory. Then the 1960s came along, and young people didn't want to wear hats.
Tú, pájaro, vivirás en los árboles y volarás por los aires, alcanzarás la región de las nubes, rozarás la transparencia del cielo y no tendrás miedo de caer.
Being a small boy it's very daunting seeing the Queen around and not really quite knowing what to talk about.
I'm probably a bit of a cheeky grandson, like my brother as well. We both take the mickey a bit too much.
I have come to believe that the best kind of walk, or journey, is the one in which you have no particular destination when you set out.
Racial segregation in the South not only separated the races, but it separated the South from the rest of the country.
A president cannot sit on his hands and be seen as passive in the face of ruthless action by a foreign dictator.
After one party loses two elections in a row, there's sort of blood in the water.
