Hippolyte Taine Quotes

His tongue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what is proper.

Hippolyte Taine

Hippolyte Taine

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I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.

Victoria Principal
- Great
- Men
- Business
I don't quite know how to put it into words, but I feel for the audience that I have; I know them.

Idina Menzel
- Words
- Know
- Audience
I used to not like being called a 'woman architect': I'm an architect, not just a woman architect. Guys used to tap me on the head and say, 'You are okay for a girl.' But I see the incredible amount of need from other women for reassurance that it could be done, so I don't mind that at all.

Zaha Hadid
- Women
- Mind
- Done
The people that are fans of animation are really the people that are keeping the art form of animation alive. If you like cartoons, support the cartoons.

Kari Wahlgren
- People
- Art
- Support
Ballet dancers are a self-chosen elite. To survive and surmount years of disciplinary preparation and seasons of even more arduous performance requires rigid determination and almost mindless self-abnegation. One other factor is difficult to predetermine: without a certain admixture of hysteria - sometimes masking as self-obsession, sometimes even counterfeiting incipient madness - performers, at once acrobats, artists, and animals, make little public impression.

Lincoln Kirstein
It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.

B. C. Forbes
- Democracy
- Progress