Honore de Balzac Quotes

Life in clubs is no paltry sign of the times we live in. Here gentlemen gamble with others whom they would not dream of inviting to their homes.

Honore de Balzac

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• I'm known for having crazy shoes. I have a total Napoleon complex - I'm only 5'4", and every heel I have is four inches or more.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Crazy
  • Shoes
  • Napoleon

• Women are blessed with energy - a power which is unique. I have been very fortunate to have played strong women and explored their strengths through my films.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Women
  • Power
  • Strong

• I feel pressure, but my emotions just don't show that much in my face.

  

  Inbee Park
  • Feel
  • Pressure
  • Emotions

• For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Good
  • Career
  • Actors

• I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Women
  • Book
  • Creativity

• My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • American
  • House
  • Looks

• The realities are, there are - you can be entertaining and you can be fun, and you can say things that actually appeal to people. You still have to figure out a way to get to 270 electoral votes. Get votes in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Fun
  • You

• I just did a spread in 'Maxim', I'm 35 years old. I've had women and parents email me asking if I should really be doing that, since I'm still considered a role model.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Women
  • Parents
  • Me

• It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.

  

  Washed Out
  • Song
  • Interesting
  • Easy

• What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.

  

  Ursus Wehrli
  • Work
  • Art
  • Change

• I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Love
  • City
  • Creativity

• The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Reason
  • Enemy
  • Grandparents

• I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Good And Bad

• I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an R and B band.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Music
  • Band
  • Study

• All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Great
  • Today
  • Old

• I heard the new film, 'Tangerine,' was filmed entirely on iPhones. No cameras were involved!

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Film
  • New
  • Involved

• LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Circumstances
  • Shot
  • Off

• I think it's good to conquer the fears.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Good
  • Think
  • Conquer

• I really wish I had invented the flip-flop. I love flip-flops. It's the one style of shoe I would be so proud of inventing: the Havaiana.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Wish
  • Proud
  • Style

• Every time you have a new tax, or every time you have to pay really an inordinate amount for a regulation, it's really stifling this country and really stifling American business.

  

  John Raese
  • Time
  • Country
  • Business

• The preacher's sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Work
  • Delicate
  • Preachers

• Sitting at our back doorsteps, all we need to live a good life lies about us. Sun, wind, people, buildings, stones, sea, birds and plants surround us. Cooperation with all these things brings harmony, opposition to them brings disaster and chaos.

  

  Bill Mollison
  • Life
  • Chaos
  • Harmony

• Life in clubs is no paltry sign of the times we live in. Here gentlemen gamble with others whom they would not dream of inviting to their homes.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Gentlemen