Honore de Balzac Quotes
Bankers are lynxes. To expect any gratitude from them is equivalent to attempting to move the wolves of the Ukraine to pity in the middle of winter.Honore de Balzac
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I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self.
Olivia Thirlby -
If you're not acting, you're not an actor.
Lance Henriksen -
I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder.
Gavin Bryars -
No, I don't believe in genius. I believe in freedom. I think anyone can do it. Anyone can be like Rembrandt.
Damien Hirst -
Music is the reason I started talking to people. When I started singing in bars and trains, I began to learn the behaviour of people. Music was the bait that helped me get something from them and give myself to them.
Benjamin Clementine -
I became obnoxious to the Jacobins because I reprobated their aristocracy, which aimed at usurping all legitimate authority.
Marquis de Lafayette
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There are three things being a celebrity is good for: raising money for charity, dinner reservations and tee times.
Dennis Quaid -
Given that the biggest rise in childhood obesity rates are occurring in children ages 3 to 5 years, we must modify our efforts to place an emphasis on prevention versus intervention.
Darell Hammond -
I tried painting for a short time and realized that I was not a child prodigy at painting.
Kim Weston -
I like going to the gym every day.
Frank Bruno -
I felt like there were so many talented people who should be getting what I have.
Shawn Mendes -
I always say the best applause you can get is when you walk from backstage up to your microphone at a concert. It's also nice to walk up to the mike at an awards show, and that applause is great, too, but the best is when your fans are cheering for you.
Dierks Bentley
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Well, certainly I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives.
John le Carre -
I was never a very dependable employee for anything. Perfect for the actor's life!
John C. Reilly -
An all-rounder is someone who can make it to the team purely on the basis of his batting or bowling. Not both.
Garfield Sobers -
There is a child in all of us, a person who believes in a glorious future.
Jasmine Guy -
Fly Heisenberg Airlines – we don’t know where we are, but we’re making damned good time.
Pat Cadigan -
Reality is only a term, based on values and well worn principles, whereas the dream goes on forever.
Ian Curtis Joy Division
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It is all too easy to draw conclusions and make sweeping judgments about millions of Muslim women based on fleeting television images. That is not right.
Queen Rania of Jordan -
I use iPod all the time, almost every day. It's great.
Casey Neistat -
Printing up extra money - with no backing - used to be the sort of thing only counterfeiters did. Now it is done by the central bankers and Treasury Secretaries themselves. They don't apologize for it. They don't hang their heads and contemplate blowing their brains out. Instead, they're proud of it... announcing that they 'saved civilization,' or some such claptrap.
Bill Bonner -
The senior bankers have obviously decided that it is in their financial interest to repeatedly violate the law.
William K. Black -
Raven. Makes me think of werewolves. Do you think a man can change into an animal? Alexander - If he's with the right girl.
Ellen Schreiber -
Bankers are lynxes. To expect any gratitude from them is equivalent to attempting to move the wolves of the Ukraine to pity in the middle of winter.
Honore de Balzac