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.

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• Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Great
  • Art
  • Traditions

• 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.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Important
  • Think

• 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.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Audience

• The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • American
  • Think
  • Boy

• We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Know
  • Person
  • Actions

• I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Times
  • Many
  • Performed

• Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Home
  • Most

• The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Important
  • Create
  • 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.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Music
  • Business
  • Deep

• 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.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Always
  • Rules
  • Now

• You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • You
  • Know
  • Never

• 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.

  

  M. John Harrison
  • World
  • Great
  • Done

• I will know him by his eyes.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Know
  • Eyes
  • Will

• See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Free
  • See
  • 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.

  

  Ada Cambridge
  • Law
  • Eyes
  • Justice

• Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Bad
  • Day
  • Fame

• I love Christopher Bailey and Burberry, Mulberry for bags, and Hudson for jeans.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Jeans

• I've been listening to a lot of music by Arca.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Listening
  • Lot

• What's the worst that could happen? You're going to come second or lose? It's not like someone has got a gun to your head.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Gun
  • Lose
  • Worst

• Life is short,and pleasures few,and holed the ship,and drowned the crew,But O! But O!How very bluethe sea is!

  

  Clive Barker
  • Life
  • Sea

• I think as a human being, as a mother, as someone who works internationally, I needed desperately to know a man like Louis Zamperini in my life, to know that there is hope.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • Men
  • Thinking

• However, if you do start crying in an argument and someone asks why, you can always say, 'I'm just crying because of how wrong you are.'

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Why
  • Wrong
  • Crying

• 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.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Life
  • Goals
  • Means