Jacques Poulin quote: "Je choisis des mots simples et concrets... J'essaie de faire des phrases courtes et j'évite les inversions autant que possible. Je ne mets pas un mot très bref à côté d'un mot de plusieurs syllables... Si un mot finit par une consonne, je lui trouve un compagnon qui commence par une voyelle. Et je lis mon texte à voix haute pour entendre comment ça sonne."

You don't ever heal your heart, you learn that your heart is the one that heals you, once you know t...
CHRISTIAN DONALD JOSEPH POULIN

Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning t...
JACQUES DERRIDA

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
JACQUES MARITAIN

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.
JACQUES MARITAIN

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.
JACQUES BARZUN

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a ...
JACQUES BARZUN

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
JACQUES BARZUN

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realiti...
JACQUES BARZUN

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends
JACQUES DELILLE

Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps...
JACQUES BARZUN

What's the point of havin' a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?
JEPH JACQUES

Even the strongest and bravest must sometimes weep. It shows they have a great heart, one that can f...
BRIAN JACQUES

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too lo...
JEPH JACQUES

Spontaneous kindness is to hipsters as high beams are to deer.
JEPH JACQUES

To know one's self, one must go all the way to horror.
JACQUES BOSSUET

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of natur...
JACQUES COUSTEAU

The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical...
JACQUES ELLUL

Just six years into the 21st century, one can say this is not shaping up to be anything like an Amer...
MARTIN JACQUES

Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.
JACQUES BARZUN

I was chef to the French Presidents between '56 and '59, finished with de Gaulle, and during...
JACQUES PEPIN

I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would b...
JACQUES DERRIDA

And now, the end is near,
And so I face the final curtain.
My friend, I'll say it clear, JACQUES REVAUX

When I left to go into apprenticeship in 1949, it was only four years after the war, and people don&...
JACQUES PEPIN

After being boxed in by man and his constructions in Europe and the East, the release into space is ...
JACQUES BARZUN

A little (one) can sometimes see things in others that us older ones cannot because our judgement ge...
BRIAN JACQUES

Eulaliiiaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BRIAN JACQUES

I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The story was so good that my teacher cou...
BRIAN JACQUES

The fact that the Bush administration, and those in Europe who have followed its 9/11-inspired agend...
MARTIN JACQUES

The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a singl...
JACQUES MARITAIN

Our world today is in need of peace, tolerance and brotherhood. The values of the Olympic Games can ...
JACQUES ROGGE

To the families of the victims and those close to them, I express my most heartfelt condolences,
JACQUES CHIRAC

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not...
JACQUES BARZUN

The U.S. might enjoy overwhelming military advantage, but its relative economic power, which in the ...
MARTIN JACQUES

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool...
JACQUES PREVERT

In the aftermath of 9/11 and in the build-up to the invasion of Iraq, few questioned the idea that t...
MARTIN JACQUES

I sometimes think it ironic for an ex-seaman, longshoreman, truck driver, policeman, bus driver, etc...
BRIAN JACQUES

It's the first time I've seen any of my work done like this,
BRIAN JACQUES

Ah, 'tis a good strong yarn, about the sea, and all the legends that surround it,
BRIAN JACQUES

Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious ins...
JACQUES LACAN

I enjoy walking my dog and completing crossword puzzles.
BRIAN JACQUES

For the word is dialectical in itself and at the same time is integrated into the whole of existence...
JACQUES ELLUL

It wouldn't be unthinkable that he would chase her out with a baseball bat,
JACQUES AUDIARD

I am putting an artist within the reach of wallets in all legality, and I am extending his fame.
JACQUES ATTALI

As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along ...
JACQUES LACAN

Our world today is in need of peace, tolerance and brotherhood. The values of the Olympic Games can ...
JACQUES ROGGE

The team is coming together now. We showed how far we have come against Lyon.
JACQUES SANTINI

Germany and France have the same judgement on this crisis,
JACQUES CHIRAC

France proposes mobilizing the European Investment Bank to double the capacity of research,
JACQUES CHIRAC

A geometry implies the heterogeneity of locus, namely that there is a locus of the Other. Regarding ...
JACQUES LACAN

Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt mys...
JACQUES CHARLES

I am that is, my sword shall wield for me.
BRIAN JACQUES

I heard and I understood your call so that the Republic lives, so that the nation rallies together, ...
JACQUES CHIRAC

Shake paws, count your claws,
You steal mine, I'll borrow yours.
Watch my whiskers, check ...
BRIAN JACQUES

