Camille Flammarion (Nicolas Camille Flammarion) Quotes

Lightning is like an elementary spirit, eccentric or rational, clever or silly, passing from one extreme to the other.

Camille Flammarion

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• I get tired of comedies where there are a bunch of funny guys and a beautiful woman who doesn't do anything funny. And I don't like books where there's a rough-and-tumble boy and a really clever, snotty girl. That's just not my experience with teenagers.

  

  Patrick Ness
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  • Beautiful
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• It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
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• We're immersed in the spirit of God all the time. We just don't notice.

  

  Dan Millman
  • Time
  • God
  • Spirit

• This generosity that has been offered to the United States says very much about the Venezuelan spirit.

  

  Harry Belafonte
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  • Generosity
  • United

• My research for 'Adam' affected me profoundly, particularly the research into evil's underbelly. We tend not to think about evil until it pokes its head out of the air about us and then it tends to scare us silly. As well it should.

  

  Ted Dekker
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  • Silly
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• Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Silly

• When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.

  

  Saadi
  • Body
  • Spirit
  • Empty

• I was not a silly kid or outgoing. In fact, I suffered from quite a bit of anxiety. I used to have panic attacks when I was a teenager, really incapacitating moments, because I had some phobias.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Moments
  • Teenager
  • Anxiety

• I don't know that I have any role models now that are fixed. Definitely my mom - she's the coolest. She's worked really hard her whole life and I just think she's got a great attitude. Moms just know so much it's so silly.

  

  Larisa Oleynik
  • Life
  • Mom
  • Attitude

• I don't mind being goofy and silly. I love to make people laugh and I'm not self-conscious.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • People
  • Mind
  • Laugh

• I had no idea how difficult Sondheim's music would be. All through the rehearsals, I kept flubbing. There were so many tempo changes. I could never get through the opening number without any mistakes. One day, I went up to Hal Prince and offered to leave the show. He laughed it off. He said, 'Don't be silly. That's why we have tryouts.'

  

  Mako
  • Up
  • Music
  • Why

• My dad's a very shrewd, clever guy.

  

  C. Thomas Howell
  • Guy
  • Dad
  • Very

• 'I wish I had never been born,' she said. 'What are we born for?' 'For infinite happiness,' said the Spirit. 'You can step out into it at any moment...'

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Happiness
  • Spirit
  • Moment

• I know no place at which an Englishman may drop down suddenly among a pleasanter circle of acquaintance, or find himself with a more clever set of men, than he can do at Boston.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Men
  • May
  • Clever

• Let's be honest. The powers that be all of a sudden realize that there's a lot of money to be made from the Latino market. It all comes down to economics. That's what's happening. So what! We're in style. I mean, that's silly, but I'm taking full advantage of that.

  

  Paula Garces
  • Money
  • Style
  • Silly

• My freshman English professor at Kent State University in 1984 told me I was a good writer, and she loved all the silly pictures I drew in my notebook. She said I should try writing children's books, and so I did.

  

  Dav Pilkey
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Children

• I like to have fun, I'm silly, and I keep the mood light.

  

  Kylie Jenner
  • Fun
  • Light
  • Mood

• Mourinho is a fantastic manager, intelligent, clever. He is OK.

  

  Claudio Ranieri
  • Intelligent
  • Clever

• The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent Mr. Toad.

  

  Kenneth Grahame
  • Men
  • Intelligent
  • Clever

• There's no neutral language about travel. Either travel is described in ways that make it sound kind of shallow or just glossy or silly or a way for rich people to spend their time; or else travel is often described in quite derogatory ways, you know, like immigrants swarming across borders, for instance.

  

  Emma Donoghue
  • People
  • Time
  • Travel

• I don't want to put words in Geithner's mouth, but I think he is generally against the revolving door of government officials taking jobs with companies that they have overseen or in roles that involve lobbying. At minimum, I'm pretty sure he felt that way about himself.

  

  Andrew Ross Sorkin
  • Pretty
  • Words
  • Door

• There was a golden era in film-making in Hollywood back in the 1970s, and although there is some great independent film-making in America, it's actually very hard to get independent films made in the United States. It's much more feasible from Europe.

  

  Lenny Abrahamson
  • Great
  • America
  • Independent

• If we did end tomorrow, I would be so stoked and proud of everything I've done and how I lived my life. I feel like I've had enough experiences for multiple lives.

  

  Andy Hurley Fall Out Boy
  • Proud
  • My Life
  • Experiences

• Lightning is like an elementary spirit, eccentric or rational, clever or silly, passing from one extreme to the other.

  

  Camille Flammarion
  • Spirit
  • Silly
  • Clever