Jacques Barzun Quotes

The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.

Jacques Barzun

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• The only thing I have learnt over the years is that if you enjoy your work and put in the best efforts, it will show. If you follow this process, things work out. But if you go chasing a formula, success will elude you.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Success
  • Best

• I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • Time
  • Great
  • School

• I have a complicated relationship with the horror genre. I love it; I loved it as a kid growing up, and I watched Chiller Theater in New York. So I loved it, but then you do feel if you do it too much, you're stuck there.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • Up
  • Love
  • Growing

• Suits are looked at more now as a business thing which is kind of a shame. If you're not wearing it just for work, you should try and trick it up a bit.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Up
  • Work
  • Business

• So as far as Serbia is concerned, it does not have the right to influence the privatization or to claim any property, because Kosovo is a former member of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • Right
  • Influence
  • Far

• I hope everybody thinks they've got the best album. I wouldn't have put mine out if I didn't think it was the best.

  

  Wale
  • Hope
  • Think
  • Best

• The Internet is changing what entertainment and sports is. It's not just a few people authoring an experience for others. It's really growing out of what everybody does.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Experience
  • Growing

• If the City Council wants to hold the police accountable, it has the subpoena power and oversight responsibility to do so. They don't have the courage to do it.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Power
  • City
  • Responsibility

• I had the strong sense that I really wanted to be a SEAL, and I started thinking, 'Look, I don't ever want to look back and feel I have any regrets.'

  

  Gabriel E. Gomez
  • Thinking
  • Want
  • Strong

• Now, the United Nations is an organization that I believe was founded with good intentions. As a matter of fact, a prominent Tennessean named Cordell Hull was very involved with it.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Organization

• When I was five I had violin lessons.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Lessons
  • Had
  • VIolin

• Kansas City is one of the most convenient airports in the nation.

  

  Sam Graves
  • City
  • Nation
  • Kansas

• What Obamacare does is decreases choices and drives up cost.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Choices
  • Cost

• He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Forever
  • Between
  • Cliche

• Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • God
  • Man
  • Day

• You know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Free
  • Start
  • Speech

• I love going swimming. I spent a lot of time in North London in summer going to Hampstead Heath and swimming in the ponds there. It's so beautiful; we're so lucky to have that in London.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Summer

• Initially, I tried to become an aid worker and someone who could help people, but I was unsuccessful in convincing anyone that I could be of any use. So I went and became a war correspondent without any experience in war or in being a correspondent. So that was daring.

  

  Samantha Power
  • People
  • Experience
  • War

• I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work.

  

  Louis C. K.
  • Time
  • Work
  • Experience

• I like the look of frogs, and their outlook, and especially the way they get together in wet places on warm nights and sing about sex.

  

  Archie Carr
  • Sing
  • Nights
  • Frogs

• Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Party
  • Conflict
  • Magnitude

• It's like the Tibetan Wheel of the Passions. As the wheel turns, the values and feelings on the outer rim rise and fall, shining or sinking into darkness. But true love stays fastened to the axle and doesn't move.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Values
  • Darkness
  • Move

• There have been situations where the people you're around have one vision for you, and it's like trying on a jacket that doesn't fit.

  

  Keri Hilson The Clutch
  • People
  • Trying
  • Vision

• The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.

  

  Jacques Barzun