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

• Travel
• Resolve
• Collect

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• 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

• I believe that a politician needs to be with people.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • People
  • Believe
  • I Believe

• 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

• We never set up Yandex to imitate what others were doing. We've been in the business longer than other search engines and have created many original products.

  

  Arkady Volozh
  • Up
  • Business
  • Search

• the success of a holiday depends on what you find for yourself on the spot, not what you bring with you.

  

  Ellis Peters
  • Success
  • Travel
  • Holiday

• One day Anton Rieder, my old crush from high school, sat down next to me. He had been fatherless since we were kids. He knew the feeling—the loss of direction, the insecurity, the premature aging. “You are still beautiful,” he said. “And you were always gallant.” “I’ve enrolled at the Consular Academy. I’m going there not because I am so eager to be a diplomat, but because they have given me a scholarship.” “But it will be wonderful for you, Anton. You will be able to travel, maybe even go to England or America.” “Come with me.” “What?” “I know you go with Pepi Rosenfeld, but believe me, he’s too smart for his own good—his brains will always get in the way of his conscience. He’s not fine enough for you. I have always been in love with you; you know that. Leave him and come with me. I have nothing. Now your father is dead, and you have nothing. We’ll be perfect together.” He reached across the library table and took my hand. He was so handsome, so earnest. For a moment, I thought: “Maybe. Why not?” And then of course all the reasons why not spilled onto the long oak table, and Anton could not fail to see them there; and like a wise young diplomat, he rose and kissed my hand and took his leave.

  

  Edith Hahn Beer
  • Kids
  • Travel
  • Direction

• Pilates is phenomenal.

  

  Andre Ward

• 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