Madame de Stael Quotes
Tombs decked by the arts can scarcely represent death as a formidable enemy; we do not, indeed, like the ancients, carve sports and dances in the sarcophagus, but thought is diverted from the bier by works that tell of immortality, even from the altar of death.
Quotes to Explore
-
You have to find out how to become the character.
-
My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something that I knew, if I made the NFL, I would financially have the ability to do.
-
I don't have a telephone. If I had a lot of money, I wouldn't have one.
-
Until part of your paycheck is regularly paid in Bitcoin, I'm not sure how it would really go mainstream. I can imagine places in the world where there are not functioning banking systems or payroll systems, where it could go mainstream first because you're not trying to replace the way people are already doing something.
-
I tell people all the time, 'Don't give up.' We get almost to our blessing, whether you believe spiritually in God or in a good force and an evil force. We get almost to our blessing, and we quit. Don't stop.
-
It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
-
The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
-
I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
-
All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
-
I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
-
The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents.
-
I don't like to look typical.
-
I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I think.
-
During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.
-
Everybody wants to defeat the defending champs.
-
Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
-
I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents - but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous.
-
The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.
-
Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion! What feminism does not need, it seems to me, is an endless recycling of Doris Day Fifties clichés about noble womanhood.
-
Everybody has their own way to deal with it. I don't concern myself with other people's - whether or not they want to come out, it's not something for me think about.
-
there are - as every one knows - two kinds of writing: one coming out of your vitals and the other from the top of your head. The first is the only sort from which any true private pleasure can be gained, for it is a way of getting something out of life which seemed to be there in childhood, when childhood is quite over.
-
When art in general, and film in particular, succeeds is when it pulls you away onto a voyage. Then it's a good film.
-
I am not schizoid. A little manic-depressive, maybe." "'Know thyself.'" "We try, sir.
-
Tombs decked by the arts can scarcely represent death as a formidable enemy; we do not, indeed, like the ancients, carve sports and dances in the sarcophagus, but thought is diverted from the bier by works that tell of immortality, even from the altar of death.
