Gaston Bachelard Quotes

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

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• I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Kind
  • Cool
  • Obsessed

• If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • Long
  • Country

• After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Hope
  • Smile
  • Seeing

• Takers believe in a zero-sum world, and they end up creating one where bosses, colleagues and clients don't trust them. Givers build deeper and broader relationships - people are rooting for them instead of gunning for them.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Why
  • Bad
  • Know

• I've been a fan of Burberry for a very long time and they've been so supportive of me for many years.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Time
  • Fan
  • Supportive

• I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • More
  • U.S.
  • Stones

• I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.

  

  Farnaz Fassihi
  • May
  • Death
  • You

• I have not seen 'Vaalu' yet, but I am sure it will be good.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Good
  • Vaalu

• I came into politics by accident. I may go out of politics by accident.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • May
  • Politics
  • Go

• I've really had two heroes in my life. My father and Ronald Reagan.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Life
  • Father
  • My Life

• I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Important
  • Myself
  • Ego

• The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Start
  • Difficulty
  • Ordeal

• I got a big mouth.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Big
  • Got
  • Mouth

• I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I'm sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don't even know when you're being compromised till after the fact, and that's what you regret.

  

  Kanye West
  • Know
  • Sometimes
  • Regret

• I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Life
  • History
  • Circumstances

• I'm a black Catholic raised in Decatur, Georgia, which was very gang-infested. Then, I went to an all-white private high school and excelled in sports and wrote poetry, then played football at the University of Georgia, minoring in drama.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • School
  • High
  • Black

• I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Good
  • Real
  • Think

• It's interesting how some songs really lend themselves to performance in a big public venue and performance by a band and so on, and so they're even more successful in that context than they were on the record.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Interesting
  • Band
  • Successful

• I want to be fulfilled in myself, rather than try to follow exactly in my father's footsteps.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Father
  • Want
  • Myself

• A careful reading of 50 Simple Things leaves you wondering whether you're going to die from environmental disaster or intellectual annoyance. Failing either, you can worry yourself to death.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Death
  • Die
  • Reading

• It's very simple. If the American people care about a lot of things including corruption in government, then, in fact, if you use the power to appoint in order to do political business, to clear fields, to save your party money and so on, if it's not a crime - and I believe it is - it certainly is business as usual, politics of corruption.

  

  Darrell Issa
  • People
  • Believe
  • Money

• It's not very hard to be clever. It's far harder to be simple, obvious, and meaningful.

  

  Jake Barton
  • Simple
  • Meaningful
  • Clever

• Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Simple
  • Ideas
  • Commerce