Luc Quotes

There does not exist a man sufficiently intelligent never to be tiresome. — Luc De Clapiers

I was born in Paris, and I haven't moved, except until now - I live in the suburbs and I hate it. — Luc Ferrari

There is the refusal of style and the refusal of sentimentalism, there is this desire for clarity ... — Luc Delahaye

But his eyes say what he can't. I see it, clear as day, even if she doesn't. He'd give up his wings for her. All she'd have to do is ask. — Lisa Desrochers

A man can hardly be said to have made a fortune if he does not know how to enjoy it. — Luc De Clapiers

He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything. — Luc De Clapiers

Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice. — Luc De Clapiers

The mind is the soul's eye, not its source of power. That lies in the heart, in other words, in the passions. — Luc De Clapiers

Despair exaggerates not only our misery but also our weakness. — Luc De Clapiers

We are not greatly pleased that our friends should respect our good qualities if they venture to perceive our faults. — Luc De Clapiers

The light of the dawn is not so sweet as the first glimpses of fame. — Luc De Clapiers

The thought of death deceives us; for it causes us to neglect to live. — Luc De Clapiers

If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself, I shall reply; I have been wrong once or more often, however I do not aspire to be always wrong. — Luc De Clapiers

The idle always have a mind to do something. — Luc De Clapiers

Great thoughts come from the heart — Luc De Clapiers De Vauvenargues

Nothing endures except truth. — Luc De Clapiers

Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned. — Luc De Clapiers

Cinema never saved anyone's life, it is not a medicine that will save anyone's life. It is only an aspirin. — Luc Besson

More are taken in by love than by cunning. — Luc De Clapiers De Vauvenargues

I think we have the wrong notion of commercial and intellectual or artistic film. Because all films are commercial. — Luc Besson

When you go to the cinema you look up, when you watch television you look down. — Jean-Luc Godard

Those who fear men like laws. — Luc De Clapiers

We must not be timid from a fear of committing faults: the greatest fault of all is to deprive oneself of experience. — Luc De Clapiers

Hatred and dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived. — Luc De Clapiers

To be or not to be. That's not really a question. — Jean-Luc Godard

Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers. — Luc De Clapiers

I always give money to a sidewalk con if the story is a good one, even if I don't believe a word of it. Art deserves to get paid. — Luc Sante

Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it. — Luc De Clapiers

Patience is the art of hoping. — Luc De Clapiers

I realised that although I was fascinated with America, its history and culture, I was not interested in becoming
American. — Luc Sante

All that is unfair, offends us if it's not beneficial for us — Luc De Clapiers

Activity makes more men's fortunes than cautiousness. — Luc De Clapiers

Consciousness of our strength increases it. — Luc De Clapiers

Europe has memories, America has t-shirts. — Jean-Luc Godard

Luc let out a strangled, hoarse laugh. Oh shit. ET so phoned home, kids. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Being an artist is nothing, or at least, not enough; what you want is to be a poet. — Luc Delahaye

I like to go out if there's a party or go to the movies, but I just like hanging out with my buddies and having a good time. — Jean-Luc Bilodeau

The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little. — Luc De Clapiers

Courage is adversity's lamp. — Luc De Clapiers

The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat. — Luc De Clapiers

No one is more liable to make mistakes than the man who acts only on reflection. — Luc De Clapiers

Glory fills the world with virtue, and, like a beneficent sun, covers the whole earth with flowers and with fruits. — Luc De Clapiers

American pictures usually have no subject, only a story. A pretty woman is not a subject. Julia Roberts doing this and that is not a subject. — Jean-Luc Godard

I never think about franchises, to be honest. I always just do the film. — Luc Besson

Since most of the transmission is sexual transmission, you have a regional or local response to the virus. — Luc Montagnier

Commerce is the school of cheating. — Luc De Clapiers

When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive. — Luc Tuymans

A critic is a soldier that fires on his own men. — Jean-Luc Godard

Necessity moderates more troubles than reason. — Luc De Clapiers

If virtue were its own reward, it would no longer be a human quality, but supernatural. — Luc De Clapiers

Why must one talk? Often one shouldn't talk, but live in silence. The more one talks, the less the words mean. (Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie) — Jean-Luc Godard

