Honore de Balzac Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
-
Our entire film fraternity should be proud of 'Baahubali.' These are the kind of films that are not made very often.
-
Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.
-
I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.
-
I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and around the margins. You like peach ice cream; I like strawberry ice cream. Both of us like ice cream much better than a smack on the head with two-by-four.
-
I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
-
Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.
-
I work out at home. I don't have a gym, but I use light weights. I do calisthenics, which is basically using your own body weight, like you do in yoga, to strengthen your core. I also do a bit of cardio.
-
I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.
-
My parents were ordinary people; we lived in a small apartment.
-
Do people ever ask me to say 'Wow?' Never in interviews, but a few times on the street. I don't do it. I try to get away from them as quickly as possible and explain that I'm not a performing seal.
-
Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.
-
Some players don't like training and I've seen some players who aren't bothered if they play or not. But I want to play every game. Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
-
And I think the blessing of heaven is on Bush. It's just the way it is.
-
I really feel like I honed in on a sound and a style of writing that best fits me.
-
If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
-
You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like it, then it is what it is.'
-
Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.
-
Islam is not a religion of peace. It's a political theory of conquest that seeks domination by any means it can.
-
People without fathers tend to have two predominant characteristics. They tend to believe anything is possible. At the same time there's an anxiety and an unending insecurity. It's a very American thing because back in the past, we lost our fathers or father. The king.
-
I understand that a lot of girls feel encouraged by what I have been able to do, but I've never felt like I'm a role model. I'm not concerned with building a great legacy or anything because I'll be dead so it won't matter.
-
It's great that Time is moving in the direction of validating those who, by choice or circumstance, will never be parents. But the point is not simply that society should stop judging those of us who don't have children. It's that society actually needs us. Children need us.
-
Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'
-
There is something great and terrible about suicide.
