D.B.C. Pierre Quotes

Progress in painting, there's no such thing! ...One day I went and changed the yellow on my palette. Well, the result was, I floundered for ten years!

You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.

Every goal is hard work, especially in such an excellent league as the Bundesliga; or even take the Champions League.

I've worked really hard on getting into the box more and being closer to the goal, which I think has brought real benefits to my game. It's definitely improved my goal scoring.

Didier Drogba and Samuel Eto'o, two fantastic African footballers. So successful. And very nice characters as well. I got the luck to know them personally. They helped me a lot.

The moment my name was called [Africa's Footballer of the Year] was truly overwhelming and I was about to scream with joy.

[Didier] Drogba sent me a text message after I won the African Player of the Year award. It made me very happy.

With [Samuel] Eto'o, I talked a lot about his great career and how I could become a better player.

I have a passion for fast cars. To drive them means pure joy to me.

Glory is a shroud that posterity often tears from the shoulders of those who wore it when living.

Gaily! gaily! close our ranks! Arm! Advance! Hope of France! Gaily! gaily! closed our ranks! Onward! Onward! Gauls and Franks!

Our friends, the enemy.

Producer and consumer are always one and the same person, merely considered from two different viewpoints.

By no means. I have just given you my serious and well-considered profession of faith. Although a firm friend of order, I am (in the full force of the term) an anarchist. Listen to me.

Such is the advantage of a well constructed language that its simplified notation often becomes the source of profound theories.

Honor women! They strew celestial roses on the pathway of our terrestrial life.

POSTNot a head stands out A finger rises Then it is the voice that one knows A signal a brief note A man leaves Up above a cloud that passes by No one goes in And the night keeps its secret

My best advice to writers is get yourself born in an interesting place.

eBay's business is based on enabling someone to do business with another person, and to do that, they first have to develop some measure of trust, either in the other person or the system.

When you only have a million dollar annual budget and a Super Bowl ad costs $4 million, you have to do something very creative to get onto the Super Bowl.

I will repeat a technique until it is mastered, no matter when that will be. One certainty though: it will be.

Watching myself fight, I realize the line between success and failure is so narrow, it's scary.

I'm always scared when I fight. But that fear is what keeps me more alert and more focused. It's good to have fear.

Once fear enters your life - it will take you in one of two directions: empowerment or panic.

I see the world as a knowledge hardware story, and every day I'm just walking through the aisles.

To fight a bigger guy you need to train with bigger guys and it takes a lot more on your body. And it's not your weight class.

I am very honored and excited to be part of UFC 100, it's going to be the hardest challenge of my career so far and it's going to be pretty tough, I can't wait.

Turning the corner is the most important, but first play the run.

Those who love to be feared, fear to be loved. Some fear them, but they fear everyone.

When you speak about generosity, about something good we have inside ourselves, you're speaking to the majority.

It's true that the question of Iraq divided Europe.

The Republic is open and tolerant but also knows how and when to be firm and make its values respected.

A country like France now does two-thirds of its trade within the euro zone.

It's extraordinary these obsessions. You conquer one but then you move onto another.

Everything that you paint may be used as evidence against you.

Only during the action is the idea of matter influenced.

On my own account I certainly wouldn't have become the director of a couture house. I didn't have sufficient admiration for fashion as such to have done so.

The shortest follies are the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.]

I assure you that the world is not so amusing as we imagined.

Guess if you can, choose if you dare.

As our self-interests differ, so do our feelings.

One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie

Grown ups don't believe in Santa Claus. They vote.

I think America and Britain have a different culture from France. They discovered marketing and consumerism before France.

It seems to me that it will be very wearisome to be a man.

There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world

If Bush wins, I'm going to leave the country and spend the rest of my life in France.

Onassis was a man who loved to walk, to walk and talk, and he was the kind of man who doesn't go to sleep at night-he talks and talks.

I am not very introspective.

I had been in so many towns and cities in America with John Kennedy, but I was not with him in Dallas, Texas, on November 21, 1963.