Honore de Balzac Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I always start a play by calling the characters A, B, and C.
-
When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and White Minstrel' Shows.
-
There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so when nice things happen to you, you're not really allowed to enjoy them.
-
When you're on TV, you come into people's homes. In theater and film, they go to you - to the temple of the cinema or theater. And it's very different.
-
The discovery that the universe has no purpose need not prevent a human being from having one.
-
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
-
An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
-
The simple practice of hesitation helps you stop reacting blindly to everything that happens.
-
Harry, just go down to the lake tomorrow, right, stick your head in, yell at the merpeople to give back whatever they’ve nicked, and see if they chuck it out. Best you can do, mate.
-
The only sin is stupidity.
-
What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.
-
Sex when you're married is like going to the 7-Eleven: There's not much variety, but at three in the morning, it's always there.
-
Dear Jesus...how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here.
-
The great, God-blessed churches in the world today have one common characteristic: an insistence upon an exposition of God's infallible Word.
-
It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
-
If tribulation is a necessary element in redemption, we must anticipate that it will never cease till God sees the world to be either redeemed or no further redeemable.
-
Design is all about desire, but strangely this desire seems almost subject-less today, or at least lack-less; that is, design seems to advance a new kind of narcissism, one that is all image and no interiority - an apotheosis of the subject that is also its disappearance. Poor little rich man: he is 'precluded from all fuure living and striving, developing and desiring' in the neo-Art Nouveau world of total design and Internet plenitude.
-
Music was the medium through which knowledge was passed from generation to generation.
-
There are people who are born and die and never once are aware of their breath going in and out of their body. That's how far away they live from themselves
-
Ask Elizabeth is a community of voices, it's not me standing on a podium telling people how to run their lives, it's girls helping each other sharing their wisdom and advice and I create a space for them to do it.
-
It was the saying of a great man, that if we could trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come from princes, and all princes from slaves; and fortune has turned all things topsy-turvy in a long series of revolutions; beside, for a man to spend his life in pursuit of a title, that serves only when he dies to furnish out an epitaph, is below a wise man's business.
-
A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne.
