Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (Colette) Quotes

The word 'pure' has never revealed an intelligent meaning to me. I can only use the word to quench an optical thirst for purity in the transparencies that evoke it - in bubbles, in a volume of water, and in the imaginary latitudes entrenched, beyond reach, at the very center of a dense crystal.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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• When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.

  

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• Whenever I did sitcoms, that always happened on your show. Once the show was on the air, it takes on a life of its own. It develops, and it becomes something else.

  

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• At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.

  

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• I'm certainly relishing the idea of living a century. Can you imagine that? What an achievement.

  

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• There's plenty of people who've never gotten the opportunity to wrestle at WrestleMania. To perform there and do that, I never thought it would ever happen. I had learned to live with it. So to say I did, that is a big notch in my belt.

  

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• No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

  

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• Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an 'ethic.'

  

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• I always do my own stunts, as much as possible. I'm a little stubborn about it.

  

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• Always in life bad times will lead to great times.

  

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• I love the smell of a man's skin.

  

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• We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It's just beginning. When I think of the possibilities, it makes me smile.

  

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• As the spiritual leader of six million people, the Dalai Lama can be credited with a significant renunciation of the authority of tradition - of the conventional politics of national self-interest as well as of religion.

  

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• Tantra is a great yea-sayer; it says yes to everything.

  

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• I'm not sure I have a role model per se, but I do deeply admire every woman who raises children and has to walk for water.

  

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• If in the well and truly made martini DeVoto finds "water of life" and the blessing to the spirit, so also DeVoto's The Hour brings to its readers the breath of life and a vision of themselves made generous, indomitable and wise.

  

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• The thorough bred against a clamor, or rather the Porsche vs. the pickup truck.

  

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• The word 'pure' has never revealed an intelligent meaning to me. I can only use the word to quench an optical thirst for purity in the transparencies that evoke it - in bubbles, in a volume of water, and in the imaginary latitudes entrenched, beyond reach, at the very center of a dense crystal.

  

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
  • Water
  • Reach
  • Imaginary