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age
JACQUES BARZUN

The unanimous vote by the Security Council... offers Iraq a chance to disarm in peace. That was the ...
JACQUES CHIRAC

To find somebody guilty of doping you don't necessarily need urine and blood samples. It can also be...
JACQUES ROGGE

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences
JACQUES MARITAIN

This is a dispute that should never have happened. This is an irrational one. These pilots are the b...
JACQUES KAVAFIAN

There is small merit in mocking goodness, tweaking charity; it is much more comic to deprive people ...
JACQUES RIGAUT

I have asked the services in charge of the investigation to diligently determine the exact circumsta...
JACQUES CHIRAC

There is room for dialogue and negotiation,
JACQUES CHIRAC

Everything will be done ... with the Venezuelan authorities ... to shed light upon the reasons, circ...
JACQUES CHIRAC

The light of the writer and the dramatist who, by the power of the pen, armed solely with courage an...
JACQUES CHIRAC

I'm looking for a good cowboy.
JACQUES CHIRAC

These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophe...
JACQUES DERRIDA

The figures demonstrate that worldwide interest in the Olympic Winter Games is high.
JACQUES ROGGE

The indications from broadcasters are indeed positive and reinforce our commitment to making the Oly...
JACQUES ROGGE

I think the net is the tightest we can have. We are testing in and out of competition. We are testin...
JACQUES ROGGE

I declare the Games of the 28th Olympiad closed and, in accordance with tradition, I call upon the y...
JACQUES ROGGE

A certain amount of adjustment might be needed (to the IMF program) even if the main elements remain...
JACQUES SANTER

Is it normal for the commission to be disinterested in a problem? ... This is one of the reasons tha...
JACQUES CHIRAC

What is the typical spy? To start with, they think that they are on a mission to save the world. The...
JACQUES PAUW

In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is...
JACQUES LACAN

If we prove capable of showing a pioneering commitment, we shall create a commmunity listened to aro...
JACQUES CHIRAC

It's now up to the players to repay the good faith of the selectors and produce the results, even th...
JACQUES KALLIS

Boorab's spear was a window pole. He stood on the second step, barring their way. "Who goes there? ...
BRIAN JACQUES

My lady is fast but moody.
JACQUES VILLENEUVE

I hate it when politics play too large part in the sport.
JACQUES VILLENEUVE

In my experience (I am the lone father of an eight-year-old boy who lost his mother when he was one ...
MARTIN JACQUES

With my father and uncle so involved in racing, it was the only thing I ever knew, so I'm sure t...
JACQUES VILLENEUVE

Inside me there was everything I had believed was outside. There was, in particular, the sun, light,...
JACQUES LUSSEYRAN

Just as the Japanese pioneered a new form of manufacturing - lean production and quite new standards...
MARTIN JACQUES

The problem with a purely collective system is not only that it requires economic growth, and the ri...
JACQUES DELORS

I love what I do. People depend on me for their livelihoods. But I'm not married to the business. I ...
RAY JACQUES

Since the election of Shinzo Abe as the new Japanese prime minister, by reputation a fervent nationa...
MARTIN JACQUES

China's Internet will continue to be policed and controlled, information filtered, sites prohibi...
MARTIN JACQUES

She was dressed in Indian muslin, and beneath it she only wore a chemise of fine cambric, and by the...
JACQUES CASANOVA

In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to sk...
JACQUES BARZUN

The pitch did a bit this morning, and we lost a few wickets. But Shaun played magnificently and show...
JACQUES KALLIS

It depends on what this guy (Mason) is going to do. You lose your top goalie, not a good thing befor...
JACQUES LEMAIRE

Imagination is a very precise thing, you know-it is not fantasy; the man who invented the wheel whil...
JACQUES LIPCHITZ

We had our chances. We could have won. But one mistake in overtime won it for them.
JACQUES LEMAIRE

Today, we saw President Bush and the Republican leadership attempt to divide America and it backfire...
CHERYL JACQUES

Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment wh...
JACQUES DERRIDA

It is necessary to hasten a return to calm,
JACQUES CHIRAC

Greece has two months in which to inform the commission of the measures it intends to take to comply...
JACQUES BARROT

My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name...
JACQUES DERRIDA

The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irrespo...
JACQUES DELORS

Koizumi was not rooted in Japan's rightwing nationalist tradition: he was a pragmatist and a pop...
MARTIN JACQUES

