Denis Diderot Quotes

It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.

Denis Diderot

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• Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Why
  • Want
  • Food

• I'm a bit of a fashion magpie.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Fashion
  • Bit

• People think that if you've written a book and somebody's given you a pat on the back then, you know, it's all - you're all settled, you know? You're going to be fine. I know that if I'm not confused, and really afraid, my work isn't going to be any good.

  

  Barry Lopez
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Time
  • Success
  • Failure

• I sold a bunch of stuff. I sold Omaha Steaks, vacation packages... the worst, though, was Time Life Books, because no one wants Time Life Books. No one wants an 'Encyclopedia Brittanica' showing up at their house.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Important
  • Partner
  • Tea

• I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Life
  • Art
  • Fear

• The problem was just a mean attitude that festers and has to be challenged.

  

  Major Owens
  • Problem
  • Mean
  • Attitude

• The pancreas is by far the most complex organ in the body.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Body
  • Most
  • Complex

• How you feel about the modern, multitouch tablet depends a lot on what you think Steve Jobs and company set out to do with the iPad back in 2010. If you believe he was out to make a bigger smartphone or to entirely replace the Mac and PC, you're wrong.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Believe
  • Think
  • Company

• My grandmother got her law degree from Syracuse University in roughly 1911 and later co-founded with her husband an investment banking firm on Wall Street known as Lebenthal & Co.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Law
  • Husband
  • Wall

• Retired life's good, man.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Man

• Here are the facts we confront. No one is against conservation. No one is against alternative fuel sources.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • Facts
  • Fuel
  • Conservation

• You typically find stereotypical female characters that are people pleasers, where they are wives and girlfriends, typically, who are in the background.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • People
  • You
  • Find

• The home seems to me to be the proper sphere for the man. And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not?

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Neglect
  • Duties

• All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles.Who will rule,Who will lead,Who will define,refine,confine,design,Who will dominate.All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles, And mostare no more intellectualthan two ramsknocking their heads together.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Together
  • Design

• I've always considered my work one piece and I consider that my work won't be finished until I am dead and buried and I hope that's a long, long time.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• Goodness gracious I can't seem to stop  Calling it off  Calling it off just to keep crawling to your arms

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Stop

• Being an artist is not easy - I have always said that to the students I have taught over the years. It's a huge sacrifice.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • Sacrifice

• My old coach used to say that if you were in it for the match, if you were in it for the trophies, you were in it for the wrong reasons.

  

  John Irving

• Assuming roles is something that simply won't work for me, since I don't have a style. None at all.

  

  Martin Kippenberger
  • Work
  • Style

• I learned five chords; I thought I knew it all.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks

• Desire is the creator; desire is the destroyer.

  

  Baba Hari Dass
  • Desire
  • Creator
  • Destroyers

• It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.

  

  Denis Diderot