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Jean Cocteau

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Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
JEAN COCTEAU Winner dont do different but they do differently
SHIV KHERA Winners dont do different things,they do things differently
SHIV KHERA Winners dont do different things
They do things differently
SHIV KERA We dont know what were going to go home to, ... If we dont have anything anymore, Im not sure I want...
IAN WILLIAMSON Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently
KARL LAGERFELD Back then, the Red Sox would draw up to 5,000 people to their game.
JEFF BREKAS You can't understand the words of Cocteau Twins songs, but their harmonies put you in a dreamlik...
PRINCE Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old...
GREG BEAR And kid Congress and the Senate, dont scold em. They are just children thats never grown up. They do...
WILL ROGERS They need somebody to unravel their distribution problems, especially in the mid-section of their pr...
LOU MAZZUCCHELLI You have to tie up their sticks.
BLAIR BETTS Everyone knows they re going to die,' he said again, 'but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do...
MITCH ALBOM The kids have their school team, and then they have their summer team. They play the league games ha...
BRIAN ADAM Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worr...
CRAIG GROESCHEL They know what they want, but aren't sure how to find it.
JAMES C. DOBSON Ah, sweetie. If the poets couldn’t unriddle them, then you certainly can’t. Be kind, and keep yo...
ALLYSE NEAR girl/boy..!! you do it again and again even after saying so many times..!! no no..!! dats it..!! its...
FAHEEM IQBAL As the two parties said they will continue their business tie-up, their businesses are not likely to...
KOICHI SUZUKI I knew her handwriting and then they had surveillance tape of her making a payment on her account at...
MARCIA GUINAN I dont think I handle the notes much differently from other pianists. But the pauses between the not...
ARTUR SCHNABEL We have seen it time and time again where they [unions] take money for political purposes and dont g...
ERIC BEACH I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of pa...
CARL SANDBERG I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of pa...
CARL SANDBURG Through hard experience, presumably they're not going to go through with this (potential LSE tie-up)...
HENRY HU If our state sees the handwriting on the wall, then maybe we can work together and come up with some...
JOE MARTIN The poets leave hell and again behold the stars.
DANTE ALIGHIERI A few friends and me used to go and watch Bunuel, Carne, Cocteau... Cocteau and Bunuel were surreali...
HAROLD PINTER I dont want to be broke down I want to be built up and vice versa I dont want to break down but buil...
HEATHER MONTANO Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it ...
T.S. ELIOT Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE It could be a very tough tie, or we could get up 3-zip. We know how well they can play, particularly...
PATRICK MCENROE Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and...
PATTI SMITH We came back to tie it up but then it was the Anthony Christensen show. He is one of the finest runn...
LARRY OTTERBLAD The idea is to get kids out on their bikes with other kids, and just show them what it is to ride a ...
BRETT MORGAN Jean has met the criteria for this award over and over again - that's been proven.
EVELYN SMITH Hmm. Stick with white, so you can pull it out again later and do something with it, like wear it und...
BRIAN PRIMEAUX Some are just going to tie up their boats and try to find something else.
ZEKE GRADER life is to short dont mess it up
VITA NEDERLOE They dont understand what real treasure is. They see it in gold and copper, and tin. They see in her...
DAVID GEMMELL It's a great tie for everyone. It's a hard draw, but the FA Cup is all about difficult ties and dram...
SIR ALEX FERGUSON Whoever is saved, shall stop sinning.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA (Doublethink) to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary a...
GEORGE ORWELL I think Rosetta Daniels really picked it up tonight. I think she did a great job. But then again, th...
CHARLIE REPPEL It's critical that (Apple) tie up capacity. They need to secure a reliable source to fund their cont...
JOHN LAU People will talk down on you to build themselves up,People will point the fingers at your past as if...
TANICA S HALL We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when the...
OLIVE SCHREINER ... You asked how am I?? Really?? So you care about me?? or you just decided to ask to return it bac...
DEYTH BANGER We played pretty good in the first two games, but didn't get any points. Tonight we came out and pla...
JASON CHIMERA Everybody talks about freedom, citizens," the big man said gently, seeming to draw upon that very su...
JAMES JONES Don’t be deceived when they tell you things are better now. Even if there’s no poverty to be see...