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world. — Jean-Luc Godard

We discover in ourselves what others hide from us and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves ... — Luc De Clapiers

Luc blinked innocently. That little fuck. I gave you a piece of opal and a Luxen to nom-nom on. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

There is no point in having sharp images when you've fuzzy ideas. — Jean-Luc Godard

Every edit is a lie. — Jean-Luc Godard

You must maintain strength of body in order to preserve strength of mind. — Luc De Clapiers

You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character. — Luc De Clapiers

Despair is the greatest of our errors. — Luc De Clapiers

It is good to be firm by temperament and pliant by reflection. — Luc De Clapiers

Few men have depth enough to hear or tell the truth. — Luc De Clapiers

A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order. — Jean-Luc Godard

Persevere in the fight, struggle on, do not let go, think magnanimously of man and life, for man is good and life is affluent and fruitful. — Luc De Clapiers

My bond with Luc and Anders is holy," I said. "It's just, y'know, holy in a gay threesome sort of way. — Nathan Burgoine

It is unjust to exact that men shall do out of deference to our advice what they have no desire to do for themselves. — Luc De Clapiers

Constancy is the chimera of love. — Luc De Clapiers

I've always wanted, basically, to do research in the form of a spectacle. — Jean-Luc Godard

Good films get smaller audiences, but more of the viewer. — Jean-Luc Godard

What is your greatest ambition in life?'
'To become immortal ... and then die. — Jean-Luc Godard

There is no such thing as intellectual property. — Jean-Luc Godard

Men are not to be judged by what they do not know, but by what they know, and by the manner in which they know it. — Luc De Clapiers

Everyone is born sincere and dies deceivers. — Luc De Clapiers

It is of no use to possess a lively wit if it is not of the right proportion: the perfection of a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate. — Luc De Clapiers

Lazy people always intend to start doing something. — Luc De Clapiers

Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies. — Luc De Clapiers

All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl. — Jean-Luc Godard

Despair puts the last touch not only to our misery but also to our weakness. — Luc De Clapiers

The earl looked down at him. "Will he die, Gavin?" "You..." The barest whisper. "...wish."

-Cam & Luc — Katharine Ashe

When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance. — Luc De Clapiers

Yes," Bernarde quipped, "Deal with me, Jean Luc. Come and dance with the night, brother. Let us battle 'till the sun turns us to ash. — Katerina Martinez

Luc Robitaille is a great kid and good player, but ask anybody on the street and they'd probably think Luc Robitaille is a type of salad dressing. — Bruce McNall

Patricia: Do you know William Faulkner?
Michel: No. Who's he? Have you slept with him? — Jean-Luc Godard

Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb ... and repressive. — Luc Ferrari

There are no more simple images ... The world is too much for an image. You need several of them, a chain of images ... — Jean-Luc Godard

My father's really fluent in French, but I can't speak at all. I actually took it twice in school already and failed both times! — Jean-Luc Bilodeau

when companies are not transparent, communities fear that such secrecy covers insincerity, dishonesty, and trickiness. Transparency — Luc Zandvliet

We don't have enough time to premeditate our actions. — Luc De Clapiers

There are men who are happy without knowing it. — Luc De Clapiers

I don't have a visa for the U.S., and I don't want to apply for one. And I don't want to fly for that long. — Jean-Luc Godard

All grand thoughts come from the heart. — Luc De Clapiers

Magnanimity will not consider the prudence of its motives. — Luc De Clapiers

Her voice was like a line from an old black-and-white Jean-Luc Godard movie, filtering in just beyond the frame of my consciousness. — Haruki Murakami

I try to make the best of everything. — Jean-Luc Bilodeau

Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure. — Luc De Clapiers

Humane people don't start revolutions, they start libraries. And cemeteries. — Jean-Luc Godard

Simple truths are a relief from grand speculations. — Luc De Clapiers

I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s. — Luc Ferrari

I make film to make time pass. — Jean-Luc Godard

My aesthetic is that of the sniper on the roof. — Jean-Luc Godard

What perhaps should receive more attention is the effect of the treatment on the virus. — Luc Montagnier