Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (Colette) Quotes

I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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• People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Work
  • House

• Power is the by-product of understanding.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Power
  • Understanding

• May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild beasts, wrenching of bones, mangling of limbs – let them come to me, provided only I make my way to Jesus Christ.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • Way
  • Fire
  • Jesus Christ

• A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Music
  • Know

• I was lucky enough to have parents with a huge film library. My mum is a huge Bollywood film geek. When we were kids, we would watch Indian films with her as well as Chinese and Japanese films. My father was more into the classics, American films, and also Hitchcock films.

  

  Jacky Ido
  • Kids
  • American
  • Father

• I want to have an impact on my son.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Want
  • Son
  • Impact

• It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Me
  • Play
  • Album

• You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Understanding

• I like to control my own personal life.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Life
  • Control
  • Like

• I am fortunate enough with my career that I can speak out to the masses and hopefully be a part of initiating change.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Career
  • Change
  • Speak

• Some people call me scrappy - and that's because I am.

  

  Karen Handel
  • People
  • Scrappy

• A city, far from being a cluster of buildings, is actually a sequence of spaces enclosed and defined by buildings.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • City
  • Far
  • Buildings

• For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world. Thrillers like 'Coma,' 'The Hunt for Red October' and 'The Firm' all captivated me by providing glimpses into realms about which I knew very little - medical science, submarine technology and the law.

  

  Dan Brown
  • World
  • Good
  • Real

• I have moments of darkness, of anger, and moments of rage. They do creep up at the most inopportune times. Not to recognize that in my music would give people a sense of sainthood that I don't necessarily have or even want to have.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• I can't say I gave up totally my passion for women but almost.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • Up
  • Women
  • Passion

• No matter what people say, about what I did, about what I am like... They say you are not dedicated or hardworking. A lot of people say things about me, but they don't realise I have played 250 games. It's not like you just land up in the team, sit down and play 250 games. You can't survive like that in international cricket.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Team
  • Games
  • Cricket

• I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Good
  • Political
  • Never

• I've been lucky enough to travel the world and win awards and medals, but it was time to stop.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Time
  • World
  • Stop

• Jezanna: Uh... lotta memories here, huh, dad?Albert: Remember this burn mark on the baseboard, from the time you stuck that piece of Erector Set in the outlet? You were always poking into something.Audrey: Mmm, girl!

  

  Alison Bechdel
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Girl

• Why do we use flash at all? Because photography is not the same as eyesight. We can see in low-light situations where cameras, dependent upon a physical process to record visual information, are half blind.

  

  David Hewson
  • Why
  • Light
  • Photography

• I love to travel, I love to go out with my friends, but what I love most is being home with my family.

  

  Deborah Raney
  • Family
  • Home
  • Friends

• Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.

  

  Lynda Barry
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Fool

• We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Things
  • Order
  • Realm

• I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.

  

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
  • Travel
  • Resolve
  • Collect