In 1975, the Americans suffered a spectacular military defeat at the hands of North Vietnam and the ...
MARTIN JACQUES

Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the...
JACQUES DELORS

Fortunately the City is vigilant. It too has its secret weapons. Since the summer it has released sa...
JACQUES YONNET

Trevor is so good defensively and we like the decisions he's making back there. It's still an experi...
JACQUES BEAULIEU

Europe will have the most effective air traffic control infrastructure in the world,
JACQUES BARROT

Swiss Re has benefited from its well-diversified business to absorb an unparalleled sequence of exce...
JACQUES AIGRAIN

I think our seniors realized we haven't lost a game here in four years, and they didn't want to be t...
JACQUES CURTIS

The sugaring business is the first agricultural crop of the season, an excuse to get out after being...
JACQUES COUTURE

When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no righ...
JACQUES COUSTEAU

I want people to know that there are alternatives... Not just to the look of the car but the fuel th...
JACQUES CHIRON

Preval has quite a bit of popularity in the West and it is the first department that we processed, a...
JACQUES BERNARD

By Friday night or Saturday noon, we will have a clear idea of the results of the election.
JACQUES BERNARD

We wanted to win this competition because we are huge soccer fans and because we knew that there are...
JACQUES HERZOG

Our goal here was to give equal importance to visitors, nature and art,
JACQUES HERZOG

The history of society, like the lives of men, is subject to ups and downs rendered easier to bear b...
JACQUES GIVET

They tend to become more cost conscious in periods of shrinking dollars.
JACQUES GANSLER

The question is, what do we do? Do we let things continue or do we change?
JACQUES DIOUF

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist.
JACQUES LIPCHITZ

I am the most curious of all to see what will be the next thing that I will do.
JACQUES LIPCHITZ

They win a lot of games with their power play. They score at the right time. They have shooters on t...
JACQUES LEMAIRE

We made some little mistakes that we shouldn't have made.
JACQUES LEMAIRE

She has talent, nobody doubts that. The Giro was her last long phase before the worlds. She was usin...
JACQUES LANDRY

I am pretty confident I will be 100 per cent fit. I don't know if it's an injury that you can go in ...
JACQUES KALLIS

They are a proud nation that I still feel are the number one side in the world, they know the condit...
JACQUES KALLIS

Our listeners know us through the radio, so we had to communicate with them in an audio format.
JACQUES POITRAS

I'm very, very proud of Bertrand. It was his idea, his preparation, his dream. I could only encourag...
JACQUES PICCARD

I've never met a vulture I didn't like, and they're interesting birds.
JACQUES NUZZO

It's two points closer to a playoff spot. And it's gaining some credibility and confidence.
JACQUES MARTIN

We're taking too many penalties and they're penalties we deserved. We have to learn what we can a...
JACQUES MARTIN

We felt it here; it was strong.
JACQUES TREMBLEY

We have the feeling that a wide gap has been opened up between us and you during this first round,
JACQUES SANTINI

This match will help me as a reference for the future, ... To play a match of this caliber, the fact...
JACQUES SANTINI

no indication of fraudulent behavior, corruption or personal enrichment on the part of the commissio...
JACQUES SANTER

That's going to keep them high through the spring.
JACQUES ROUSSEAU

This study shows that just reducing total fat intake does not go far enough to have an impact on hea...
JACQUES ROSSOUW

We set out to test a promising but unproven hypothesis that has proven to be less promising than we ...
JACQUES ROSSOUW

The bricoleur, says Levi-Strauss, is someone who uses 'the means at hand,' that is, the instr...
JACQUES DERRIDA

He was in conflict with himself. There was no enjoyment in the thought that he had escaped a great d...
NORBERT JACQUES

I am not able of hating. I am not able of hating.
JACQUES VERGES

I dream of a collaboration that would finally be total, in which the librettist would often think as...
JACQUES IBERT

France will insist on the need for updated and responsive institutions.
JACQUES CHIRAC

When someone is punched in the face, you find out what they are made of.
JACQUES AUDIARD

I would rather have racing without computers. The human side is forgotten, and instead of talking ov...
JACQUES VILLENEUVE

The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs ...
JACQUES BARZUN

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.
JACQUES DERRIDA

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
JACQUES BARZUN

Bachelor's degrees make pretty good placemats if you get 'em laminated.
JEPH JACQUES

Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
JACQUES DELILLE

Teaching is not a lost art, but regard for teaching is a lost tradition.
JACQUES BARZUN

