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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• I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.

  

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

  

  Tamsin Greig
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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.

  

  Edmund Burke
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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.

  

  Barry White
  • Music
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• I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I play the twang of the string, which is a lot closer to the source of the sound making.

  

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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.

  

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

  

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• I go to a meeting every day. I surround myself with people who don't use. I recently got back from Ozzfest and I caught myself in kind of a sticky situation where I was around a lot of people using, drinking and it was kind of - I didn't have the urge to use once, but I just knew I shouldn't have been there.

  

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• Your mother embarrasses you in front of maybe a couple hundred people. My mother embarrasses me in front of millions.

  

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• For those of you who thought F. W. Murnau's 'Nosferatu' was his greatest film, I have news for you: his 'Faust' blows it out of the water.

  

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• Cooking is one of the strongest ceremonies for life. When recipes are put together, the kitchen is a chemical laboratory involving air, fire, water and the earth. This is what gives value to humans and elevates their spiritual qualities. If you take a frozen box and stick it in the microwave, you become connected to the factory.

  

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• If I had a horse of my own that I loved and fed and knew me, it would be amazing.

  

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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