Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (Colette) Quotes

On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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• I had 45 amateur fights, and I was able to win two national titles in those three years as an amateur.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Years
  • Win
  • Three

• I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Heart
  • Desire
  • Independent

• I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Home
  • Change
  • Year

• All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Great
  • Today
  • Old

• We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.

  

  Orville Redenbacher
  • Money
  • More
  • Ever

• When 'Ice Ice Baby' was selling a million records a day, I bought several properties: a home next to Michael J. Fox in L.A., a palace in Miami and a mountain cabin in Utah. Then, a few years later, I took a break from touring, saw that my properties had cobwebs, so I sold them, and - to my surprise - I made a huge profit!

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Home
  • Day
  • Baby

• I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very simply.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Food
  • Like
  • Sometimes

• I'd like to think I'd never do a gratuitous fart joke.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Think
  • Like
  • Never

• If anyone was going to write the definitive account of what the 2008 election meant for women, it would be Rebecca Traister.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Women
  • Going
  • Election

• The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • Pain
  • Football
  • Season

• Cyrus was observed to have more docility than any of his years and to show more submission to those of an advanced age than any other children, though of a condition inferior to his own.

  

  Xenophon
  • Children
  • Age
  • Years

• America, for me, is the country where, if you have something great to offer, you'll be valued highly.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Country
  • Me
  • Offer

• I have a bag with a toothbrush and toothpaste and all the things I might need during the day. I call the bag my trailer. Sometimes you don't have a trailer, so that's my trailer.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Day
  • Sometimes
  • Bag

• I get this anxiety in cities and places like that. When you grow up in kind of a small town and when you grow up around a lot of green and trees and nature and that sort of thing, sometimes I think it's a little mentally disconcerting to be around this concrete.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Small

• I like shopping, and I like to drive.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • Like
  • Shopping
  • Drive

• My fans are like no other. Completely original people.

  

  Yelawolf
  • People
  • Like
  • Fans

• The morale when I came in was not the best. It was because the agency had not been valued.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Best
  • Agency
  • Morale

• Unused to the situations in which I find myself, and embarrassed by the slightest difficulties, I seldom, till too late, discover how I ought to act.

  

  Frances Burney

• When I get to 40, I'm going to re-evaluate everything and then go from there. Because when I get to 40, I would like to see where I'm at in my career because I might want to go, 'You know what, I'm done. I'm just happy with everything,' and I'm going to go off my merry way, and I'll probably never pick up a golf club ever again.

  

  Jason Day
  • Up
  • Done
  • Happy

• I think you know that I classify science as British science, American science, and everybody else.

  

  Martin Fleischmann
  • American
  • Science

• Sometimes it's nice to have a song that can be taken more then one way, so it can be interpreted differently.

  

  Geddy Lee Weinrib Rush
  • Song
  • Nice
  • Taken

• And, of all lies (be that one poet's boast) / The lie that flatters I abhor the most.

  

  William Cowper
  • Lying
  • Poet
  • Boast

• A real punk is punk on the inside.

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
  • Real
  • Punk

• On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath.

  

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
  • Dream
  • Choice
  • Planet