Simone Schwarz-Bart (Simone Brumant) Quotes

Only the knife knows what goes on in the heart of a pumpkin.

Simone Schwarz-Bart

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• Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Art
  • Drawing

• If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Great
  • Home
  • Doubt

• I'm going to do the old 'plaster removal' technique and just get the pain over with in one go: 'Life's Too Short' isn't funny to me.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Life
  • Funny
  • Pain

• My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.

  

  Madeline Carroll
  • Love
  • Football
  • Sports

• Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Women
  • Children
  • Practice

• Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Women
  • Common
  • Citizenship

• I wasn't, like, this top model; I was quietly doing my work, and when I became an actress, people started doing research, and everybody found out. People dug out photos, and suddenly people became interested - but no one was interested in my photos when I was a model.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • People
  • Work
  • Model

• My kids are in school and in all these clubs - chess club, fashion club, you name it. When my dad came home from work, it was late, and when he left, it was early in the morning. On my days off, I'm still taking my kids to school and picking them up. I do what I have to do to keep that relationship.

  

  Omar Dorsey
  • Up
  • Work
  • School

• I was young and so eager to make some money as well as get exposed and show my talent.

  

  Young Buck
  • Money
  • Young
  • Talent

• When it comes to age, I just feel like puberty is, like, the most horrible time of anyone's life.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Life
  • Time
  • Age

• We must get government out of the way and help foster an environment where small businesses are free to grow and create jobs.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Help
  • Free
  • Small

• The larger the German body, the smaller the German bathing suit and the louder the German voice issuing German demands and German orders to everybody who doesn't speak German. For this, and several other reasons, Germany is known as 'the land where Israelis learned their manners'.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • German

• The teenage female has less demand to perform and more resources to attract love. Her body and mind are more genetic gifts.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Mind

• Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Time
  • Good

• For me, I'm very visually inspired. I'm more inspired by photographs and movies than I am by listening to other music, so for me to create an amazingly intense visual live show is a dream, so I would love to be on that level for sure.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Music
  • Live
  • Dream

• What we really have to do is stop the adjective before the job title - whether it's 'black actor,' a 'gay actor' or anything actor.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Job
  • Black
  • Stop

• Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues.

  

  Gaylord Nelson

• Like every child growing up in America, I read 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and 'Huckleberry Finn.' I liked them well enough, but I didn't love them.

  

  Caroline Lawrence
  • Up
  • America
  • Growing

• While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the fundamental truth of his writing, his grand humility: that we frequently do not know our own motivations in life and are prisoners to what we cannot understand. We can recognize only a small fragment of our own, and an even smaller fragment of anyone else's, impetus.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Who made me laugh when I was growing was Chaplin and the Marx Brothers, and then moving on, there were so many that I was a writer for for many years: I was a writer for the Smothers Brothers, Lily Tomlin, then I started on 'Saturday Night Live' as the head writer the first year we started it.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • Live
  • Night
  • Growing

• I am not into method acting.

  

  Ali Fazal

• Twitter, Reddit, Tumblr, Instagram, all these companies are businesses first, but, as a close second, they’re demographers of unprecedented reach, thoroughness, and importance. Practically as an accident, digital data can now show us how we fight, how we love, how we age, who we are, and how we’re changing. All we have to do is look

  

  Christian Rudder
  • Importance
  • Twitter
  • Instagram

• Don't you know, priests, why our sermons do not touch the people's heart? Because we do not preach to the eyes, only to the ears.

  

  Antonio Vieira
  • People
  • Heart
  • Eye

• Only the knife knows what goes on in the heart of a pumpkin.

  

  Simone Schwarz-Bart
  • Heart
  • Knife
  • Pumpkin