Honore de Balzac Quotes

Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

Honore de Balzac

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• What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Real
  • Artist
  • Prestige

• If I could marry my motorcycle, I'd roll her right up to the altar.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Right
  • Motorcycle
  • Marry

• The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Power
  • Need
  • Slavery

• I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music comes first, it's OK to have some fireworks. But not the other way around.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Music
  • Long
  • Play

• I love all music. Right now I am loving Josh Grobin and Kelly Clarkson.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Music
  • Right
  • Loving

• With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • War
  • China
  • Global

• A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.

  

  E. B. White
  • Day
  • Writer
  • Plant

• It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Business

• One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Time
  • Opportunity
  • Through

• I think you learn something from everybody that you've worked with. I really learned how to behave on set through the people that I worked with, like the importance of being on time and the importance of being professional. I don't bring my cell phone on set; I leave it in my trailer.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • People
  • Time
  • Professional

• I like going to Burning Man, for example. An environment where people can try new things. I think as technologists we should have some safe places where we can try out new things and figure out the effect on society. What's the effect on people, without having to deploy it to the whole world.

  

  Larry Page
  • People
  • World
  • Society

• I have so many goals and aspirations that sometimes I lose myself.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Myself
  • Sometimes
  • Goals

• One day my 3-year-old daughter said 'Your very handsome, Poppy.' That was the best compliment ever.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Day
  • Best
  • Daughter

• I have read somewhere that in a totalitarian system martyrdom does better than thought.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Martyrdom
  • Totalitarian

• My dear fellow citizens: For forty years you have heard from my predecessors on this day different variations of the same theme: how our country flourished, how many millions of tons of steel we produced, how happy we all were, how we trusted our government, and what bright perspectives were unfolding in front of us. I assume you did not propose me for this office so that I, too, would lie to you.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Different
  • Country
  • Happy

• You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven't yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Age
  • Actor
  • Insecurity

• If you have fame, you never feel that you have fame, if you have the brains of a flea. Because fame is something that's over back of you. It ain't ahead.... Not ahead at all. I mean, if you've done it that's great, but "what are you going to do now?" is the only thing that matters.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Great
  • Done
  • Fame

• Modern education develops the intellect and imparts skills, but does not promote qualities in any way.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Education
  • Quality
  • Skills

• Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Talk
  • Leave
  • Please

• The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy.

  

  Francis Ford Coppola
  • Cinema
  • Editing
  • Alchemy

• This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Heart
  • Pressure
  • Argument

• Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Rock
  • Paradox
  • Yield

• I think that genre distinctions basically boil down to marketing categories, which are outdated. Any time people have an argument about them, they're arguing about something that doesn't exist in any meaningful way that has to do with style or substance or actual content of books.

  

  Emily Gould
  • Style
  • Books
  • Argument

• Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Argument
  • Resist
  • Yield