Honore de Balzac Quotes
The innocence of virgins is like milk which turns when exposed to a clap of thunder, to a tart smell, to a hot day, to the merest nothing.
Honore de Balzac
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I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.
Eden Ahbez
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The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
Victor Hugo
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If I can reach the guy in Alabama that hunts, and he hears that song, and he sees me - like, he's comfortable with me, my image as a person, as an artist - he's willing to sit down and give that song a chance.
Luke Combs
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The greatest thing about the call-in show is that you always felt like you were on a high wire without a net.
Brian Lamb
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I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a poet.
Alice Eve
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My career aspirations as an actor have always been driven foremost by the creative desire to be versatile.
Jimmy Smits
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The thunder of love is unassailable.
Ted Baillieu
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Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries not by definition in terms of experience, but simply as irreducible posits comparable, epistemologically, to the gods of Homer . . . For my part I do, qua lay physicist, believe in physical objects and not in Homer's gods; and I consider it a scientific error to believe otherwise. But in point of epistemological footing, the physical objects and the gods differ only in degree and not in kind. Both sorts of entities enter our conceptions only as cultural posits.
Willard Van Orman Quine
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When I was very young I was reading a lot of Latin American fiction, which later would be called "boom fiction."
Sandra Cisneros
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The innocence of virgins is like milk which turns when exposed to a clap of thunder, to a tart smell, to a hot day, to the merest nothing.
Honore de Balzac