Gaston Bachelard Quotes

The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace

Gaston Bachelard

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• I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Purpose

• I don't wear a lot of color because I live in New York, and I'm sort of color-blind, so colors don't match to me a lot of the times, and it makes me anxious. So I'll always defer back to black.

  

  Verite
  • Live
  • Black
  • Color

• Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Men
  • Women
  • Virtue

• Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Game

• One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Men
  • Women
  • Goals

• When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they saved their rock material til the end of the night when they were really stretched out. It could be pretty lame.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Pretty
  • Night
  • Band

• In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Kind
  • Experiences
  • Shock

• Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Very
  • Well
  • Handle

• I think, especially in pop culture, we're brought up to think that a normal pop star is this pretty, well-kept-together girl.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Up
  • Together
  • Pretty

• There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Travel
  • Try
  • Tribe

• I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • House

• The plastic bottle we're throwing away every day still stays there. And if we show that to people, then we can also promote some behavioral change.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • People
  • Change
  • Day

• I didn't like playing with dolls; I didn't like getting dressed up. A lot of my friends and people I went to school with were into fashion and their clothes, so I lacked a bit of self-belief and confidence... I wasn't really comfortable.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.

  

  Lance Morrow
  • Home
  • Sweet
  • Welcome

• I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Life Story

• I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.

  

  Laura Spencer
  • Family
  • School
  • Opportunity

• I don't like the mentality that comes with rich Russian men. Because they have money, they think they can buy a woman - and they do.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Men
  • Money
  • Woman

• A lot of people are afraid of the idea of enslavement, and that's because it's tied to so much shame and guilt... That is the big elephant in the room, but a part of why we're afraid to attack that subject matter is because of the way we've been taught about it.

  

  Aldis Hodge
  • People
  • Why
  • Elephant

• Death and resurrection are what the story is about and had we but eyes to see it, this has been hinted on every page, met us, in some disguise, at every turn, and even been muttered in conversations between such minor characters (if they are minor characters) as the vegetables.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Character
  • Death
  • Eyes

• I love rumors. It gives me something to think about and enjoy.

  

  Leonard Lauder
  • Rumors

• And I think a good writer's gonna make it interesting. From the first paragraph it will all be interesting. Just work at it and work at it and work at it.

  

  Kurt Loder
  • Good
  • Work
  • Interesting

• Lo! the moon ascending!Up from the East, the silvery round moon;Beautiful over the house-tops, ghastly, phantom moon;Immense and silent moon.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Up
  • House
  • Beautiful

• The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • House
  • Dream
  • Peace