Top 296 Les Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

To reform society, and with it humanity, there is only one mean; to transform the mentality of men, to direct them ("les orienter", Fr.) in a new spirit.

I've dreamt of being in a movie musical for a long time. For some reason I never even thought 'Les Mis' would be possible.

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.

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

A fool is one whom simpletons believe to be a man on merit. [Fr., Un fat celui que les sots croient un homme de merite.]

There are good '59 Les Pauls, and there are not-so-good ones. There are ones that are just OK, that don't sustain as well.

I went to Paris when I was 17 and would sit in a cafe called Les Deux Magots, in the Latin Quarter. I spoke English, but not a word of French.

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

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.

Ne cherchez plus mon coeur; les be" tes l'ont mange . Don't search any further for my heart; wild beasts ate it.

The world is satisfied with words. Few appreciate the things beneath. [Fr., Le monde se paye de paroles; peu approfondissement les choses.]

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

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

Nos beaux sentiments ne sont-ils pas les poe sies de la volonte ? Aren't our best feelings poetry of the will?

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

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

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

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

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.'

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

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

Lots of people can have girlfriends. But I can throw around guitars onstage! That'll be my epitaph: 'He never had a girlfriend, but you should've seen him smash a Les Paul!'

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

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

Les te moins sont fort chers, et n'en a pas qui veut. Witnesses are expensive and not everyone can afford them.

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

But in this world nothing is sure but death and taxes. [Fr., Mais dons ce monde, il n'y a rien d'assure que le mort et les impots.]

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

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.

My first guitar was a Les Paul that I bought off a friend for 500 bucks. I worked a long time to save up enough money for it.

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 waited for a long time for a call-up for Les Bleus, but that call never came.

Silent people are dangerous; others are not so. [Fr., Les gens sans bruit sont dangereux; Il n'en est pas ainsi des autres.]

...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables

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

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

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

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

Je sais de quelles petitesses meurent les plus grandes amours. I know how pettiness ruins the greatest loves.

I consider Les Nourritures Terrestres as a frightening book: "Look for God in no other place than everywhere." Go and tell that to a workman, an engineer!

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

My favorite is still the one that I started off with, which is a Les Paul Standard. I've played that at every gig I've ever had. And that's my starting point in the studio.

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.

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

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

With my family as my audience, I used to sing, dance, and reenact every scene from 'Grease,' 'Newsies' and 'Les Miserables' as many times as they would let me.

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

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

Deviner avant de démontrer! Ai-je besoin de rappeler que c'est ainsi que se sont faites toutes les découvertes importantes.

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

Hal Prince and Andrew actually asked me if I would be interested in continuing with 'Phantom', but obviously I was under contract to 'Les Mis' by then.