Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes

If taking vitamins doesn't keep you healthy enough, try more laughter: The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.

Sébastien-Roch Nicolas

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• People get TV deals by doing something in their grandmother's basement. It is definitely the wave. Everybody is trying to do all that stuff. I mean, the Internet is the only reason that I've gotten work is because I've somehow created a line and people have seen it. And then I've been asked to auditions.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
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• I was strong and healthy and I was enjoying what I was doing.

  

  O. Winston Link
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• Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.

  

  Wavy Gravy
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• I consider 'Dr. Horrible' a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else's hands and changing the world.

  

  Nathan Fillion
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• As authors, most - most authors, our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it's like to be somebody else, trying to make you feel for somebody else. That means you have to have a high degree of empathy.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
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• When I'm writing, I'm just in it and trying to figure out what seems best.

  

  Patrick Ness
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• 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
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• Give us enough but with a sparing hand.

  

  Edmund Waller
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  • U.S.

• We have got into Indian railways and are trying to get into the railway locomotive business in Europe and the United States.

  

  Baba Kalyani
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• Every cancer looks different. Every cancer has similarities to other cancers. And we're trying to milk those differences and similarities to do a better job of predicting how things are going to work out and making new drugs.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
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• 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
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• I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.

  

  Daniel Clowes
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• If you start trying to communicate ideas, I think you don't allow the audience to see themselves.

  

  Oscar Isaac
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• It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying to look at my books in terms of my life.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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  • Trying

• I haven't heard Obama ask us for our consent when he's trying to ram Obamacare down our throats.

  

  Rafael Cruz
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• When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside the characters I've got.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• What is the use trying to describe the flowing of a river at any one moment, and then at the next moment, and then at the next, and the next, and the next? You wear out. You say: There is a great river, and it flows through this land, and we have named it History.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
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• I will not be tamed, only persuaded. I will not be coerced or led blindly or tricked or bullied - I am willing only to be convinced. If you don't trust your own basic goodness enough to tell me what you're trying to do... Then you're confessing your own moral weakness and I'll never serve you.

  

  Orson Scott Card
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• The most important thing to Ben and me was starting a family, so as soon as we got engaged, we booked Gurney's in Montauk - which is just a few miles down the beach from our summer home - as our wedding venue a full year and a half out, and then we immediately started trying to get pregnant.

  

  Jennifer Hyman
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• I'm happy to be part of this chorus of people who are trying to tell more complex stories about Haiti.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
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• The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else.

  

  Joseph Butler
  • Heart

• '3:10 to Yuma' was one that I just kept on talking and thinking about after reading it. And I think the reason is because, like in most Westerns, you have the very clear-cut bad-guy/good-guy, however, as the movie progresses, you kind of see that it's a very fine line that divides these two.

  

  Christian Bale
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Bad

• Writing is a good example of self-abandonment. I never completely forget myself except when I am writing and I am never more completely myself than when I am writing.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Myself

• If taking vitamins doesn't keep you healthy enough, try more laughter: The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Trying
  • Enough
  • Laughter