Pierre Corneille Quotes

Le désir s'accroît quand l'effet se recule.

Pierre Corneille

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• I usually decide what to wear in the morning, but sometimes, I'll have a favorite coat or sweater or shoes, and I'll wear them everyday for a week!

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Morning
  • Everyday
  • Shoes

• I achieved what I want to achieve and I want to continue doing something else.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Want
  • Doing
  • Achieve

• Europe can be saved.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Europe
  • Saved

• I don't really enjoy working in TV, to be completely honest. Even though it's incredibly lucrative, I'm just terrified of not being satiated in a myriad of different ways.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Different
  • Enjoy
  • Working

• When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Laugh
  • Mickey Mouse

• Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • History
  • Science
  • Poetry

• There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Giving

• My job is to create myself a career that I can go to sleep satisfied with what I'm doing.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • Job
  • Career
  • Myself

• That's what makes writer's block so painful. You think the well has run dry, maybe somewhere in the heavens the tap has been turned off. That's beyond frightening.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Think
  • You
  • Painful

• If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • You
  • Anything
  • Repeat

• When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • New
  • New York
  • Teenager

• Most style is not honest enough.

  

  F. L. Lucas
  • Style
  • Enough
  • Honest

• Many Indians and Israelis seem set to elect, with untroubled consciences, those who speak the language of torturers and terrorists. More disturbingly, these corrupted democracies may increasingly prove the norm rather than the exception.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • May
  • Language
  • Speak

• Fortunately, I was still living in Los Angeles at the time. So I went out to World Gym and got a membership.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Time
  • World
  • Gym

• A lot of my music is very roots-oriented, and that's country and soul. I've been in every roadhouse in the South, soaking in all of that... Nashville is like a second home to me, and I'm just gravitating toward the songs.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Music
  • Country
  • Home

• I'd grown up an athletic child, a competitive soccer player since age 4, with stints ranging from months to years in gymnastics, softball, volleyball.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Up
  • Age
  • Player

• I'm a working musician, so it's what I do. I kind of always have lots of plates spinning, and it's the ones that keep spinning the longest that I end up doing.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Up
  • Kind
  • End

• Our whole philosophy is one of transparency.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Philosophy
  • Transparency

• Even now as a manager, when I suffer a loss it still feels like a first loss, the first I suffered as a player. And when I win, it is like my first win, too. This is me, this is my personality, it is who I am and will always be.

  

  Diego Maradona
  • Player
  • Personality

• Having an eye is one thing, but you have to be able to execute.

  

  Kelly Wearstler

• I like Penny. She's cool. Yeah, she dates some idiots, but, although, so have I. So yeah, I would be friends with her. We'd have a lot to talk about.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • She
  • Friends
  • Cool

• ...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Alive
  • Monster
  • Abyss

• Le désir s'accroît quand l'effet se recule.

  

  Pierre Corneille