“What --- you don't believe in true love?" Petra asked. "The kind that can then be parlayed into awesome merchandising opportunities?" - "Beauty Queens”
“Nothing is an obstacle unless you say it is.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Today, nuclear power provides 20 percent of power in the United States.”
“I've never been one to say that Britain was joining a happy band of brothers.”
“Afflictions clarify the soul.”
“The art of being agreeable frequently miscarries through the ambition which accompanies it. Wit, learning, wisdom,--what can more effectually conduce to the profit and delight of society? Yet I am sensible that a man may be too invariably wise, learned, or witty to be agreeable; and I take the reason of this to be, that pleasure cannot be bestowed by the simple and unmixed exertion of any one faculty or accomplishment.”
“C'est pas de l'alpinisme, ça, c'est la guerre.”
“Why, I can't help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking after himself.”
Charles XII of Sweden Former King of Sweden
Madame de Pompadour Marquise de Pompadour
Marie Leszczynska
Maurice de Saxe Comte de Saxe
Stanislas de Boufflers