Paul Valery Quotes

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Paul Valery

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• Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Success
  • Me
  • Always

• The Internet is the Viagra of big business.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Business
  • Internet
  • Big

• I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days.

  

  Aaron Huey
  • Work
  • Guy
  • Style

• For centuries, building materials were free. You want to build a house, you cut down some trees. But we haven't been thinking about the cost to the planet.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • Thinking
  • House
  • Free

• You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Hate
  • Tree
  • Roots

• I love mispronunciations. I love when people mispronounce things.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Love
  • Things

• You can't live in a dialect without tremendous work. Like any muscle, accents and voices and languages are all formed out of the muscles that we have in our mouths and faces and tongues.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Work
  • Live
  • Dialect

• My Mum brought me up to believe that if you look after the pennies then the pounds look after themselves, and I could never do it.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Believe
  • Me
  • Never

• My mother was American, and my father was from the Caribbean, and there was a big open door into the world of humanity and music.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • World
  • Music
  • American

• In America, Blackberry Farm in Tennessee is one of the most amazing hotels I've had the privilege of staying at.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • America
  • Amazing
  • Farm

• Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.

  

  Van Wyck Brooks
  • Nothing
  • Without
  • Standards

• I think the first and principle objective is to repeal Obamacare before it does lasting, fundamental damage to our health care system, to our individual liberty, to the relationship each of us has with his or her doctor.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Relationship
  • Health
  • Doctor

• I made the first Feist album in '98. So at that point, it was my nickname. It was as far as with my circle of friends, and just felt more accurate than two names.

  

  Feist
  • Friends
  • First
  • Circle

• They have been deprived nutritionally, or some illness has not been picked up, or they have not been screened for vision or hearing defects, or they have not had some kind of a chronic illness or error of metabolism picked up.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Vision

• I haven't killed anyone on television in years and years. Must have been twenty something years.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • Years
  • Television
  • Something

• It feels great to win and I can't be more thankful to the Lord for walking me through every step. God was and is so faithful every time.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Time
  • Great
  • God

• When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Time

• I’ve known a lot of talented people but the people that really, really, achieve success – there is ambition, focus and drive behind it.

  

  Anna Sui
  • People
  • Success
  • Focus

• Sports teaches you there is always a second innings in life. If you fail today, theres a second innings maybe two days later. Maybe theres another opportunity coming up three or six months later. If you look at mistake as learnings and commit never to make a same mistake again, then you actually get better with every mistake that you make.

  

  Harsha Bhogle
  • Life
  • Sports
  • Innings

• It takes a lot of money to hire an attorney.

  

  Fred Korematsu
  • Money

• In pop music, the public usually see the results - the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours - but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won't make it.

  

  Bruno Mars
  • Work
  • Music

• Everyone I've ever fallen in love with, I just fell in love with! I didn't date them to try.

  

  Alexa Chung

• I love traditional music. But in any culture around the world, there is the historic and cultural music and everything that's been passed down and passed down, and hopefully you take that, and then you take it, you know, the next distance, and then somebody else takes it the next distance.

  

  Robbie Robertson
  • Distance
  • Everything
  • Somebody

• A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

  

  Paul Valery