Rene Descartes Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
A woman should be an illusion.
-
I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
-
Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
-
I've always been a very prolific writer.
-
It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
-
As long as I have ambition, maybe I can achieve something for my country.
-
I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'
-
I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
-
I frequently go to the ballet, but I don't miss it in the sense that I wish I were still dancing.
-
I used to write fiction, non-fiction, fiction, non-fiction and have a clear pattern because I'd need a break from one style when going into the next book.
-
I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.
-
You've got to have steel in you somewhere.
-
Nothing really happened - I was elected in '86 - until 1992, and that's when the Anita Hill debacle happened.
-
I have never had time for the idea of searching. Whenever I wanted to express something, I did so without thinking of the past or the future.
-
You have food?" Winter scolded. "I thought you said you were hungry." I'm hungry for other things besides what I have," [Clover] argued.
-
I love my parents and they're wonderful people, but they were strict, and I still look for ways to get even. When I got my own apartment for the very first time and they came to stay with me for the weekend, I made them stay in separate bedrooms.
-
They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.
-
The freest form of government is only the least objectionable form. The rule of the many by the few we call tyranny: the rule of the few by the many is tyranny also; only of a less intense kind.
-
Kids tend to look up to sports figures and entertainers, probably more than they should, but I've tried to use that in a positive way.
-
In Puerto Rico, I played in all kinds of bands that played salsa and merengue. That's how I saved the money to come to the U.S. We used to play El Gran Combo tunes. Half the band was my friends - we were around 15 - and the other half was my friend's father and his friends from the hospital where he worked. They were all, like, 50.
-
Man lives between the infinitely large and the infinitely small.
-
He lives well who is well hidden.
