Michel Houellebecq Quotes

Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.

Michel Houellebecq

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• A dog is a pitiful thing, depending wholly on companionship, and utterly lost except in packs or by the side of his master. Leave him alone, and he does not know what to do except bark and howl and trot about till sheer exhaustion forces him to sleep.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Lost
  • Alone
  • Sleep

• Film can be exciting, but more often, it's tedious.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Film
  • More
  • Often

• There is something wrong with our culture when the view that marriage is between one man and one woman, a view shared by half the nation, is portrayed as evidence of hatred.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Man
  • Culture
  • Marriage

• I know some people are really comfortable with talking about their feelings and hopes and fears in public, but I'm not, and I don't think it's that extraordinary.

  

  Natasha Little
  • People
  • Think
  • Feelings

• Scotland is the best place in the whole world.

  

  Gail Porter
  • World
  • Best
  • Place

• I don't think I'm the world's most die-hard sci-fi fan, but I definitely grew up watching 'Star Trek' religiously - all of them: the original, 'Next Generation,' 'Deep Space Nine,' 'Voyager.' I think sci-fi has an important place in the cinema world. Fantasy is a big part of why films actually exist.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Up
  • World
  • Important

• I don't know what to do when I'm not working. I lose my mind if I'm not constantly doing something.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Mind
  • Know
  • Doing

• The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Business
  • Political
  • Drunk

• I like Public School and En Noir.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • School
  • Like
  • Public School

• I hadn't done much rapping in a while. I really wasn't sure I was going to do that any more. For a couple years I thought I was done with that. It wasn't really required of me.

  

  Beck
  • Done
  • Me
  • Couple

• Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Time
  • Women
  • Children

• You know when something feels so good but you're afraid to feel good about it? So you kinda hold back? Everyone says, Congratulations, you must be so happy. And you say something stupid like, I'm just doing what little I can with what little I have.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Stupid

• I had this idea that I wanted to do this mixture of visions of African American women and visions of African American men. And call it 'The Men' and call it 'The Women' and show different faces of these two people.

  

  Faith Ringgold
  • People
  • Men
  • Different

• I'm not a foodie - I'm an eater: I'm hungry.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Hungry
  • Eater

• I just would use any instrument known to man in any combination as long as it describes an emotion.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Long
  • Man
  • Emotion

• You will find it will almost always be more comfortable to sit on the sidelines and critique the builders from afar. But at the end of the day, the people who make a difference, the people who shape history, are not the haters.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • History
  • Day

• I had fun while I did it, and I left it all out there on the field. I'm tapped out.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Fun
  • Left
  • Field

• Anytime someone tells me that I can't do something, I want to do it more.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Want
  • Me
  • Tells

• The success that Americans are said to worship is success of a specific sort: accomplished not through hard work, primarily, but through the ingenious angle, the big break. Sit down at a lunch counter, stand back up a star. Invest in a new issue and watch it soar. Split a single atom, win a war.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Up
  • Work
  • War

• Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • First
  • Doctrine
  • Knave

• By an ambitious chieftain, aiming only to aggrandize himself and establish his power, the subject might have been regarded in a different light; but the designs and actions of Washington centred in nobler objects, the freedom, tranquillity, and happiness of his country, in which he was to participate equally with every other citizen, neither seeking nor expecting any other preeminence than that of having been an instrument in the hand of Providence.

  

  George Washington
  • Hands
  • Instruments
  • Providence

• My days are spent wrangling children, chipping dried manure from boots, washing jeans, and frying calf nuts.

  

  Ree Drummond
  • Children
  • Days
  • Boots

• Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.

  

  Michel Houellebecq
  • Happens
  • Anything