Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
-
The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
-
I want to stay alive. Yeah, I want to stay alive. I think that's the main thing. If there's a chance I can live longer, I want to do it.
-
In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.
-
One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
-
For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.
-
Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.
-
While I am not saying Facebook cannot be a wonderland for marketers, I am still waiting to see the proof of it, and so should every reporter.
-
I think, on a larger note, that filmmakers and studios should start to tuck it in a little bit, because films wouldn't have the pressure they have if the word wasn't out about how expensive they were.
-
I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.
-
Trust your gut. You know yourself, so don't let somebody else tell you who you are.
-
If parents could just get their children moving around in the most simple and fun ways - jumping in leaves, dancing to pop music, throwing socks in a laundry basket - they could be sowing the seeds of great habits that could last a lifetime. It is all about turning it into a game.
-
The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.
-
When I run - as you see from my record - I run to win.
-
Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?
-
The West should be tougher on Pakistan. It is trying to play both ends against the middle - to look like the friend of the revolutionaries on the one hand and a friend of the West in the fight against terrorism. It can't be both things.
-
'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
-
Football is my sanctuary. It's where I go to escape. It's where I'm most happy.
-
It's so important for those living with chronic pain to establish good communication with both their healthcare professionals and caregivers. Clear communication about pain is vital to receiving proper diagnosis and effective treatment.
-
A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
-
If you go through some big corporate change, it's just not going to be the same. If we sold to Yahoo, they would have done something different; if you want to continue your vision of the company, then don't sell because there's inevitably going to be some change.
-
Just being able to get paid to do something you love is a wonderful thing. That said, a writer's daily routine, unless you're Dominick Dunne, isn't exactly glamorous. Much of it amounts to drudgery, staring at a computer screen all day in a room by yourself, juggling nouns and verbs to make a demanding editor happy.
-
I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out.
-
Success makes success, like money makes money.
