Gaspard Monge famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Every one disguising the truth from a man who has a right to the truth is wrong, and ought not to be encouraged.

  • Tell a lie loud enough and long enough and people will believe it.

  • Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent.

  • Our fans want us to be happy and if that means being married or having a girlfriend, they are okay with that. Of course, in this industry it is a bit harder to have normal relationships, but it is possible.

  • You can't be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.

  • There are a billion people in China. It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people. Think of it. More than a billion people. That means even if you're a one-in-a-million type of guy, there are still a thousand guys exactly like you.

  • Let's begin by taking a smallish nap or two.

  • There are two ways of getting out of a trial. One is simply to try to get rid of the trial, and be thankful when it is over. The other is to recognize the trial as a challenge from God to claim a larger blessing than we have ever had, and to hail it with delight as an opportunity of obtaining a larger measure of divine grace.

  • On occasions, after drinking a pint of beer at luncheon, there would be a flow into my mind with sudden and unaccountable emotion, sometimes a line or two of verse, sometimes a whole stanza, accompanied, not preceded by a vague notion of the poem which they were destined to form a part of.... I say bubble up because, so far as I could make out, the source of the suggestions thus proffered to the brain was the pit of the stomach.

  • If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.