Paul Claudel Quotes
When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell.Paul Claudel
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Nothing earth-shattering has happened in men's fashion. How much can you do with men's clothes?
Calvin Klein -
When I'm writing, I'm just in it and trying to figure out what seems best.
Patrick Ness -
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
B. F. Skinner -
Marketing is more important than it has ever been. But I'm trying to tear the layers back and make it not so contrived. I think people just want entertainment.
Usher -
I'm attracted to mysterious men. Every woman can relate to that, right?
Rachel Bilson -
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
Oscar Wilde
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Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.
H. P. Lovecraft -
I had an incredibly full life with my imagination: I used to have all sorts of trolls and things; I had a wonderful world around my toys and invented people. I don't mean I had imaginary friends; I just had this big imagination thing going on. I didn't need any imaginary friends, because I had so much other stuff going on.
Kate Bush -
We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.
Walter Winchell -
As writers, it is our job not only to imagine, but to witness.
Dani Shapiro -
There is no such thing as a German, French, or Anglo-American Expressionism! There are only young people trying to find their bearings in the world.
Oskar Kokoschka -
Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly.
Malcolm X
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Divorces led to bodies of men (called legislatures) protecting women collectively as other men (called husbands) failed to protect women individually.
Warren Farrell -
It would be a much better country if women did not vote. That is simply a fact. In fact, in every presidential election since 1950 - except Goldwater in '64 - the Republican would have won, if only the men had voted.
Ann Coulter -
The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
Francis Bacon -
We were talking about the kissing in the movie just recently. Clearly, it's pretty challenging material, but Ang said two men herding sheep was far more sexual than two men having sex on screen.
Jake Gyllenhaal -
I spent a whole year when I was injured just trying to get my arm back to the point where I could hit a tennis ball for more than 30 minutes a day. I'd hit for 15 minutes and it would feel as if my arm was going to fall off.
Maria Sharapova -
Business has to change the way it does business, or we will make no significant changes in the way we relate to the earth.
Dennis Weaver
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You don't want to be too uptight about anything. Especially your job.
Gilbert Arenas -
Those who say that without the monarchy Britain would be a banana republic are closing their eyes to the banana republic features which the cult of monarchy necessitates. Dazzled by the show, moreover, they may be missing other long-run tendencies towards banana-dom which it is the partial function of monarchy to obscure.
Christopher Hitchens -
I became demented overnight. Sudden onset is one factor that distinguishes my form of dementia from the more common form associated with Alzheimer's disease.
Floyd Skloot -
Gittin' talked about is one o' th' penalties for bein' purty, while bein' above suspicion is about th' only compensation fer bein' homely.
Kin Hubbard -
In the vaults of our hearts and brains, danger waits. All the chambers are not lovely, light and high. There are holes in the floor of the mind, like those in a medieval dungeon floor - the stinking oubliettes, named for forgetting, bottle-shaped cells in solid rock with the trapdoor in the top. Nothing escapes from them quietly to ease us. A quake, some betrayal by our safeguards, and sparks of memory fire the noxious gases - things trapped for years fly free, ready to explode in pain and drive us to dangerous behavior.
Thomas Harris -
When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell.
Paul Claudel