But psychoanalysis has taught that the deada dead parent, for examplecan be more alive for us, m...
JACQUES DERRIDA

We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what...
JACQUES COUSTEAU

It is not an accident that developing countries - virtually the whole of East Asia, for example - vi...
MARTIN JACQUES

Ever since Pele's extraordinary talents blessed the world of football, black footballers have be...
MARTIN JACQUES

I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap.
JACQUES DERRIDA

It is good for society to have this introspection.
JACQUES VERGES

For everyday, we like Beaujolais, Grenache or Syrah, and we like a lot of it! It's a family trad...
JACQUES PEPIN

I say: If you don't know how to cook, I'm sure you have at least one friend who knows how to...
JACQUES PEPIN

Most people who came here came for economic reasons or sometimes for religious or political reasons....
JACQUES PEPIN

All the great chefs I know - Thomas Keller, Jean-Georges Vongerichten - they are technicians first.
JACQUES PEPIN

Western countries are thoroughly accustomed to being the centre of global attention, which they have...
MARTIN JACQUES

When you are at home, even if the chicken is a little burnt, what's the big deal? Relax.
JACQUES PEPIN

The fact that television and tourism have made the whole world accessible has created the illusion t...
MARTIN JACQUES

In its heyday, the car was an expression of technical flair and design genius: the original Mini, th...
MARTIN JACQUES

If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but com...
JACQUES DERRIDA

I am inclined to believe that this is the land God gave to Cain.
JACQUES CARTIER

Experience is the cane of the blind.
JACQUES ROUMAIN

You cannot eat a cluster of grapes at once, but it is very easy if you eat them one by one.
JACQUES ROUMAIN

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their q...
JACQUES MARITAIN

There has always been something less than wholesome about New Labour. But Blair for a long time had ...
MARTIN JACQUES

Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, thing...
JACQUES LIPCHITZ

Aha! Today I shall become an author! And I will auth and auth and auth and make a squillion dollars,...
BRIAN JACQUES

Friar Hugo, old friend, brace yourself. I am the bearer of tragic news!"

Alarm spread acr...
BRIAN JACQUES

In my experience, there are plenty of bad middle-class parents: those who put their own lives and ca...
MARTIN JACQUES

I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.
JACQUES DERRIDA

I still pinch meself when I wake up of a morning, ... Who ever thought I'd be a children's author --...
BRIAN JACQUES

National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear mis...
JACQUES CHIRAC

We should not bring into question one of 'the pillars of the temple,'
JACQUES CHIRAC

Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti
JACQUES BARZUN

The two ethnic groups that remain fundamentally different from the Han Chinese - in terms of history...
MARTIN JACQUES

An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as h...
JACQUES BARZUN

Stan never liked the Bruins.
RAY JACQUES

The result of this union would be, not the fortuitous result of a series of approximations and conce...
JACQUES IBERT

These statements, presented as medical, are in fact texts devised by the patient, those close to him...
JACQUES CHIRAC

Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because t...
JACQUES MARITAIN

I know that the French people will understand that we had to act, ... Before the unjustified and inc...
JACQUES CHIRAC

It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.
JACQUES BARZUN

I would like to remind all French men and French women to gather together to defend human rights, to...
JACQUES CHIRAC

Today, we saw President Bush and the Republican leadership attempt to divide America and it backfire...
CHERYL JACQUES

My presidential victory, if it had happened, would have been artificial in relation to the Socialist...
JACQUES DELORS

In a democratic country, when a man is accused, he's accused from a document issued by the publi...
JACQUES VERGES

Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological s...
JACQUES ELLUL

The starting point for understanding the deterioration in the relationship between the U.S. and Russ...
MARTIN JACQUES

The narration, in fact, doubles the drama with a commentary without which no mise en scene would be ...
JACQUES LACAN

I come from a tradition of screenwriting -- with a co-writer -- where everything is challenged, wher...
JACQUES AUDIARD

He was more interested in having a discussion on Proust than on Welles,
JACQUES AUDIARD

It is a modest budget. We wish to start with a small amount.
JACQUES ATTALI

The Christian should participate in social and political efforts in order to have an influence in th...
JACQUES ELLUL

Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation God is always present, always available. At...
JACQUES ELLUL

When Europe dominated, there were no or few feedback loops. Or, to put it another way, there were fe...
MARTIN JACQUES

Both Indy Car and Formula 1 work in the same way, although there is a greater emphasis on developmen...
JACQUES VILLENEUVE

Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inacc...
JACQUES DERRIDA

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