Denis Diderot Quotes

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

Denis Diderot

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• It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to make a plan for how you are going to behave in 25 years seems based on a view of life that is incomprehensible to me.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Life
  • Me
  • View

• It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • People
  • Important
  • Money

• Here's how adaptation works - almost everything in the movie is in the book in some form. But it's as though the deck has been completely reshuffled and some of the cards have been assigned different values, some of the fours have been made into jacks, and some of the jacks have been made into twos.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Different
  • Book
  • Movie

• A lasting architecture has to have roots.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Architecture
  • Roots
  • Lasting

• I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Doing
  • Figure
  • Documentary

• I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Think
  • Politics

• Anyone who is awake and aware knows that these quote-unquote bathroom bills or any legislation discriminating against LGBTQ citizens is horrible.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Horrible
  • Awake
  • Bathroom

• Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Work
  • Beautiful
  • Something

• You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.

  

  Kaitlin Olson
  • World
  • Parents
  • Best

• Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower, or because God our Lord, seeing that it would be good for them, allows them to melt into tears. But this does not mean that they have greater charity or that they are more effective than others who enjoy no tears.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Good
  • God
  • Soul

• Our intent is to operate Time Warner as it operates today, with autonomy in its divisions, including the world-class creative talent and journalists that make Time Warner a leader in entertainment and news.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • Time
  • World
  • Today

• I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.

  

  Gary Carter
  • Music
  • Guy
  • Rock

• To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • History
  • Hope
  • Future

• I feel, even if someone is blessed with good hair, one needs to follow the basic hair care regime, and that means investing in the correct shampoo, conditioner, and mask.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Good
  • Hair
  • Blessed

• I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Love
  • Fun
  • Farm

• I believe in incentivizing people. If you can incentivize people in anything, whether it's in politics; in life; in spirituality; in business; just take care of folks. Incentivize them and all of a sudden it's amazing the difference that you'll see.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• If you don't show care and love for your children and leave the mothers to take care of all their needs, if they grow up, they will also not consider you.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Up
  • Children
  • Love

• The world appears rectilinear, but is in fact curvilinear - a literal truth in physics, and a metaphorical one in metaphysics.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • World
  • Truth
  • Physics

• To be understood is to prostitute yourself.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• That's the great thing about music. You can find some '60s pop record and feel completely invigorated by it, even though it's so old.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Great
  • Music

• I feel that any man that tries, any man that comes out with something we like, is a good man. A man doesn't have to be Leonardo Da Vinci to be sincere.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Good
  • I Feel
  • Leonardo Da Vinci

• Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in weak short stories or novels.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Poetry
  • Criticism
  • Novels

• I don't know how people recognize me.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • People
  • Know
  • Me

• Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

  

  Denis Diderot
  • Poetry