Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes

The contact of two epidermises.

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• It's so important to me to do the washing, do the Hoovering. I don't ever want to lose contact with that.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Important
  • Want
  • Lose

• I have enjoyed every call. The ones involving direct contact with people have been most rewarding.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • People
  • Contact
  • Call

• Stand-up and sketch and improv - that's the most direct contact you can have with somebody, making them laugh. I like that. I like the intimacy.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Up
  • Laugh
  • Intimacy

• As an actor, you come in contact with so many different people and cultures. It makes you a more accepting person.

  

  Taylor Spreitler
  • People
  • Different
  • You

• The immune system has evolved the capacity to react specifically with a very large number of foreign molecules with which it had no previous contact while avoiding reactivity for autologous molecules, naturally antigenic in other species or in other individuals of the same species.

  

  Baruj Benacerraf
  • Same
  • Very
  • Contact

• I understand Twitter has become popular among politicians. This technology allows them to stay in perpetual contact with their constituents. The electorate now has instant information about what politicians have been up to.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Technology
  • Popular

• When people contact me on Instagram or Facebook, kids and adults, who say, "You're an inspiration. You make me want to work hard to achieve my goals." If I can still do that after I retire that makes me feel good.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Inspiration
  • Goals
  • Hard Work

• Some writers thrive on the contact with the commerce of success; others are corrupted by it. Perhaps, like losing one's virginity,it is not as bad (or as good) as one feared it was going to be.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Success

• To achieve contact with reality is not to transport oneself elsewhere; it is not transcendence but thorough immersion in one's surroundings - a reality which is neither purely physical nor metaphysical, but both at once.

  

  Antoni Tapies
  • Reality
  • Contact
  • Transport

• Every mind needs friendly contact with other minds, for food of expansion and growth.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Mind
  • Food
  • Growth

• We all make mistakes, we all have fears, and we all have weaknesses. Behind all that is our essential self. When our essential self has made contact with another, the light is dazzling and would fill the universe. The challenge of enchantment is to remain faithful to that light, to believe in it when it is not so apparent. Then that light becomes an incandescent glow and it wraps itself around everything.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Believe
  • Light
  • Universe

• Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Advice
  • Hero
  • Worship

• We found out that there is no substitute for human contact.

  

  Phil Jackson
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• For me, sex is a refraction of the thing about identity. In the sexual contact, which is usually - but not exclusively - between two people, you do retain separate people.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • People
  • Identity
  • Contact

• Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is-insofar as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Science
  • Contact
  • Scheme

• They wanted to buy out my contract, but I couldn't make change for a $20, so they had to let me stay.

  

  Abe Lemons
  • Change
  • Contact
  • Buy

• I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own.

  

  Wilson Mizner
  • Lawyer
  • Fortune
  • Contact

• Make a better friend of every man with whom you come in contact

  

  William Feather
  • Men
  • Inspiration
  • Contact

• As Rilke observed, love requires a progressive shortening of the senses: I can see you for miles; I can hear you for blocks, I can smell you, maybe, for a few feet, but I can only touch on contact, taste as I devour

  

  William H. Gass
  • Feet
  • Contact
  • Block

• In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth.

  

  Susanne Langer
  • Long
  • Art
  • Change

• Men don't hear women.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Men
  • Women
  • Hear

• I don't want to play forever. I want to give everything I can now and then walk away knowing I gave everything. The example I think of is Barry Sanders. He was such a great player, and he left when he was still on top. I want that to be me.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Great
  • Think
  • Player

• The contact of two epidermises.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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