Top 1200 Les Miserable Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Une histoire d'amour dont les épisodes ont été mélangés par un fou

Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure Les jours s'en vont je demeure

'Bloodless' reminded me a bit of 'Les Miserables' when it first came out.

I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don't want to be your umpteenth Fantine in 'Les Miz.'

La mort n'est que pour les me diocres. Death is only for the mediocre.

I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom.

The only shows I saw as a kid were that holy trinity: 'Les Miz,' 'Cats,' 'Phantom.'

"Le génie n'est qu'une longue patience", a dit Buffon. Cela est bien incomplet. Le génie, c'est l'impatience dans les idées et la patience dans les faits : une imagination vive et un jugement calme; quelque chose comme un liquide en ébullition dans un vase qui reste toujours froid. "Genius is just enduring patience," said Buffon. This is far from complete. Genius is impatience in ideas and patience with the facts: a lively imagination and a calm judgment, rather like a liquid boiling in a cup that remains cold.

The envious will die, but envy never. [Fr., Les envieux mourront, mais non jamais l'envie.]

When I was little, I saw the play 'Les Miserables' on Broadway, I thought it was the most amazing thing I have ever seen.

I damaged my health during 'Les Mis,' which I didn't want to mention in case it seemed like I was courting sympathy.

People have to work to maintain happiness. It's easy to be miserable. It's easy to stay miserable. It's easy to live in a place where nothing's working and not being able to work your way out of it. It's much harder to choose happiness, to choose laughter, to choose a positive.

If I did not publish this autobiography [Les Mots] sooner and in its most radical form, it is because I considered it exaggerated.

I have a lot of guitars. Yeah, I'm not like a guitar collector, I don't have all vintage instruments. I don't even own a Strat or Les Paul. I don't have one.

The risk that people pose to wolfdogs is far greater, statistically, than the risk that wolfdogs pose to people. Many are bred in miserable, inhumane conditions, and kept in equally miserable, inhumane conditions.

I remember seeing 'Les Miserables' with the original cast - this was in '87 - and I was blown away by it.

So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.

I didn't know I could sing until I auditioned for 'Les Miserables.' My friend was auditioning, and I wanted to audition too.

The concept of absolute, hence (or whence) springs, in the moral field, the moral laws or norms, represent, in the field of knowledge, the principle of identity, which is the fundamental law of the thought; norms of logic springs from it, that govern the thought (or mind) in the field of science." ("Le concept de l'absolu, d'où découlent, dans le domaine moral, les lois ou normes morales, constitue, le principe d'identité, qui est la loi fondamentale de la pensée; il en découle les normes logiques qui régissent la pensée dans le domaine de la science.")

I have loved 'Les Miz' for so long. It was the first Broadway show I'd ever done.

If my life hadn't itself been a modern adaptation of 'Les Atrides,' I probably would never have left the theatre.

I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere.

I think Les Moonves is the most highly overrated person in television.

The sign said "eight items or less". So I changed my name to Les.

Are any of yall into girls like I am les-bi-anest

My dad loved Les Paul, and I wanted to be just like that.

Do not limp before the lame. [Old Fr., Ne clochez pas devant les boyteus.]

There have been lots of attempts to make a movie of 'Les Miserables' over the years.

I love' Les Mis,' and I owe it a lot, because I wouldn't have been born without it.

Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.

The happiest times in my life were the days when I was traveling with Les Brown and his band.

It's fantastic to see 'Les Miserables' become the top-grossing film at the U.K. box office.

I have tons of Telecasters but also about 50 Les Pauls, six or seven SGs, and a bunch of Gretsches.

Not everybody loves their children. If that was a fact, all the children would be happy and they would make happy adults. Instead, we have lots of miserable children that later became miserable adults. This is a fact. We cannot change that.

France has neither winter, nor summer, nor morals. France is miserable because it is filled with Frenchmen, and Frenchmen are miserable because they live in France.

I sit down to the piano regularly at nine-o'clock in the morning and Mesdames les Muses have learned to be on time for that rendezvous.

Que pour les malheureux l'heure lentement fuit! How slowly the hours pass to the unhappy.

I try to improvise like Les Young, Louis Armstrong or someone else I admire. What comes out is what I feel.

Segui il tuo corso et lascia dir les genti. (Follow your road and let the people say).

Lots of people are astounded that I was in the first cast of 'Les Miserables.' Possibly because I look so incredibly youthful.

By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them. [Fr., A raconter ses maux souvent on les soulage.]

In college, I was a huge fan of 'Les Miserables.' I seem to remember that people who were into French literature preferred Hugo's poetry.

The best slide guitar, unless you're playing the Muddy Waters-style, is the old '52 Goldtop Les Paul.

I only used my whole life one perfume, and it's Cartier's Les Must.

I auditioned for the part of Cosette in 'Les Miserables' on Broadway. It didn't work out.

I sing; I started my career at 9 years old in 'Les Miserables' on Broadway.

I can't look at John Prescott without thinking of Les Dawson, and Robin Cook is a caricature of himself.

In Les Mots I explain the origin of my madness, of my neurosis. This analysis may help the young who dream of writing.

Les Misérables etches Hugo's view of the world so deeply in the mind that it is impossible to be the same person after reading it.

My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe.

When I was a 7-year-old girl, in my bedroom, on my karaoke machine, I would sing 'On My Own' or do a one-woman version of 'Les Miserables.'

My mum bought discounted tickets for shows like 'Cats' and 'Les Miserables'; I became completely enamoured.

I think 'Les Demoiselles D'Avignon' is one of the most transfixing paintings of all time. And it was made by a monster of a man.

My act now is completely different. I took two years off when I first got with my wife and it was because my old act was all about "Where's the party after this?" I was humping the stool and it's all so disgusting and I was miserable, miserable in a lifeless angry marriage. Then I met my wife and I was completely happy. Like a snake that sheds its skin. I just got rid of all of that negativity.

Le mensonge et les vers de tout temps sont amis. Lies and literature have always been friends.

I would have taught her a les­son she wouldn't forget!

When I was doing 'Les Mis,' someone sent me a collection of pencil rubbers.

Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion. [Fr., C'est un betail servile et sot a mon avis Que les imitateurs.]

Strangers are contemporary posterity. [Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.]

One journalist said that everybody in Russia is miserable. Russia is a terrible place. And I'm going to end up miserable and I'm going to be a drunk and I'm never going to do anything. I don't drink. I've never been drunk in my life. And they talk about Russia like it's the worst place on earth. Russia's great.