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Jean Cocteau

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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot, which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie
JEAN COCTEAU I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie.
MICHAEL ONDAATJE We're not tethered to a fence, we're just too dumb to untie the knot
MARK LAMBERT Why try to untie a knot with your teeth if you can do it with your hands?
AKBAR HASHEMI RAFSANJANI A change in thought can change a lot. A change thought can untie and untangle the knot
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Pregnancy is barbaric. … The husband's guilty waning of sexual desire, the woman's tears in fr...
THE CHILDREN I beheld the trappings of upper-middle-class comfort. The big-screen TV and VCR. The crush of name-b...
THE CHILDREN Getting married is also called tying the knot but wondering why it looks like a noose around the nec...
ANUJ SOMANY Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter: tha...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Never cut what you can untie.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Childhood is bound like the Gordian knot with my memories of the Black Sea, and I still feel its wat...
PAUL CHRISTENSEN When I first cut my hair short, I was trying for a mix of Mia Farrow and Jean Seberg. The photo I to...
MORENA BACCARIN You don't have to look any farther than the state of California to know that having a 'Gordi...
CARY KENNEDY While he spends all of his time trying to remember... I spend all of my time trying to forget
COLLEN HOOVER A man spends the first half of his life learning habits that shorten the other half of his life.
UNKNOWN Untie the hands of state and federal judges and prosecutors, ... Give them options other than turnin...
WILLIAM SCHULZ Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.
PETER USTINOV No man deserves a woman like that. He mortgages his very soul to win her and spends his life paying ...
TESSA DARE The poet takes the best things out of his life and puts them into his work. Hence his work is beauti...
LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY A transvestite spends her entire life trying to look as feminine as possible and I have clearly spen...
VIN DIESEL Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth. -Peter Ustinov.
PETER USTINOV Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward.
ERIC ROTH You're afraid of getting hurt like I'm afraid to die. It doesn't mean I'm not going to live every da...
VI KEELAND The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or wh...
C. WRIGHT MILLS Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
ANTOINE RIVAROL She was restless. She drove a little too fast, swam a little too far offshore. She hitchhiked. She s...
ELIZABETH WINDER If in barbed wire things can bloom, why couldn't I? I will not die, I will not die.
FRIEDL AND THE CHILDREN OF TEREZIN To the poet, his travels, his adventures, his loves, his indignations are finally resolved in verse,...
WILLIAM JAY SMITH It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lu...
A. N. WILSON The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.
LOTTE LEHMANN Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots...
SIRI HUSTVEDT A few friends and me used to go and watch Bunuel, Carne, Cocteau... Cocteau and Bunuel were surreali...
HAROLD PINTER Lesson 1: Don't trust anybody.
Lesson 2: Be confident.
Lesson 3: Nothing is ever what it s...
JACK HEATH Even if a man spends his life staring at shadows, he will still know where the sun is.
JOHN H.D. LUCY Anything that is exclusive will be accused of elitism; living one’s dreams will be called pretenti...
FENNEL HUDSON The poet strips naked. The philosopher takes notes.
MARTY RUBIN Commuter -- one who spends his life in riding to and from his wife; And man who shaves and takes a t...
E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE Of course you don't deserve her. No man deserves a woman like that. He mortgages his very soul to wi...
TESSA DARE Creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it.
VICTOR SHAMAS Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... A verdict of guilty means that Mr. Wilson spends the rest of his life in prison. He dies there.
LOUIS JORDAN A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.
JAMES BROUGHTON Did you know that the average American spends six months of his or her life waiting for red lights t...
MEGAN MCCAFFERTY - Mrzim sve što je odricanje!
- Ni ja, Ivane, ne pristajem da se odričem. Ja hoću ceo, sav, ...
DOBRICA ĆOSIć Boring people live boring lives.
HABEEB AKANDE Adults are only children with a few more years on top.
CJ HECK Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the r...
SALVATORE QUASIMODO Life is a competition to eliminate fear and doubts to double our life to live better not bitter in t...
NAZIM AMBALATH We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL Memory holds together past and present, gives continuity and dignity to human life... the companion....
MARK VAN DOREN Everyone is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example
PHAEDRUS When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself,he is very careful about how much he sp...
MILTON FRIEDMAN In the journey of life, certain paths may seem to be leading nowhere because of a mountain or hill o...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have th...
STEPHEN KING So great is my veneration for the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read it the more confi...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Love spends his all, and still hath store.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poe...
SALVATORE QUASIMODO It's my hope that he spends every minute of the rest of his life without seeing the light of day and...
KEITH HENDERSON He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact th...
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO His children, his grandchildren were the light of his life.
BARBARA REILLY When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself,
he is very careful about how much ...
MILTON FRIEDMAN Sad is the lot, who, once at least in his life, had not been a poet
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE The toughest challenge I faced came right at the beginning of my career with 'Blood Knot,' w...
ATHOL FUGARD When a politician spends a million on himself, we rally and call him a thief. But when a cardinal sp...
JUSTIN VILLANUEVA Abstract conversations are my favourite, for they unviel true convictions.
PARUL WADHWA From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life:
“In a slum somewhere in India
As...
THE PROPHET OF LIFE Maya Angelou had the ability to glean inspiration out of pain.
THE PROPHET OF LIFE If we cannot always be entirely sane in our relationships, the kindest thing we can do for those who...
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CRISS JAMI The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into th...
G.K. CHESTERTON The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which t...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY The everlasting God has in His wisdom foreseen from eternity the cross that He now presents to you a...
ST. FRANCIS DE SALES Beneath the rust and grime which dulls the shine of our weathered hearts, joy patiently waits to be ...
JOHN MARK GREEN The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spend...
H. L. MENCKEN The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent wh...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET He that spends a Groat a day idly, spends idly above 6 l. a year, which is the Price of using 100 l.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the p...
JOS In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the p...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET . She was beautiful, and her temperament seemed much better than his first wife did. Arman stopped i...
GRACE WILLOWS I'm not sure why the saying goes..."be careful what you wish for"...it should be, "prepare yourself ...
C. NZINGHA SMITH The average american spends six months of his or her life waiting for red lights to turn green. six ...
MEGAN MCCAFFERTY His word is as good as a tied knot.
RUSSIAN PROVERB untie the rope from underneath the sink.
STEVE RELFORD Don't tell me you're one of those people who becomes their disease. I know so many people like that....
JOHN GREEN Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that’s ov...
JOSS WHEDON He created us for adventure, not ease.
MARY E. DEMUTH ...we live on the edge of the abstract all the time. Look at something solid in the known world: an ...
NATALIE GOLDBERG That speaks to his versatility. We'll have our work cut out for us trying to stop him.
GREG TAYLOR From the beginning, about the rude altar of the god, to the days of Goethe, of Leopardi, and of Vict...
GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work!
DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ...
GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL And spare the poet for his subject's sake.
WILLIAM COWPER

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JEAN KERR Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. Thi...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
JEAN ROSTAND One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.
JEAN ROSTAND Small crimes always precedes great ones.
JEAN RACINE Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. ...
JEAN GENET