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.
Tamsin Greig -
At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.
Thebe Neruda Kgositsile -
I'm certainly relishing the idea of living a century. Can you imagine that? What an achievement.
Olivia De Havilland -
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.
A.J. Styles -
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke -
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.'
Barbara Ehrenreich
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I always do my own stunts, as much as possible. I'm a little stubborn about it.
Laura Vandervoort -
Always in life bad times will lead to great times.
M. Night Shyamalan -
I love the smell of a man's skin.
J. Courtney Sullivan -
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 -
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.
Ian Williams Battles -
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.
Rajneesh -
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.
Jack Osbourne -
The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth. p. 92
Irving Kirsch -
Average people didn't analyze what they thought: they thought they thought, and half of it was gut reaction.
C. J. Cherryh -
Idiots are not responsible for what they do. The real guilt falls on rational people who sit on their hands while the morons run wild. You can opt out if you want to. Play it safe. But if you do, don’t complain when the roof comes down.
Jack McDevitt -
...We are in one world. We are one nation. And therefore, what’s common in between us, what should be common among us, is love and peace.
Tawakkol Karman
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Our entire lives, we're inundated with media and messaging that tells us that to be incarcerated is to be criminal and to be criminal is to be a bad person.
Clint Smith -
I have always had a very natural connection to the water, and that connection stems from the ocean itself.
Aaron Peirsol -
It happens to me all the time. I have to drink more water. It has nothing to do with my elbow or shoulder.
Carlos Zambrano -
The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.
Rabindranath Tagore -
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