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

• 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

• Most of us... are simply just trying to get through the day. And wait for those times in their life that are markers, that put things into relief. That's why we like movies and books so much.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Why

• 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

• To attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; and…though we live all our lives in expectation of better things, we often at the same time long regretfully for what is past. The present, on the other hand, is regarded as something quite temporary and serving only as the road to our goal. That is why most men discover when they look back on their life that they have the whole time been living ad interim, and are surprised to see that which they let go by so unregarded and unenjoyed was precisely their life, was precisely in expectation of which they lived.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Past
  • Goal
  • Discover

• Anyone who's gotten their passport in America will tell you, when you get it, it still says what country you were born in. So I remember getting my American passport. I was like, 'Woo-hoo! I'm going to travel.' And I opened it up. It said, 'Born in Iran.' I'm like, 'Oh, come on, man!'

  

  Maz Jobrani
  • Up
  • Country
  • Remember

• My goal is always the same: to keep the other player from ever scoring a point. That doesn't always happen, but that's what I try for.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Player
  • Goal
  • Same

• Well, I think one doesn't really have to invent this memorial space, because it is already there. And it is speaking with a voice and, you know, 4 million of us came to see the site.

  

  Daniel Libeskind
  • Space
  • Memorial

• My whole goal is to heal the entire planet. People say, 'I want to change the world.' You can change the world for better or for worse. I want to heal the whole world like a superhero would do.

  

  Jaden Smith
  • People
  • World
  • Superhero

• 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