#or

All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words. ↗

— Bernard Pivot

#difficulties #english #gender #speakers #words

The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture. ↗

— Bernard Pivot

#country #culture #english #find #french

You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world, more highly civilised too, with rules. ↗

— Bernard Pivot

#cultivated #entry #feel #feeling #french

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter. ↗

— Max Planck

#behind #conscious #existence #exists #force

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out. ↗

— Max Planck

#die #does #gradually #happen #important

I know that bands that haven't put out a record for 10 years are playing to 20,000 people a night. But that's not the achievement. ↗

— Robert Plant

#bands #haven #i #know #night

It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness. ↗

— Robert Plant

#another #duration #effect #feeling #goodness

But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#flare #interest #life #long #long run

I realized what Led Zeppelin was about around the end of our first U.S. tour. We started off not even on the bill in Denver, and by the time we got to New York we were second to Iron Butterfly, and they didn't want to go on! ↗

— Robert Plant

#around #bill #butterfly #by the time #denver

All over the world, the idea of creating an melange of international musics, it's a very healthy thing. ↗

— Robert Plant

#healthy #healthy thing #idea #international #musics