Honore de Balzac Quotes
We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the latter useful, and the human mind requires both. The cannon law and the codes of Justinian shall have due honor, and reign at the universities; but Homer and Virgil need not therefore be banished. We will cultivate the olive and the vine, but without eradicating the myrtle and the rose.
Honore de Balzac
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Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
Ian McKeever
When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
Samuel Fuller
When you're in college, you really don't know where you're going to end up, but you know who you want to be along that journey.
Dan Rosensweig
Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
Barbara Ehrenreich
As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
Sam Neill
I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
Rachel Nichols
I first went to India because of my interest in yoga, hoping to go to the Iyengar Centre in Pune for a while. That didn't work out, but I ended up on a beach in Goa, writing.
Damon Galgut
It doesn't get any more underground, conscious or indie than Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, but because they got a couple of really big pop hits, actually some of the biggest pop hits that hip-hop has ever seen, people are missing that part of their story. People are not counting that blessing.
Talib Kweli
Black Star
I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed.
Bebe Rexha
If you would attract good fortune, you must get rid of doubt. As long as that stands between you and your ambition, it will be a bar that will cut you off. You must have faith. No man can make a fortune while he is convinced that he can't.
Orison Swett Marden
I think Amy Poehler and Tina Fey have done so much for women in comedy in the sense that they've normalized it. You don't think, 'I'm going to watch that comedy starring a woman,' you think, 'I'm going to watch that funny show.' They refuse to play the foils for men, or be reduced to the butt of every joke, and I love that about both of them.
Tatiana Maslany
Endless effort, endless humility, endless modesty.
Rain
And I haven't read a lot of blogs but if someone writes about what they care about I'm sure it's interesting.
Uma Thurman
In cartoons and in improv, anything can happen. You can be any character you want. The rules of real life don't always apply.
Jack McBrayer
To be ignorant and to be deceived are two different things. To be ignorant is to be a slave of the world. To be deceived is to be the slave of another man. The question will always be: Why, when all men are ignorant, and therefore already slaves, does this latter slavery sting us so?
Richard Scott Bakker
Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs,” sighed George, patting the heading of the map. “We owe them so much.” “Noble men, working tirelessly to help a new generation of law-breakers,” said Fred solemnly.
Joanne Rowling
This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what was given, and the other ought never to forget what he has received.
Seneca the Younger
We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the latter useful, and the human mind requires both. The cannon law and the codes of Justinian shall have due honor, and reign at the universities; but Homer and Virgil need not therefore be banished. We will cultivate the olive and the vine, but without eradicating the myrtle and the rose.
Honore de Balzac