JEAN-PAUL MARAT people dont know you till they meet you. dont smile if you dont want to, dont be a false person, don...
CAROLINA JANETTE GOMEZ GONZALEZ Do the days work. If it be to protect the rights of the weak, whoever objects, do it. If it be to he...
CALVIN COOLIDGE When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion.
AFRICAN PROVERB When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.
PROVERB When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.
ETHIOPIAN PROVERB When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion
ETHIOPIAN PROVERB People idealise their animals, and at the same time they patronisingly overlook a dog's natural ...
TOVE JANSSON Bad women poets are better characters, they seldom... get drunk... go to prison... shoot the pianist...
STEVIE SMITH Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.
CORMAC MCCARTHY The guys came out fired up. They knew Rossville had a chance to tie us for the conference if we let ...
DAVE BARRETT As We Say Life Is A Mystery,Then Dont Chase It,Just Live It.
KIM CHOWDHURY They were behind, and then they caught up, and then they got behind again. The amount of money in th...
GEORGE DOUGHTY Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel.
ASHISH KUMAR The jean! The jean is the destructor! It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity. The jean must b...
PIERRE CARDIN One of the themes is how is it we cope with trials and tribulations? How do we endure struggles and ...
ROSE QUIELLO Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
ABRAHAM COWLEY We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when...
OLIVE SCHREINER It is probably like an artist. They see in their head what they want to draw, and they draw it. It i...
CHARLOTTE DUJARDIN If you unravel the source code, you unravel the universe.
ANTHONY T.HINCKS When you try to talk about yourself, you dont know who you are, or what your like, or what your like...
CAROL CHANNING And mighty poets in their misery dead.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH I have a fundamental disagreement with TIE, but this is an improvement on what they were coming up w...
MARGARET SMITH you know people seriously only deciding according to their needs and remember they dont a fuck to yo...
FAAMIN Superior poets say what they really feel. Mediocre poets say what they decide to feel. Inferior poet...
ÁLVARO DE CAMPOS Their record does not indicate what kind of team they are, ... There are several games that I have s...
CHRIS HENDERSON It doesn't mean they will take it up then, but they could.
ED SMITH Who am I? I am a lot of things,with a lot of emotions,a lot of desires with passion behind my words....
TANICA S HALL We have already said 'No' to it once. They (the Commission) took the directive back to their kitchen...
JOSEP BORRELL Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.
ANONYMOUS realists are only realists if they dont dream ,dreamers can be more than dreamers if they achieve th...
JOHN THE DREAMER Nearly all men and women are poetical, to some extent, but very few can be called poets. There are g...
ORSON F. WHITNEY They would have to obtain a registration from the BAR if they wanted to operate the program like the...
DAVID MCCLUNE Coach (Kevin Craig) just kept telling us that even if they tie it up to keep our poise.
ASHLEE STEPHENS If we dont error then how are we gonna know what needs to be repaired.If we dont get angry then how ...
MICHAEL STRONG When it's all said and done we could also end up in a tie. And then it goes head to head and who kno...
HELEN SOASH If the way they make the show makes it fresh, then it's worthwhile. I think all of these forms have ...
LORNE MICHAELS It's real disappointing. We had just hit a 3-pointer ourselves to tie the game, and then they came d...
JAMES HUNTER Wise people put as much distance between themselves and sexual temptation as possible. They not only...
CRAIG GROESCHEL Aravis also had many quarrels (and, I'm afraid even fights) with Cor, but they always made it up aga...
C.S. LEWIS Each relationship between two persons is absolutely unique. That is why you cannot love two people t...
WILLIAM PAUL YOUNG Love is a stranger and dont Live here,, and it dont even Visit
KALUM JOHNSON (KDOG) Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not eas...
PERICLES Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not ea...
PERICLES Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not eas...
PERICLES There was this wonderful trick of going to the theater with my parents and sitting in the audience u...
TYNE DALY Both of my calves cramped up really bad. I went back in, but they cramped up again. But, we believe ...
MIKE GANSEY These kids learn just like their neighbors do. They just learn differently.
JOANNE DUMM But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work t...
XENOPHANES I want to tell few things, I like the truth in all faces. why??
It's the truth one road and tha...
DEYTH BANGER

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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