Saturday, April 26, 2008

12th list of 10 French songs I like a lot

12th list of 10 French songs I like a lot:

1.Boulevard de l'Ocean-Gerard Lenorman
2.Amoureuse-Veronique Sanson
3.Tout va changer(Ce soir)-Michel Fugain
4.Parle plus bas(1972)-Raymond Berthiaume
5.En Courant(1976)-Nicole Rieu
6.C'est Beau La Vie-Jean Ferrat
7.Butterfly(1971)-Danyel Gerard
8.Elle est d'ailleurs-Pierre Bachelet
9.La Montagne-Jean Ferrat
10.Une Nuit Sur Son Epaule-Veronique Sanson

Friday, April 25, 2008

11th List of 10 French songs you love

11th list of 10 French songs you love:

1.C'est pas si mal-Michel Sardou
2.Je ne peux pas t' oublier-Dick Rivers(This song is a French version of the 1963 Andy Williams
hit song 'Can't Get Used to Losing You.')
3.Les Copains(1967)-Les Alexandrins (featuring Luc Cousineau)
4.Telephone-moi(1976)-Nicole Croisille
5.On ne Voit pas Le Temps passer-Jean Ferrat
6.Le Sud-Nino Ferrer
7.La premiere nuit d'amour-Nicole Martin
8.Ce serait Dommage-Nicole Martin
9.Ce Monde-Richard Anthony
10.Seulement Qu' une aventure-Gerry Boulet

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Eight great quotes and proverbs

1.Peace makes plenty.-English proverb
2.No artist is ahead of his time.He is his time,it is just that others are behind the times.-Martha Graham(1894-1991),U.S choreographer and dancer
3.If a dog jumps in your lap,it is because he is fond of you,but if a cat does the same thing,it is because your lap is warmer.-Alfred North Whitehead
4.Whoever performs only his duty is not doing his duty.-Bahya ibn Pakuda
5.When you have to kill a man,it costs nothing to be polite.-Winston Churchill
6.Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young,the habituation of the middle-aged,and the mutual dependence of the old.-John Ciardi
7.There is no news in fear
but in the end it's fear that drowns you.-Anne Sexton,''IMITATIONS OF DROWNING.''
8.What's done to children,they will do to society.-Karl Menninger

Sunday, April 20, 2008

Great letter to the editor in the MONTREAL GAZETTE by Bill Parker

Three Loopholes a day.
Re:''Not enough convictions''(Letters,April 14).
Natalie Turko-Norton would like to know why less than 1 per cent of animal abusers end up in jail.Simple,it's because the other 99 per of perpetrators get off using those legal loopholes called breakfast,lunch and dinner.
-Bill Parker,Val des Lacs,Letter to Editor,
MONTREAL GAZETTE,APRIL 18,2008.

Saturday, April 19, 2008

10th list of 10 French songs you love

10th list of 10 French songs you like:

1.Si Tu Te Souviens-Alain Barriere
2.Ma Vie,C'est Toi-Chantal Pary
3.Toujours Vivant-Gerry Boulet
4.Un ete(1964)-Alain Barriere
5.Pour la derniere fois-Alain Barriere
6.Un Beau Grand Bateau-Gerry Boulet
7.C'etait les premiers jours d'Avril-Alain Barriere
8.Lorsque j'ai pris ses levres-Alain Barriere
9.Pour une derriere fois-Gerry Boulet
10.Pourquoi pourquoi-Michel Pagliaro

Chantal Pary song you like

You loke the Chantal Pary song 'Ma vie,c'est toi'a lot.

9th list of 10 French songs that you like a lot

9th list of 10 French songs you like a lot.

1.Tu ne peux pas te figurer-Nicole Martin
2.Parlez-moi de lui-Nicole Croisille
3.Ma vie,c'est toi-Nicole Martin
4.Caliente-Kevin Parent
5.This Melody-Julien Clerc
6.Samba mambo-France Gall
7.Des que le printemps revient(1964)-Hugues Aufray
8.On Laisse Tous Un Jour-Michel Fugain
9.Le Ciel,Le Soleil et La Mer-Francois Deguelt
10.Hasta Luego-Hugues Aufray

Friday, April 18, 2008

Three great quotes for Friday

1.If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough,they will make you a member of it.-Art Buchwald
2.If you treat an individual as if he were what he ought to be and could be,he will become what he ought to be and could be.-Goethe
3.If you can look back on your life with contentment,you have one of man's most precious gifts-a selective memory.-Jim Fiebig,author quoted in THE GUARDIAN

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Four great quotes

1.The head never rules the heart,but just becomes its partner in crime.-Mignon McLaughlin
2.A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances,but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.-Hugh Downs
3.When Love's delirium haunts the glowing mind,
Limping decorum lingers far behind.-George Gordon Noel Byron,''Answer to some Elegant verses sent by a friend.''
4.It is a mistake to believe that a science consists in nothing but conclusively proved proportions,and it is unjust to demand that it should.It is a demand only made by those who feel a craving for authority in some form and a need to replace the religious catechism by something else,even if it be a scientific one.-Sigmund Freud

Sunday, April 13, 2008

Two nice proverbs

1.Those who wish to sing always find a song.-Swedish proverb
2.One minute of patience,ten years of peace.-Greek proverb

