Isabelle Eberhardt (Isabelle Wilhelmine Marie Eberhardt) Quotes

To be alone is to be free, and freedom was the only happiness accessible to my nature.

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• I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • School
  • Kids
  • Like

• I'm not really a fan of Valentine's Day. I think it can be romantic doing nothing on Valentine's Day. It's more romantic than being given a big bunch of flowers that everyone else is doing.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Day
  • Romantic
  • Flowers

• If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.

  

  Adam Grant
  • World
  • Children
  • Ideas

• It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Possible
  • Prefer
  • Blondes

• Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.

  

  Kaitlin Olson
  • Me
  • Sometimes
  • Find

• I was taking my first uncertain steps towards writing for children when my own were young. Reading aloud to them taught me a great deal when I had a great deal to learn. It taught me elementary things about rhythm and pace, the necessary musicality of text.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Children

• If it's really beautiful weather, sometimes I might take a helicopter out. I got my license in 1999.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Beautiful
  • Weather
  • License

• I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.

  

  Abel Korzeniowski
  • First
  • Piano
  • Wrote

• I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college to be where I am today. Not to put college down, but for me, it would be digressing.

  

  Dana Hill
  • School
  • Kids
  • Today

• The black community in Hollywood is very small and close-knit. Everyone has a common goal: to make a two-hour movie in 30 days.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Movie
  • Black
  • Small

• A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Good
  • Travel
  • Plans

• You don't have to do anything in the movies. You just sit there. Well, that's not entirely true. You do less.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • True
  • You
  • Movies

• Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • Long
  • Character
  • Funny

• When I'm writing a movie, it's usually pretty close to what the movie is going to be, which is just a luxury of being a writer-director.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Writing
  • Movie
  • Pretty

• You can play older than yourself. You can play younger than yourself up to a point, and then that just becomes impossible because you carry a weight with you that you can't shift, unless you have very boyish looks.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Up
  • Play
  • Yourself

• Growing up, watching the Premier League as far back as I can remember, feeling the trophy and having the medal around my neck was an unbelievable feeling.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Feeling

• I actually think the one who is underestimated in terms of impact he's had on society is Bill Gates. The reason is that with the innovation of software, he really allowed the computer revolution to take hold.

  

  Fabrice Grinda
  • Society
  • Revolution
  • Innovation

• I used to write fiction, non-fiction, fiction, non-fiction and have a clear pattern because I'd need a break from one style when going into the next book.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Book
  • Style
  • Clear

• Speaking from personal experience, I think that losing the sense of free will has only improved my ethics - by increasing my feelings of compassion and forgiveness, and diminishing my sense of entitlement to the fruits of my own good luck.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Free

• The Academy and the Oscars have been very gracious to me.

  

  Billy Crystal

• Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Music
  • Writing
  • You

• Obviously, the cinematography of films is art, just as a still shot can be art. If I'm watching a Wes Anderson movie, the colour palettes alone, and the way they're painted, could be art. With music, you're a little bit limited, of course, because it's only audio.

  

  Frank Ocean
  • Music
  • Art
  • Movie

• To be alone is to be free, and freedom was the only happiness accessible to my nature.

  

  Isabelle Eberhardt
  • Nature
  • Free
  • Alone