Honore de Balzac Quotes
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.Honore de Balzac
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
Adam Baldwin -
But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.
Carly Fiorina -
There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
Rachel Weisz -
Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.
Sam Brownback -
My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
A. S. Byatt -
My emergence has been slow and steady, I would say. I think I've improved every single year. I keep getting better; I keep getting fitter, sharper - and I'm not stopping.
Carli Lloyd
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
Harold Nicolson -
I played with Michy for Belgium. He is still young; he can finish and is very good. He just needs to adapt to English football, and he will. He is intelligent and a good player.
Eden Hazard -
The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
Farrah Fawcett -
But I think we need the international market.
Zhang Yimou -
From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
Francesca Annis -
I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
M. J. Rose -
Thumbs up to the buxom woman. Size zero is boring!
Vidya Balan -
Starting in the third grade, my dad had me read the 'Denver Post.' I had to discuss two articles with him before dinner, and we would also watch '60 Minutes' together.
Dana Perino -
I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty and triumph, the thing about which she was unquestionably the proudest and most excited was that she and her family did their part during the war.
J. D. Vance -
Nobody has ever convinced me that ancient aliens have visited Earth. Not even close.
Dan Brown -
When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.
Kalpana Chawla
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When I was 14, I thought I looked terrible. I wore these typical Slavic shoes with metal bottoms so you could always hear me coming and this really ugly princess skirt and blouse with the top button closed. I had a boy haircut, a baby face covered with pimples, and a really big nose.
Marina Abramovic -
When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
Kate Bernheimer -
Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules. - Mr. Spencer
J. D. Salinger -
It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.
Jack Black -
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
Honore de Balzac