Alfred Capus Quotes

To marry a woman you love and who loves you is to lay a wager with her as to who will stop loving the other first.

Alfred Capus

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• I have never sought the reason why I write.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Why
  • Reason
  • Never

• My dad was in the military, yeah. He was in the Air Force, and he was a doctor, so he would go places for six months here, and two years there. And I was home-schooled because I played the violin, and I did a lot of competitions.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Home
  • Dad
  • Air

• During a transformation, it's understandable to be hesitant about moving too fast, especially at the outset.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Moving
  • Transformation
  • Fast

• Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Experience
  • Brain
  • Influence

• I hate giving advice, because people won't take it.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Giving
  • Hate

• The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • New
  • Year
  • Kiss

• No doubt I enjoy being close to people in the way I dress, the way I speak, and the way I communicate with people.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • People
  • Doubt
  • Enjoy

• I have no regret about making 'Heroine'; rather, I am happy I made it. I never shun my films; I stick to it.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Films
  • Making
  • Shun

• I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Movie
  • Fashion
  • End

• It's not like I'm starved for company - I have a few very good lady friends - but there's only a certain amount of times a woman wants to see you and never go out for dinner.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Woman

• In market research I did at Microsoft Corp. in the early 1990s, I estimated that the 'Wall Street Journal' took in about 75 cents per copy from subscribers, $1.25 at the newsstand and a whopping $5 per copy from ads. The ad revenue let them run a far bigger newsroom than subscribers were paying for.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Wall
  • Research
  • Street

• All I really try and do is live up to my potential and do as well as I possibly could and to bring to the ballpark each and every day a good effort and do the best that I could each and every day.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Up
  • Good
  • Live

• Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Opportunity
  • Dance
  • Floor

• And the whole thing is that you're treated like a step-child. Here it was down here, everything in the black, because they were stealing, basically. Stealing from us old country boys down here.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Country
  • Boys
  • Here

• I did a lot of student acting when I was young.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Acting
  • Young
  • Student

• If most people were to take a moment to picture in their minds the average, not-for-profit, save-the-world girl, they... well, they probably wouldn't, because who wants to think about hemp, hairy legs, and Birkenstocks? But I'd rather eat a pair of Birkenstocks than put them on my feet, and I love, love, love my Christian Louboutins.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • People
  • World
  • Girl

• I like to get real pretty.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Real
  • Pretty
  • Like

• Rankings are not so important. I am only focused on winning tournaments.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Winning
  • Tournaments
  • Rankings

• Without birds to feed on them, the insects would multiply catastrophically. The insects, not man or other proud species, are really the only ones fitted for survival in the nuclear age. The cockroach, a venerable and hardy species, will take over the habitats of the foolish humans, and compete only with other insects or bacteria.

  

  H. Bentley Glass
  • Men
  • Age
  • Science

• You're always cursing, you're always praying and you're always making love. It ain't do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Always
  • Praying
  • Cursing

• That's what makes death so hard--unsatisfied curiosity.

  

  Beryl Markham
  • Death
  • Curiosity

• What grieves me most in my past offenses, O my loving God, is not so much the punishment I have deserved, as the displeasure I have given You, Who are worthy of infinite love.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • God
  • Punishment
  • Loving

• To marry a woman you love and who loves you is to lay a wager with her as to who will stop loving the other first.

  

  Alfred Capus
  • Loving
  • Marry
  • Wager