Honore de Balzac Quotes

Are not poets men who fulfill their hopes prematurely?

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• It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Control
  • Problem
  • Yourself

• Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.

  

  Felix Adler
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• I believe people have to follow their dreams - I did.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • People
  • Believe
  • Dreams

• I suppose I sometimes used to act like I wasn't a human being... Sometimes I look back at myself and remember things I used to say, or my hairstyle, and I cringe.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Remember
  • Myself
  • Sometimes

• It's going to be a big topic of discussion.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Conversation
  • Discussion
  • Topic

• Timing has a lot to with art.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Art
  • Timing

• There are volumes and libraries of information in our minds and we are continually weighing information. We hear new things, we compare it with things we've heard before, and we take from it what we feel is pertinent and throw away what we feel isn't necessary.

  

  Kai Greene
  • Mind
  • Information
  • Library

• The second half of the 20th century was a golden age of molecular biology, and it was one of the golden ages of the history of science. Molecular biology was so successful and made such a powerful alliance with the medical scientists that the two together just flourished. And they continue to flourish.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Together
  • History
  • Age

• The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Music
  • Kind
  • Musician

• And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Hope
  • Pride
  • Forward

• The air campaign is going to continue, ... The Yugoslav government hasn't done anything positive.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Government
  • Positive
  • Air Campaign

• Whether it's boxing, basketball, or badminton, one must be ready to succeed before entering the arena...long before the lights come up.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Succeed
  • Boxing
  • Arena

• Ultimately, the film industry has always pushed out its biggies, and I don't have a problem with that. I just wish that we'd spend more time nurturing the smaller ones.

  

  John Hurt
  • Time
  • Wish

• I am a great believer in planning- economic, social, political, military, total world planning.

  

  Nelson Rockefeller
  • World
  • Political
  • Military

• If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a bad poet committing suicide? The reader is only a little better off. The exhilaration of a good poem lasts twenty minutes, an hour at most. Unlike the scientist, the artist has reentry problems that are frequent and catastrophic.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Suicide

• Growing up, I was fascinated with Buck Rogers' airplanes. As I began to mature in World War II, it became jets and rocket planes. But it was always in the air.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Up
  • World
  • War

• That's like the fourth time I've been called a women in this past hour. It's really starting to boost my self-esteem.

  

  Drew Chadwick Emblem3
  • Past
  • Hours
  • Esteem

• Are not poets men who fulfill their hopes prematurely?

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Poets
  • Hopes
  • Prematurely