Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Quotes

The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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• No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • School
  • She
  • Government

• You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • You
  • Judge
  • Them

• In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.

  

  Nate Silver
  • People
  • Politics
  • Build

• But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Know
  • Look
  • Existence

• It is in the U.S. interest to engage Iran in serious negotiations - on both regional security and the nuclear challenge it poses.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Challenge
  • Serious
  • Security

• Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Secret
  • Perseverance

• I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Death
  • Political
  • Creativity

• The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Strong

• I don't think that genius goes hand in hand with being socially inept or being a sociopath or being a misanthrope, but I do think that it is a mind that can think so differently - so beyond how one is supposed to think.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Hand

• In my final year of college, I was interning with L'Oreal, when during one of the photo shoots, a photographer suggested I become a model. I was working under Smira Bakshi, who was this really cool chick, as she was loaded, had her fun, and was successful. I basically aspired to be her.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • She
  • Fun
  • College

• The most brilliant satire of all time was 'A Modest Proposal' by Jonathan Swift. You'll notice how everything got straightened out in Ireland within days of that coming out.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Time
  • You
  • Days

• With 'The Vampire Diaries,' it's not just a tease, especially with the relationships. You're not sitting there going, 'God, I wish they'd get it over with and kiss!' There's no teasing, they jump right into the action.

  

  Candice Accola
  • God
  • Action
  • Wish

• We don't live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Work
  • Live
  • Pride

• You just activated a nuclear warhead, my friend.

  

  John Travolta
  • Friend
  • Justice
  • Friendship

• Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.

  

  Alan Paton
  • Men
  • Live
  • Words

• Real travel is not about the highlights with which you dazzle your friends once you're home. It's about the loneliness, the solitude, the evenings spent by yourself, pining to be somewhere else. Those are the moments of true value. You feel half proud of them and half ashamed and you hold them to your heart.

  

  Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
  • Real
  • Heart
  • Home

• I think it's difficult to be honest about certain aspects of my work without acknowledging that I have experienced or felt or questioned certain of the themes in the books.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Work

• We grow old more through indolence, than through age.

  

  Queen Christina
  • Age
  • Grow
  • Indolence

• There is no more intrepid explorer than a kitten.

  

  Jules François Felix Fleury-Husson
  • Kitten
  • Explorer
  • Intrepid

• My favourite smell is horses. In fact, most of the time, I do smell like horses.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Time
  • Smell
  • Favourite

• The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell.

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • Smell
  • Substance