Three great quotes and proverbs

1.Experience is the child of Thought,and Thought is the child of Action.We cannot learn men from books.-Benjamin Disraeli
2.This new attitude towards effort and work as an aim in itself may be assumed to be the most
important psychological change which has happened to man since the end of the Middle Ages----the development of frantic activity and a striving to do something.-Erich Fromm
3.One nail drives out another.-German proverb

Friday, April 11, 2008

Six great quotes and proverbs

1.Folded eyes see brighter colors
than the open ever do.-Elizabeth Barrett Browning,''A Child Asleep.''
2.Efficiency is concerned with doing things right.Effectiveness is doing the right things.-Peter Drucker
3.In the march up to the heights of fame there comes a spot close to the summit in which man reads nothing but detective stories.-Heywood Broun
4.Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.-Pierre Corneille
5.The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his lofe by altering his attitudes of mind.-William James
6.If it were not for injustice,men would not know justice.-Seneca

Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Five great quotes or proverbs

1.Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.-Jean-Paul Richter
2.It's the action,not the fruit of the action,that's important.You have to do the right thing.It may not be in your power,may not be in your time,that there'll be any fruit.But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing.You may never know what results come from your action.But if you do nothing,there will be no result.-Mahatma Gandhi
3.Isn't it time that being rude and thick became unfashionable?-British author Duncan Fallowell,quoted in The Mail on Sunday
4.No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.-Jean Paul Richter
5.It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.-Seneca

Monday, April 07, 2008

Five good quotes or proverbs

1.Experience is not what happens to a man.It is what a man does with what happens to him.-Aldous Huxley
2.The best portion of a good man's life,His little ,nameless ,unremembered acts of kindness and love.-William Wordsworth
3.Perhaps I am stronger than I think.-Thomas Merton
4.Love cures people-both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.-Dr.Karl Menninger
5.You gain strength,experience and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face----You must do the thing you cannot do.-Eleanor Roosevelt

Sunday, April 06, 2008

Willie Nelson

The Francis Cabrel song 'Les Yeux Bleus Pleurant sous la pluie' is very good.It is a French rendition of the Willie Nelson song 'Blue Eyes Crying in The Rain'.

Eighth list of 10 French songs that you like a lot

8th list of 10 French songs that you like a lot.
1.L'Encre de Tes Yeux-Francis Cabrel
2.La declaration d'Amour-France Gall
3.Bonsoir John John-France Gall
4.Un Beau Grand Slow-Eric Lapointe
5.Homme Tout Petit-France Gall
6.Nous ne sommes pas des anges-France Gall
7.La Bartendresse-Eric Lapointe
8.Le Tour de la Terre-Renee Claude
9.Les Yeux Bleus Dansant Sous La PLuie-Francis Cabrel
10.C'est Ecrit-Francis Cabrel

Seventh list of 10 French songs you love

Seventh list of 10 French songs that you love
1.Kiss Me-C.Jerome
2.Himalaya(1973)-C.Jerome
3.La Foule-Edith Piaf
4.Un Enfant-Petula Clark
5.C'est La Vie-Patrick Bruel
6.Le Telephone Pleure-Claude Francois
7.Le Monde Est Stone-Fabienne Thibault
8.Terre Promise(Pousser par le vent)-Eric Lapointe
9.A tous ceux qui ont un coeur-Petula Clark
10.Frequenter l'oubli-Kevin Parent

Wednesday, April 02, 2008

Eight good quotes about books and reading

1.Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.-Stephen King
2.Book lovers never go to bed alone.-Unknown
3.In my experience,well-read people are less likely to be evil.-Lemony Snicket
4.Advice to young writers who want to get ahead without any annoying delays:don't write about Man,write about a man.-E.B.White
5.Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of one's own.-Schopenhauer
6.You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you've lost a friend.-Paul Sweeney
7.Some women have a weakness for shoes----I can go barefoot if necessary.I have a weakness for books.-Oprah Winfrey
8.You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.-C.S.Lewis

An octet of quotes and proverbs

1.Controversy equalizes fools and wise men-and the fools know it.-Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
2.Mentor each other unselfishly.-Don Galen
3.If the camel once gets his nose in a tent,the body will soon follow.-Saudi proverb
4.Everything can be taken from a man but one thing:The last of his freedoms---to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,to choose one's own way.-Victor E.Frankl,from MAN'S SEARCH FOR MEANING.
5.The past is to be respected and acknowledged,but not to be worshipped.It is our future in which we will find our greatness.-Pierre Trudeau
6.A vision without action is called a daydream;but then again,action without vision is called a nightmare.-Jim Sorensen
7.How anybody dresses is indicative of his self-concept.If students are dirty and ragged,it indicates they are not interested in tidying up their intellects either.-Semanticist and university president S.I.Hayakawa circa 1968-a time of student unrest.Wow,bummer
8.Books are packaged dreams.-Dean Koontz

Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Sixth list of 10 great French songs that you love

Sixth list of 10 great French songs that you love:
1.Aline-Christophe
2.Le Coeur est un Oiseau(Liberte)-France D'Amour
3.Ame Caline(1967)-Michel Polnareff
4.Love me Please,Love Me-Michel Polnareff
5.Les yeux d'un ange-Franck Fernandel
6.On ne choisit pas l'etoile(1965)-Franck Fernandel
7.Halliday-Michel Polnareff
8.Viens te Perdre Dans Mes Bras-Frederic Francois
9.Le Monde Est Gris-Eric Charden
10.Tous les Oiseaux,Tous les Bateaux(1967)-Michel Polnareff