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

• 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 am attached to an incredible script called 'Wonder Drug,' about the DES drug disaster. It's a female-based drama, and I am so proud to be a part of because hopefully it will help evoke change - not only in our industry, but in the battle again corruption in big pharma.

  

  Alysia Reiner
  • Help
  • Proud
  • Wonder

• People can tell you what to do, but ultimately, we're all going to die, so how do you want to live?

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • People
  • Die
  • Want To Live

• I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Travel

• I kind of make my life an open book as long as the left exists to use Saul Alinsky tactics to destroy people, your background is going to be fair game. If you're a human being who has behaved as a human, they're going to use anything that you've done wrong against you. I've lived my public life as openly as possible so that they can't rip something out of my closet to use against me.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • People
  • Life
  • Long

• Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

  

  William James
  • Success
  • Positive
  • Successful

• 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