Honore de Balzac Quotes

Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.

Honore de Balzac

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• I think that when we look at something that's well acted and a story that's well told, it allows us to be a mirror of who we are as human beings and as a culture, and offers a glimpse of where we're headed.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Think
  • Culture
  • Mirror

• I guess it was but I think peoples morality has changed. It's gotten more liberal and more diverse and even in a sense much more fundamental, you take the fundamental religious right in this country, its got to go back about 50 years.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Country
  • Think
  • Religious

• I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Music
  • Believe
  • American

• I was made fun of at a young age. I would fight a lot in the streets, and it has a lot to do with the way I am today. It helped my development as a fighter, but what can I say?

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Fun
  • Age
  • Today

• People's genes can say a great deal about their health. There are genes that reveal an increased likelihood of getting cancer, heart disease or Alzheimer's.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Great
  • Heart

• One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.

  

  Larry Wall

• 'I shall soon be rested,' said Fanny; 'to sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure, is the most perfect refreshment.'

  

  Jane Austen
  • Perfect

• Heights make my feet tingle; not sure if that is a phobia, but it isn't the greatest feeling.

  

  Charlie Rowe
  • Feeling

• The premise of 'Descent' may sound pretty straightforward: One summer morning while vacationing with her family in the foothills of the Rockies, a young girl, a high-school athlete in her senior year, goes out for a run in the higher altitudes - and disappears.

  

  Alan Cheuse
  • School
  • Family
  • May

• She was chronologically in luck. She corresponded to necessity.

  

  Lincoln Kirstein
  • She
  • Luck

• A lot of what I've done as Nine Inch Nails has been governed by fear. I was trying to keep the songs in a framework that was tough, and I learnt a lot from Jesus and Mary Chain about how to bury nice pop songs in unlistenable noise - the idea being if you can get behind that wall, you find there's a pearl inside.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Trying
  • Done
  • Fear

• My mom convinced me to audition for 'The X Factor.' And I just said, 'O.K., let me see what it's about. $5 million? Might as well try.' I tried out, and it worked out. I got through top seven out of 200,000, so I'm proud.

  

  Astro
  • Mom
  • Proud

• Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.

  

  Emma Goldman
  • Great
  • Vision

• Television is a golden goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar. Anyway, more people like scrambled eggs than caviar.

  

  Lee Loevinger
  • People

• In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli.

  

  Jerome Bruner
  • Perception

• I have done so much for hip-hop and 'til this day, I haven't received any awards or any recognition for it.

  

  Luther Campbell
  • Done

• Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.

  

  Andrew Weil
  • People
  • Food
  • Kitchen

• We think we want enjoyment, and that enjoyment is incompatible with work, and somehow we have to import the pleasure into these miserable experiences. That takes for granted that there's not fun or play to be found in the work itself.

  

  Ian Bogost
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Fun

• Wonder what it’s like to have a peaceful life,” Ron sighed, as evening after evening they struggled through all the extra homework they were getting.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Life
  • Wonder
  • Peaceful

• Venus, thy eternal sway All the race of men obey. Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis. He is not a lover who does not love for ever.

  

  Euripides
  • Love
  • Race
  • Venus

• If true religion is to beam upon us, our principle must be, that it is necessary to begin with heavenly teaching, and that it is impossible for any man to obtain even the minutest portion of right and sound doctrine without being a disciple of Scripture.

  

  John Calvin
  • Religion
  • Teaching
  • Scripture

• We're a young species; We're only 175,000 years old. On the evolutionary scale, life on this planet is 4 billion years old. We're 175,000 years old. So we're trying something out. Who wouldn't think it would be better to have the most stuff to take as much as you could? As we do that, we see why the moral prophets come along and say, don't even store into barns, right? It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle than a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. We've seen we plunder nature. We plunder our neighbor. We create enemies because we're against each other.

  

  Tom Shadyac
  • Trying
  • Heaven
  • Moral

• Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Delightful
  • Novelty
  • Deceptive