Alain Robbe-Grillet Quotes

To tell the truth, girls are no longer the way they used to be. They play gangsters, nowadays, just like boys. They organize rackets. They plan holdups and practice karate. They will rape defenseless adolescents. They wear pants... Life has become impossible.

Alain Robbe-Grillet

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• The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Human
  • Liberty
  • Sense

• I'm a little bit like a turducken: I'm sort of like an Indian person, wrapped in a British person, wrapped in an American kind of thing.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • American
  • Kind
  • British

• Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Why
  • Job

• I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Fall

• There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Nature
  • Rules
  • Laws

• When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I'm not good at accepting help.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Good
  • Help
  • Accepting

• My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Parents
  • Said
  • Times

• I used to hate stilettos. It took me a lot of time to understand how to walk in them and look graceful. And eventually, you realise their importance.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Time
  • Hate
  • Walk

• I feel even old people can do a nice love story, but here we don't make that kind of films. In the West, such films are being made and they make a nice romance, which is more like compassion.

  

  Om Puri
  • People
  • Love
  • Nice

• It is quite hard to relax in London. I always say I'd move somewhere quieter, but I am a bit of a confirmed urbanite now - it crept up on me without me noticing. I always think that I function quite well on my own, unusually so, but then I'm reminded how important people are to me.

  

  Laura Marling
  • People
  • Important
  • Relax

• Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know - I've been using it for years.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Habit

• I have loved colours, and not flowers;Their motion, not the swallows wings;And wasted more than half my hoursWithout the comradeship of things.

  

  Arthur Symons

• Politics: distrust all parties but consider capitalism must go.

  

  Louis MacNeice

• I like to think of criticism as the highest intellectual effort that mankind is capable of, and above all, I like to think of self-criticism as the most difficult attainment of an educated man.

  

  Lin Yutang
  • Effort
  • Criticism

• Comedy is like math - you can check your answer because you know you've gotten it right if you get a laugh. It just makes sense to me. I feel like because I've had to keep that tool in my box for so long, I'm ready to show it off a bit.

  

  Jennifer Carpenter
  • Long
  • Comedy
  • Math

• I'm not trying to blow out a camera lens or make the audience's hair go straight back from my sheer volume, sheer energy level.

  

  Laurie Metcalf
  • Trying
  • Energy
  • Hair

• No, I've never moved on with a play. I did the original 'Closer' in London but didn't transfer to the West End or Broadway with it. The same is true of 'Iceman': I didn't go to the Old Vic or Broadway with that. I don't know; I feel an allegiance often to the play where you do it first, in the theatre that it's in; you do it for that space.

  

  Mark Strong
  • True
  • Space
  • Theatre

• A number of aspects of mathematics are not much talked about in contemporary histories of mathematics. We have in mind business and commerce, war, number mysticism, astrology, and religion. In some instances, writers, hoping to assert for mathematics a noble parentage and a pure scientific experience, have turned away their eyes. Histories have been eager to put the case for science, but the Handmaiden of the Sciences has lived a far more raffish and interesting life than her historians allow.

  

  Eric Temple Bell
  • Business
  • Experience
  • Religion

• There are so many of us that just do things to pay bills, but I never wanted that to be me.

  

  Mehcad Brooks

• Early in the winter of 2002, I gave my life to the Lord. Before I was one, I always thought being a Christian would be boring. In reality, it has been the complete opposite.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Christian

• Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.

  

  Kenneth L. Pike

• To tell the truth, girls are no longer the way they used to be. They play gangsters, nowadays, just like boys. They organize rackets. They plan holdups and practice karate. They will rape defenseless adolescents. They wear pants... Life has become impossible.

  

  Alain Robbe-Grillet
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Girls