Moliere Quotes

The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.

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• Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Up
  • Man
  • Alone

• I'm a stand-up comic. I'm always doing dates; it's just that, if I'm working on a project or I'm busy, I can't get out on the road or book any shows. Since the beginning of my career, I'm usually out for at least 10-15 dates throughout the year. If I have time, then I try to get at least 30-40 dates.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Up
  • Time
  • Book

• I feel like I'm a secondary artist, a kind of a conduit for the writer, and if it's a good writer, then I have a great road map.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Good
  • Great
  • Road

• I've been hit in the head a lot, but I don't think I have any problems, but I can't, for the life of me, remember a lot of my road stories and good times. When times are bad enough, that's all you can ever think about.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Life
  • Good
  • Remember

• All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Road
  • Courage
  • inspirational

• A lot of people seem to feel that joy is only the most intense version of pleasure, arrived at by the same road - you simply have to go a little further down the track. That has not been my experience.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Experience
  • Joy

• I have lucky boots for military embeds, a lucky scarf for road trips, a lucky handbag, and lucky days of the week. I tap into my gut for 'right' or 'wrong' feelings about such simple things as whether I should go grocery shopping.

  

  Farnaz Fassihi
  • Simple
  • Road
  • Military

• There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • World
  • Art
  • Road

• Tests that sugar-coat the truth only set up our kids to fail in worse ways down the road.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Truth

• I'm so happy that I was able to make it to 120 games for Germany; 175 games would have been possible. I've had many great moments, but particularly the way the fans supported me and the road to the final in Rio.

  

  Bastian Schweinsteiger
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Moments

• Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Success
  • Road
  • Nobody

• All my editors since Malcolm Cowley have had instructions to leave my prose exactly as I wrote it. In the days of Malcolm Cowley, with 'On the Road' and 'The Dharma Bums', I had no power to stand by my style for better or for worse.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Power
  • Style
  • Road

• For many child soldiers, war and violence are all they have ever known. If we don't take it upon ourselves to show them an alternative, then they're going to be soldiers forever, and they'll continue to be recruited and to participate in violence if another conflict starts five or 10 years down the road.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • War
  • Forever
  • Violence

• I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • Believe
  • Book
  • Dad

• There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Art
  • Learning
  • Road

• The Road of life is rocky and you may stumble too, so while you talk about me, someone else is judging you.

  

  Bob Marley
  • Life
  • May
  • Road

• Anytime that me and the guys go out on the road, it's fun to step away from the craziness of what it is we do. I just enjoy that time being outside with my buddies.

  

  Luke Combs
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Road

• I was a 'Big Brother' fan. I thought they were better musicians than their detractors claimed, but more to the point, technical accomplishment was not something I cared about.

  

  Ellen Willis
  • Brother
  • Accomplishment

• Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. You will be certain to find something you have never seen before. Of course it will be a little thing, but do not ignore it. One discovery will lead to another, and before you know it, you will have something worth thinking about to occupy your mind, and really big discoveries are the result of thought.

  

  Alexander Graham Bell
  • Road
  • Ignore
  • Result

• It isnecessary to destroy the pretended nobility, entirely literaryand traditional, of marble and bronze? The sculptor can use twenty different materials, or even more, in a single work, provided that the plastic emotion requires it.

  

  Umberto Boccioni
  • Work
  • Different
  • Single

• I'd like men to think about evolving into something more sophisticated, more seductive. To explore the possibility of an entirely new masculinity.

  

  Hedi Slimane
  • Men
  • Possibility
  • Masculinity

• It is one thing to hear about the forest and the river, but an entirely other experience to go there, to see the environment, and to appreciate the natural riches there first-hand.

  

  Chris Kilham
  • Experience
  • Hand
  • Environment

• The economics of setting up a new restaurant are scary in good times and terrifying in bad ones.

  

  John Lanchester
  • Up
  • Good
  • Bad

• The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.

  

  Moliere
  • Road
  • Accomplishment
  • Projection