Camille Flammarion (Nicolas Camille Flammarion) Quotes

What, then, is this blue sky, which certainly does exist, and which veils from us the stars during the day?

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• I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • People
  • Trying
  • Want

• Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good, the show looks good!

  

  Florenz Ziegfeld
  • Good
  • Great
  • Music

• The success of a particular policy prescription is always a gamble.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Success
  • Always
  • Policy

• What worries me is that conservative thought is moving quickly, but we're kind of the pachyderms in Congress because things move so slowly.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Moving
  • Thought
  • Worries

• 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

• The challenge starts when you first come to Mumbai. But it's momentary if you win an award.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Challenge
  • Win
  • Award

• Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Charity
  • Behavior
  • Principle

• A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Money
  • Government
  • Goal

• I'm belligerent rather than ambitious.

  

  Ian Hart
  • Ambitious
  • Rather
  • Than

• Sometimes, the most daunting thing about performing is making eye contact with your audience, so just look above them and at the corners of the room. Soon, you'll totally forget they're there.

  

  Laura Marano
  • Sometimes
  • Eye
  • Forget

• Nobody is like Tanuja Trivedi in this whole world.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • World
  • Like
  • Nobody

• Cut off the head of the snake

  

  Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
  • Snake

• And be prepared. Luck is truly where preparation meets opportunity.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Opportunity
  • Luck
  • Preparation

• Oh rainy day woman,I've never seem to see you for the good times or the sunshine.You have been a friend of mine, rainy day woman.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Sunshine

• The less somebody knows and understand himself the less great he is, however great may be his talent. For this reason our scientists are not great.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Great
  • May

• Death,I need my little addiction to you.need that tiny voice who,even as I rise from the sea,all woman, all there,says kill me, kill me.

  

  Anne Sexton
  • Death
  • Sea
  • Addiction

• Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien. Such is the stuff of which the great moral leaders are made.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Man
  • Fear
  • Leaders

• My entire career, everybody says I need to punch somebody.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Career

• We all have a face that we hide away forever, and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Forever
  • Face
  • Ourselves

• The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.

  

  Laura Moser
  • People
  • Why
  • Kids

• My mother was an extraordinary theater actor in Canada, and when I would finish school, I would go to the theater. I would do my homework, we would have dinner there, she would do her play, and then me and my sister would go home. So I grew up in it that way.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Up
  • School
  • Home

• Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that happen in my life.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Superman

• What, then, is this blue sky, which certainly does exist, and which veils from us the stars during the day?

  

  Camille Flammarion
  • Sky
  • Stars
  • Veils