Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
Simone de Beauvoir
Quotes to Explore
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One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.
Nathan Myhrvold
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I love to eat. If I could eat everything in the world and still be healthy or wouldn't catch a heart attack or stroke, I'd eat everything. I just can't. So I got to watch my health and take care of my family.
Fat Joe
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The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things that can be your Achilles heel. But if you don't need money and you don't need fame, then you're free.
Dana Carvey
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Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.
Larry Gagosian
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The short English miles are delightful for walking. You are always pleased to find, every now and then, in how short a time you have walked a mile, though, no doubt, a mile is everywhere a mile, I walk but a moderate pace, and can accomplish four English miles in an hour.
Karl Philipp Moritz
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Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.
Salman Rushdie
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Apart from cheese and tulips, the main product of the country is advocaat, a drink made from lawyers.
Alan Coren
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If you cannot find the truth within yourself, where else do you expect to find it?
Dogen
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Oh, it's essential. I mean, you have to - if I'm writing about the Middle East, I have to go there, and if possible, stay long enough to get a real feeling for what's going on.
Joe Sacco
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From my earliest acquaintance with the science of political economy, it has been evident to my mind that capital was the product of labor, and that therefore, in its best analysis there could be no natural conflict between capital and labor.
Leland Stanford
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Every city has a town outside with a lake. I pull out my fishing pole and fish. I've been doing that for a long time.
Brandi Carlile
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Opportunities present themselves every day - to everyone. You just have to be alert and ready to act.
Marc Ostrofsky
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The original text of New York is all below Chambers Street.
Pete Hamill
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I have to confess that I have so rarely experienced triumph that I cannot claim to know it well enough to judge, but it seems to be at best a momentary joy followed instantly by sadness, and, then, of necessity, by wariness.
Mark Helprin
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Clothes are particularly hard to value. While cars and high-tech gadgets - Maseratis, Audemars Piguet watches, and first-generation iPhones - offer not only performance but the cachet of a visibly rich item, clothing does less to convey what you spent on it. Clothes get stained and snagged, and they go out of style quickly.
Christina Binkley
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A friend is someone who supports you. And these people are buying tickets at outrageous ticket prices. If that ain't support, I don't know what is.
Brantley Gilbert
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Academics, who work for long periods in a self-directed fashion, may be especially prone to putting things off: surveys suggest that the vast majority of college students procrastinate, and articles in the literature of procrastination often allude to the author's own problems with finishing the piece.
James Surowiecki
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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
Simone de Beauvoir
