Michel Houellebecq Quotes

The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human.

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• I never got into politics for it to be a career.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Career
  • Never
  • Politics

• We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Good
  • Nice
  • Dark

• I'm an honest, open father.

  

  T.I.
  • Father
  • Honest
  • Open

• I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Environment
  • Concerts
  • Intrigues

• Our past is who we are, and death is one of our experiences. I lost my husband a long time ago, but it's always yesterday.

  

  Talia Shire
  • Time
  • Long
  • Death

• I am a little shy of any assumption of moral indignation. There is always in it an element of self-satisfaction which makes it awkward to anyone who has a sense of humour.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Moral
  • Assumption

• We are the mimics. Clouds are pedagogues.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Clouds

• Film contains potentialities for the combination of all the arts such as Wagner never dreamt of.

  

  Ralph Vaughan Williams

• I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Opinion

• If there are people who treat me wrong, I either talk to them about it, or I don't talk to them anymore. It's been the most thoughtful and considerate thing I could do for myself and other people. I am going to try to do that forever.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • People
  • Forever
  • Thoughtful

• Well, when I came to Hollywood, there were three names really of Latin actors, three or four names, maybe five. There was Raul Julia, Edward James Olmos, Andy Garcia, Antonio Banderas, Jimmy Smits. Now there's a lot.

  

  Benicio Del Toro
  • Latin

• I eat all of the time... at least five little meals a day.

  

  Marilu Henner
  • Time

• I tap dance.

  

  Jamie Bell
  • Dance

• Commercial fishermen are the greediest, stupidest people on earth.

  

  Paul Watson
  • People
  • Earth

• God's promises are all on condition of humble obedience.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • God
  • Humble

• Science is difficult and slow no matter who you are. The hours are long, and the glorious 'aha' days come only very infrequently. You have to keep believing that if you put in the hours, those days will indeed come!

  

  Bonnie Bassler
  • Long
  • Science

• I called it 'Cloud 9' because that's the place I want to take people when they are listening to my music. It's also where I am when I make music.

  

  Kygo
  • People
  • Music
  • Listening

• Video just accesses international information so much more readily.

  

  Ann Macbeth

• However, if Moscow regains control over Ukraine, with its 52 million people and major resources as well as access to the Black Sea, Russia automatically again regains the wherewithal to become a powerful imperial state, spanning Europe and Asia.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • People
  • Black
  • Control

• Hate is a very strong and heavy emotion, probably as strong as love. I don't think I can live with hatred. If something bad happens, you feel bad about it; you forgive and move on. There's no hatred.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Feel

• There are two types of people in this world: one who opens a packet of biscuits, has one and puts the rest back in the cupboard, and one who eats the whole packet in one go.

  

  Jo Brand
  • People
  • World
  • Rest

• The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with existential philosophy and modern theories of psychology and sociology.

  

  Jayne Ann Krentz
  • World
  • Long
  • Science

• One should be able to say to our children: You are a marvel! You are unique. In all the world, there is no other child exactly like you. In the millions of years that have passed, there has never been another child like you! ... and when you grow up, can you harm another who is, like you, a marvel?

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Up
  • World
  • Children

• The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human.

  

  Michel Houellebecq
  • World
  • Humans