Remy de Gourmont Quotes

The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.

Remy de Gourmont

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• I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Up
  • Character
  • Think

• Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Long
  • Live
  • Lived

• I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Drive
  • Effect
  • Fears

• From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Family
  • Kids
  • House

• I haven't actually studied acting at all.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Acting
  • Actually
  • Studied

• It's an evolution. The same team doesn't always dominate, and it goes in cycles.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Team
  • Same
  • Evolution

• I hope I can compete in one or two Olympics in my career. Of course I would like to win a medal, but just being there would be awesome.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Hope
  • Career
  • Win

• I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Career
  • Past
  • Present

• When I'm on vacation here in the States, I can do all kinds of stuff; I can train and keep busy.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Train
  • Vacation
  • Busy

• When I first started out in cycling, if there were two girls there, that was successful; but now, if there are 20 girls there, it's just unbelievable. The growth of the sport is just incredible.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Growth
  • Successful
  • Now

• Everything goes in waves. Evolution goes in waves. The ocean goes in waves. Energy goes in waves. Sound travels in waves.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Energy
  • Ocean
  • Evolution

• I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Up
  • Business
  • Feeling

• This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • Stop
  • Election
  • Taxes

• I'm always flattered when someone thinks of me as a potential commissioner of baseball.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Me
  • Always
  • Potential

• Burton Cummings joining the Guess Who in January 1966 changed my life forever. It's been a rocky affiliation, no doubt. One journalist once described our relationship as the longest running soap opera in Canadian history. That may be a bit oversimplified.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Life
  • May
  • History

• My home has always been show business.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Home
  • Business
  • Always

• Not many players would turn down a chance to play for Real Madrid and Barcelona, as they're right at the top the tree in terms of football.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Real
  • Football
  • Chance

• Love is the crown that glorifies; the curse That brands and burdens; it is life and death. It is the great law of the universe; And nothing can exist without its breath.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Life
  • Great
  • Death

• When you affirm your own rightness in the universe, then you co-operate with others easily and automatically as part of your own nature. You, being yourself, helps others be themselves. Because you recognize your own uniqueness you will not need to dominate others, nor cringe before them.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Universe
  • Affirm
  • Rightness

• Economists use the word consume to mean "utilize economic goods," but the Shorter Oxford Dictionary's definition is more appropriate to ecologists: "To make away with or destroy; to waste or to squander; to use up." The economies that cater to the global consumer society are responsible for the lion's share of the damage that humans have inflicted on common global resources.

  

  Alan Thein Durning
  • Human
  • Resources
  • Damage

• Every guy should have a fantasy sports team.

  

  Genesis Rodriguez
  • Guy
  • Team
  • Sports

• I also have two dogs, a Chihuahua and a Yorkshire terrier, so if they like him, that's a good sign.

  

  Christine Flores
  • Good

• The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.

  

  Remy de Gourmont
  • Universe
  • Human
  • Explain