Nathalie Sarraute Quotes

I have never sought the reason why I write.

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• I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more assured about my 'voice' as a writer and being able to keep the characters true to themselves.

  

  J. A. Jance
  • Writing
  • Book
  • True

• The next step for me with the Up is how it talks with the rest of the home. It's an object that can tell the home where I am and what I'm doing.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Up
  • Home
  • Step

• I am always early to work but sometimes late to other things.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Work
  • Early
  • Late

• A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • She
  • Woman
  • Struggle

• If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am! My size is a huge part of me.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Size

• The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Long
  • Humanity
  • Survival

• A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • She
  • Woman
  • Old

• It takes so long for the folks who are earning minimum wage to finally see a little bit of a rise... that it takes a little nudge, I think, from government.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Long
  • Government
  • Minimum Wage

• My parents gave me the easy option that if you're going to go your way, that's the highway. You can expect no funds and no support, which I think was legitimate; that was a fair option.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Parents
  • Support
  • Easy

• Life is not about dwelling on the bad.

  

  Lara Logan
  • Life
  • Bad
  • About

• My first album was completed in three months.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • First
  • Three
  • Months

• When someone saves your life and gives you life, there's gratitude, humility; there's a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn't deserve.

  

  Pat Summerall
  • Life
  • Time
  • Blessed

• Seriously, I do a lot of yoga, so I'm in control of my body.

  

  Randee Heller
  • Control
  • Body
  • Yoga

• The second trial was a fair trial. I do not call it a second trial. I call it a fair trial, as opposed to the first trial, which was an unfair trial, a Roman holiday.

  

  Sam Sheppard
  • First
  • Holiday
  • Unfair

• The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'

  

  Gail O'Grady
  • Reality
  • Show
  • Shark

• I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Work
  • Free
  • Best

• Sometimes, it's just unfortunate you get injured in the game. But you can definitely take strides to prevent those things.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Game
  • You
  • Sometimes

• In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Done
  • Just
  • Collective

• We must not stop speaking the truth to the radical parties because voters will follow those who speak the truth, and European politics will grow more radical, which is in nobody's interest.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Truth
  • Stop
  • Politics

• What's a better foundation for drama? You have power, you have ambition, you have sex... that's the stuff of drama.

  

  Leslie Odom, Jr.
  • Power
  • Sex
  • Drama

• The Olympics was really, really stressful because I had never done anything like it. At the same time, I was understanding something like that could never really happen again. I embraced it and took in everything.

  

  Laurie Hernandez
  • Time
  • Done
  • Understanding

• There were pockets of this career - whatever you want to call it - where I said, 'I've tapped out. I don't want to do this. I'm gonna go be a stage hand. I don't want to do this. I don't want to talk to people. I'm afraid of people. I'm going to walk away from everything that this was and is.'

  

  Keala Settle
  • People
  • Career
  • Hand

• My goodness, why is this woman [ Hillary Clinton ] at 46%? She's like the magic 46. She's 46% in the new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, she's 46% in a lot of these swing states.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • Why
  • She
  • Magic

• I have never sought the reason why I write.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Why
  • Reason
  • Never