Honore de Balzac Quotes

A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a vice.

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• While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • World
  • Good
  • Real

• Working with children has done well for me. I don't find them intolerable or frustrating. They're just fun, full of energy, and happy to be there.

  

  Beck Bennett
  • Children
  • Fun
  • Happy

• I realised I'd been spoiled at Liverpool. We were used to winning. In Italy I grew up as a person. I didn't enjoy the football, mind. It was very defensive, but I became a better player because of the work I had to do around the box. Off the pitch, I learned about what to eat and what to drink to be successful, and I learned about life.

  

  Ian Rush
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• There are not 'many sides' in the fight against hatred and bigotry. There is only right and wrong.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Fight
  • Sides
  • Hatred

• Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from 'hurry sickness.' Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Practice
  • Journey

• Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Men
  • Find

• If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything like that before: single-string blues played on an electric guitar.

  

  B. B. King
  • Me
  • Single
  • Woman

• 'Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas every day, we read novels by the millions, and buy records by the billions. 'We the people' affect the making and quality of most of our culture, but not our art.'

  

  Banksy
  • People
  • Art
  • Success

• One thing that's certain about going outdoors: When you come back inside, you'll be scratching.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Thing
  • Certain
  • Inside

• No one was praying for the night to pass quickly. The stars were but sparks of the immense conflagration that was consuming us. Were this conflagration to be extinguished one day, nothing would be left in the sky but extinct stars and unseeing eyes.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Night
  • Eyes
  • Sky

• An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • World
  • Wall

• I don't make films, and because I don't make films, I'm not an expert in the craft of bringing a film into the world, how you put its various pieces together. But where I feel like I'm an expert is my own feelings in response to a film.

  

  Leslie Jamison
  • World
  • Together

• No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca

• What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

  

  Plutarch
  • Reality

• I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.

  

  James Broughton
  • Writing

• In St. Louis, some people were hurt seriously when some fans got on top of a roof that was where other fans were underneath it, at a park somewhere, and it collapsed.

  

  Phil Lesh Grateful Dead
  • People
  • Hurt

• I'm happy with my place in the firmament here. I like to produce movies and that's where I want to be.

  

  Joel Silver
  • Happy

• Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Men
  • Silence

• I had no idea that social networking would be as prominent as it is today. And it's important to understand what that phenomenon is. If you text someone, you get an immediate response; if you e-mail them, you probably never hear from them.

  

  John Morgridge
  • Important
  • Today
  • Text

• I have a really, really strong work ethic and I learned that from my dad because my dad was a workaholic but he always had even more time for us. As hard as he would work, he always made the time. So it's just about balancing family, I think, and work - and giving everything 100%. And that's what he taught me.

  

  Tori Spelling
  • Family
  • Learned
  • Workaholic

• Man is too quick at forming conclusions.

  

  Edward E. Barnard
  • Man
  • Conclusions

• That roguish and cheerful vice, politeness.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Vice
  • Politeness
  • Roguish

• Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman, I care not what his stamp may be in society; I care not what clothes he wears, or what culture he boasts.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Society
  • Culture
  • Gentleman

• A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a vice.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Vice
  • Rent
  • Mishap