Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eva Green

My father is a dentist. He has nothing to do with acting. He is proud of me. I come from a bourgeois family, like the family in The Dreamers.

Pol Pot

The only good bourgeois is a dead bourgeois.

Emily Harris

She was a bourgeois pig anyway. Her husband is a doctor,

Octavio Paz

Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.

Orhan Pamuk

'Snow' is my most popular book in the United States. But in Turkey, it was not as popular as 'My Name is Red,' or even 'The Museum of Innocence,' because the secular leaders didn't want this bourgeois Orhan trying to understand these head-scarf girls.

Charles Baudelaire

Il faut e pater le bourgeois. One must astound the bourgeois.

Dean Wareham

I have a slightly bourgeois upbringing, I guess. My parents paid for me to go to school, which is nice, but I haven't gotten a dime since then. I have no trust fund. I wish I did.

J. G. Ballard

The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented. It's a vast, sentimentalizing structure that reassures the reader, and at every point, offers the comfort of secure moral frameworks and recognizable characters.

Mimi Kennedy

Progressives make money and spend money on businesses that meet needs instead of kill people! The future is in meeting needs - unto the bourgeois business of cleaning the drapes! - not spewing death and destruction with kickbacks.

Alexandra Paul

I really haven't been cognitive of gas prices. It wasn't until I filled up my husband's Toyota Prius Hybrid that I had a moment of understanding of how people who drive gas cars feel.

Barbara Upton

One of my niece's husband worked on an oil rig, and I imagine that is the first thing that will get running again.

Julie Jameson

None of us walked into it blindly. Our husbands sat us down and told us what to expect.

John Gay

One wife is too much for most husbands to hear, / But two at a time there's no mortal can bear.

Marci Maynes

My first husband was uneducated and very poor. I can't get involved with another uneducated man.

Frances Chaney

My husband is a big joker and my son-in-law thought he had somehow dummied up a ticket.

Judith Bondus

My husband has worked here since 1983 though.

Hannah Prahl

My husband got a job in Marshall and we moved here.

Kathy Monaghan

My husband and I would love to see him do anything he wants to do.

Dabney Coleman

No not pigeon holed me as an actor, or as a character, or as to what I could do - but what I would do... and the fact is the things you don't do are almost as important as as the things that you do.

Jim Clarke

When they think of pigeons they think of something wild.

Abraham Lincoln

There are too many pigs for the teats

William Shakespeare

Here comes Monseiur Le Beau. Rosalind: With his mouth full of news. Celia: Which he will put on us, as pigeons feed their young. Rosalind: Then shall we be news-crammed. Celia: All the better; we shall be the more marketable.

Charles Dickens

If a pig could give his mind to anything, he would not be a pig.

Charles Dickens

Heaped on the floor were turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince-pies, plum-puddings, bartrels of oysters, re-hot chestnuts, cherry-cheeked apples, juicy oranges, luscious pears, immense twelfth-cakes, and seething bowls of punch that made the chamber dim with their delicious steam.

Camille Paglia

The airheads of Congress will keep their own plush healthcare plan - it's the rest of us guinea pigs who will be thrown to the wolves.

Dennis Kozlowski

I was piggy. But I'm not that person anymore.

Edward Felten

Given a choice between dancing pigs and security, users will pick dancing pigs every time.