Paul Valery Quotes

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

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• I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Learned
  • Dangerous
  • Drive

• I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Way
  • Person
  • English

• It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.

  

  Ed Greenwood
  • Story
  • Yourself
  • Surprise

• I do freestyle jumping. Been doing since I was eight years old and can't quit. I'm addicted. I've broken many bones, but I ride with confidence. It's my thing - there's no high on earth like it. It's my hobby and I really enjoy it.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • High
  • Earth
  • Confidence

• I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Life
  • Work
  • Home

• The Zionist movement gave political expression to our claim to the land of Israel. And in 1922, the League of Nations recognized the justice of this claim.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Political
  • Justice
  • Israel

• I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Family
  • Queen
  • Fabulous

• For many children, the library represents their only access to books, reading, and the Internet outside of their home. If you think about how far behind a child would be without access to these fundamental tools - tools that are vital to successful employment later in life - it's a travesty.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Life
  • Children
  • Home

• The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.

  

  Ovid
  • Others
  • Crop
  • Heavier

• Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • God
  • Thoughts

• It's so exciting to be able to talk about Office 365. I can only describe what Office 365 is in sort of two words. You could say technically it's three words. But Office 365, ladies and gentlemen, is nothing but a Google butt-kicker, that's all it is.

  

  B. Kevin Turner
  • Words
  • You
  • I Can

• I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Life
  • Always
  • Human

• New Hampshire is moving in the right direction because we have shown time and time again that we can work across the aisle to solve problems.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Time
  • Work
  • Moving

• Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Why
  • Bad
  • Luck

• British girls are really funny, so I definitely think we'd get along.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Think
  • Funny
  • Along

• Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • People
  • Need
  • Very

• No one in my family has been observant for generations, but we all identify with being Jewish.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Family
  • Jewish
  • Identify

• We must recognize and keep in the public consciousness the significant contributions and sacrifices Americans of every community have made that have helped forge the greatest country our world has ever known.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • World
  • Country
  • Community

• While drawing, I discover what I really want to say.

  

  Dario Fo
  • Drawing

• If the moon and earth were not retained in their orbits by their animal force or some other equivalent, the earth would mount to the moon by a fifty-fourth part of their distance, and the moon fall towards the earth through the other fifty-three parts, and they would there meet, assuming, however, that the substance of both is of the same density.

  

  Johannes Kepler
  • Earth
  • Fall
  • Animal

• Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realise how important it is to use the time I have.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Sometimes I feel like people don't even know how to react in some situations because of online culture. Since many things are online, you might not react to something that is happening live.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • People
  • Live
  • Culture

• People get nervous when things move to Friday. Friday has become a landscape where shows just don't do very well as business for the network.

  

  J. H. Wyman
  • People
  • Things
  • Move

• Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

  

  Paul Valery
  • People
  • Fire