Honore de Balzac Quotes

Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

Honore de Balzac

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• Platinum for me signifies everlasting love, which needs to be celebrated in the most special way.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Love
  • Way
  • Special

• Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.

  

  Nas
  • You
  • Struggle
  • Appreciate

• I have one of these bodies. When I was younger, I could never put weight on, and now that I'm a little older, there's a natural sort of chubbiness coming. But honestly, if I work out for a week, it drops off in no time.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Time
  • Work
  • Week

• Once you're in a room like '30 Rock,' it's a creative setting, so you write more even after you go home, just because you're still in that mode of coming up with jokes. So the job wasn't sapping standup jokes, but it was sapping stand up time and energy, and I wouldn't be able to travel as much.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Up
  • Time
  • Home

• Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Perfect

• It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.

  

  Felix Bloch
  • Science
  • Human
  • Situation

• Every story makes a promise to the reader. Actually, two promises, one emotional and one intellectual, since the function of stories is to make us both feel and think.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Think
  • Emotional
  • Story

• When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • Up
  • Chance
  • Random

• To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Work
  • American
  • True

• Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Why
  • Together
  • Nature

• When I was 18, I left Dublin and moved to Paris. I didn't speak French. I didn't know anyone. I felt like a fish out of water.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Water
  • Speak
  • Paris

• Eating together is the most intimate form of kinship. By scripting a work where we share the same kind of food with fish, I'm scripting our interrelationship with them.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Work
  • Together
  • Food

• After the French Revolution, it was not the treason of the king that was in question; it was the existence of the king. You have to be very careful when you judge and execute somebody for being a symbol.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Question
  • King
  • Judge

• I don't necessarily need Hollywood.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Need
  • Hollywood
  • Necessarily

• Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Freedom
  • Walk
  • Away

• But working with Dre, I grew up with his music, so I'm still like more a fan.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Up
  • Music
  • Working

• If you distill the essence of everything, what life is about, every single one of us is given a short moment in time on this planet, and we all have one universal need and desire, and that is to be loved and to love. And to deny that for your own political expediency, I don't want to live in that column. It ain't worth it.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Life
  • Time
  • Desire

• Ray Harryhausen's 'Sinbad' picture was the first film I remember seeing. I was two years old when it came out, and it changed my life forever. I had nightmares about dragons and stuff for years - and loved it!

  

  Warren Spector
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Forever

• I'm a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they've made of me - and that I've made of myself - as a sex symbol. They expect bells to ring and whistles to whistle, but my anatomy is the same as any other woman's and I can't live up to it.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Men
  • Live
  • Woman

• No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

  

  Michael Ryan Pritchard Green Day
  • Die
  • Funeral
  • Weather

• I think it's probably true that creative people are touched by melancholy more than the average person, and to the extent that delving into that shadow world produces good work, I'm all for it. But I think you have to be able to step back from the work, and say, "Look how miserable I felt. Look how beautifully I wrote about it. Now I'm going to get an iced coffee and chat with a friend." Writing should be a way out of despair.

  

  David Starkey
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• The game was in our hands. We led for 46 minutes. It was a basic collapse by our team in the fourth quarter.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Game
  • Team
  • Hands

• In beloved Iraq, blood is flowing between brothers, in the shadow of an illegitimate foreign occupation, and abhorrent sectarianism threatens a civil war.

  

  Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
  • War
  • Shadow

• Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Die
  • Despair
  • Spirits