Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
Dwelling-place and food are useful for life but give it no significance: the immediate goals of the housekeeper are only means, not true ends.
Quotes to Explore
-
Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
-
But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.
-
Comedy can be harder because if you aren't making the audience laugh, they're going to turn on you quicker. They'll go along with mediocre drama more than they'll go along with mediocre comedy.
-
The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
-
In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
-
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
-
I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
-
Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do. This kind of talk sounds great in the boardroom, and, for that matter, in the bookstore, where dozens of authors counsel would-be corporate warriors.
-
Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
-
The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
-
When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
-
I'm the only person in this sport, for the most part, that ain't on steroids. Now there's new rules in effect, yeah, you've got guys not on steroids now, but they used to be. They've always been on steroids.
-
You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.
-
World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
-
I will know him by his eyes.
-
See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.
-
Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.
-
Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.
-
I don't think anyone sets out to do something bad, it's just that it's very difficult.
-
It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts.
-
Every makeup artist or stylist with whom I work has many special ideas, tips, and creations. I can always learn so much from them.
-
My love for the theater has always been a priority. That hasn't changed. I got into acting that way. The film work that came up was really a surprise.
-
Knowledge by suffering entereth,And life is perfected by death.
-
Dwelling-place and food are useful for life but give it no significance: the immediate goals of the housekeeper are only means, not true ends.
