Edmond de Goncourt Quotes
Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

Quotes to Explore
-
We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
-
We have a very loyal fan base, the kind tat buys the record the day it comes out, sees every show, and that's fantastic, but what about the people who would never hear about our band?
-
I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
-
I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
-
My dinner spot is usually in front of the TV. I'll grill a steak and whip up a salad and watch 'Hoarders'. I love it because a) I'm kind of voyeuristic, and b) every time I see an episode, I go to the one room where all my unpacked boxes wound up, and I throw out a box of stuff.
-
For ages, I had this mullet until someone on the street stopped me and said, 'Darling, can I cut your hair for free? Because you look a bit weird.'
-
I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.
-
I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
-
In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year.
-
Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
-
To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
-
I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
-
It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
-
For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
-
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
-
This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
-
I opened about a dozen employment centers for Arab women across Israel during my two years as minister of economy.
-
I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.
-
I suppose I am a frustrated musician so I annoy my family by playing guitar in the house. I used to be into acoustic stuff but my son Joseph is learning drums, so now I have an electric guitar and we play Metallica. We have an amp and a PA in the garage with his drum kit.
-
For me, and I suspect a lot of socially awkward people, dealing with people face-to-face seems really traumatic. Particularly if you have massive sweating issues, and particularly if on top of that you have quite smelly sweat that smells like onion soup.
-
We don't live in vacuums; we do care about the world, and we do want to believe our country is doing the right thing on our behalf.
-
When you change something like your hair, the whole world changes also.
-
I have always wanted to do a feature film that brings the world of Lisa Frank to life. We have so much backstory on our characters, and they have been alive in my imagination since the beginning.
-
Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.