Jean-Claude Carriere famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Being a wine enthusiast means you care more about quality than quantity.
-- Jean-Claude Carriere

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Deciding what to read is also a matter of filtering.
-- Jean-Claude Carriere

#Matter
The dream of a writer is to be surprised by his characters. All of a sudden, they are living their own lives; they are not prisoners anymore. . . . Tati taught me how to observe, how to sit in a cafe in Paris and to look at the passersby and to guess what their story is, even a little moment of their story . . ..
-- Jean-Claude Carriere

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Faith doesn't begin until reason stops.
-- Jean-Claude Carriere

#Reason

This bread and wine are the simple but eloquent monument to the infinite love of the Son of God, around which we gather with tender, tearful gratitude, because He loved us'so, and because we know that our garlands of affection and consecration are pleasing to Him.
It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning's gentle wine! Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; 'Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread, Nature's self's thy Ganymede.
The same Jesus Who turned water into wine can transform your home, your life, your family, and your future. He is still in the miracle-working business, and His business is the business of transformation.
I'm Mozart with a focus on the tide Hiding the inconsistencies of man behind water and wine
My definition of palatable might be slightly different from yours.
Television in the 1960s & 70s had just as much dross and the programmes were a lot more tediously patronising than they are now. Memory truncates occasional gems into a glittering skein of brilliance. More television, more channels means more good television and, of course, more bad. The same equation applies to publishing, film and, I expect, sumo wrestling.
God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.
I find placebos uplifting and exhilarating. It means that taking action--no matter what the action is--might help you feel better.
The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.

Jean-Claude Carriere famous quotes

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