Alain Robbe-Grillet Quotes

The reader as well as the main character does not view the work from outside. He too is in the labyrinth.

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• I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go out there and tell some stories, and people can relate.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • People
  • Life
  • Political

• Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.

  

  Hannes Alfven
  • People
  • Believe
  • Today

• I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Work
  • Girl
  • Band

• I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.

  

  Edna O'Brien
  • Long
  • Catholic
  • Irish

• I love America a lot. I really do.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Love
  • America
  • Really

• I love when I'm writing and I'm cringing because I know I'm doing something right.

  

  Zoe Cassavetes
  • Writing
  • Know
  • Right

• You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Perfect
  • Tired
  • Mood

• Playing a cop goes a long way. I have a lot of friends who are working as actors, and as soon as I started playing military characters or cops, and not the actual criminal that we're chasing on this show, they all said, 'You actually can have a career now.'

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Long
  • Friends
  • Career

• Discovery is for forward lookers. So, no one is born with great knowledge.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Great
  • Knowledge
  • Discovery

• I can get away with anything. But when I try to be sincere, people just roll their eyes.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Eyes
  • I Can

• Say, whence is the voice that, when anger is burning, Bids the whirl of the tempest to cease? That stirs the vexed soul with an aching - a yearning For the brotherly hand-grip of peace?

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Soul
  • Peace
  • Hand

• For far too long, virtually every time Americans have been asked to make 'tough choices,' it has resulted in disproportionate harm for hardworking Americans and retirees.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Time
  • Long
  • Choices

• I don't think there's any such thing as perfection. But I'm a perfectionist. I don't believe in the idea of perfection, but I will strive to achieve it.

  

  Jack Garratt
  • Believe

• Medals are great encouragement to young men and lead them to feel their work is of value, I remember how keenly I felt this when in the 1890s. I received the Darwin Medal and the Huxley Medal. When one is old, one wants no encouragement and one goes on with one's work to the extent of one's power, because it has become habitual.

  

  Karl Pearson
  • Work
  • Great
  • Men

• When she was pregnant with Teddy, she feared that she’d give birth to a child who disliked reading. It would be like giving birth to a foreign species.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • She
  • Giving
  • Reading

• I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Like

• I see a big difference between the Republican candidate and the Democratic candidate.

  

  William Weld
  • Differences
  • Bigs
  • Republican

• The urgent necessity is to make a decision - whether or not it is right.

  

  David Broder
  • Decision
  • Urgent

• I just don't understand, if they see numbers [of CEO salaries]that represent people, how they can somehow skirt around that and morally justify taking or ruining those lives and leaving them with nothing. That, to me, is violent crime. It's certainly more violent than selling grams of pot to other adults.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Understand
  • Justify
  • Violent Crime

• Let the labyrinth of wrinkles be furrowed in my brow with the red-hot iron of my own life, let my hair whiten and my step become vacillating, on condition that I can save the intelligence of my soul - let my unformed childhood soul, as it ages, assume the rational and esthetic forms of an architecture, let me learn just everything that others cannot teach me, what only life would be capable of marking deeply in my skin!

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Soul
  • Teach
  • Architecture

• It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Night
  • Possible
  • Reader

• The reader as well as the main character does not view the work from outside. He too is in the labyrinth.

  

  Alain Robbe-Grillet
  • Reader
  • Outside
  • Labyrinth