Camille Flammarion (Nicolas Camille Flammarion) Quotes
If the existence of human beings leads to nothing, what is all this comedy about?Camille Flammarion
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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
Edmund Waller -
For ages, I had this mullet until someone on the street stopped me and said, 'Darling, can I cut your hair for free? Because you look a bit weird.'
Natalia Tena -
I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
Hannah Kent -
People really love editorial cartoons, and I think publishers understand that.
Walt Handelsman -
Would-be adoptive parents have to struggle for years through a bureaucratic obstacle course at an average cost of $30,000.
Foster Friess -
On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
Karl Philipp Moritz
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I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in a big way, you automatically want to go to Shakespeare.
Beau Willimon -
Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem -
We are very private, so we decided from early on that we will keep the press and editors and everybody out of our house.
Iman -
Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky.
Valentina Tereshkova -
I get very deep into the writing and recording process.
Natasha Bedingfield
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My mother was devoted to helping people - with my father's money! - who had great voices but didn't have the financial means to study music. He and my mum gave away dozens of music scholarships, and my mum opened a school in town, introduced opera to children and created fantastic programmes.
Salma Hayek -
Ultimately, I conclude that however we understand existence, what gives meaning to our lives are those things that serve our neurochemically based emotional self-interest in a sustainable way.
Nayef Al-Rodhan -
I am a great believer rather than the popular scientific way of dealing with things that 'Nothing exists unless you can prove it'. I am pretty much the other way that pretty much anything can exist unless you can disprove it.
Anthony Head -
Love can defeat that nameless terror. Loving one another, we take the sting from death. Loving our mysterious blue planet, we resolve riddles and dissolve all enigmas in contingent bliss.
Edward Abbey -
My mind is led astray by every faint rustle.
Mason Cooley -
Something different happens to my brain when I put pen to paper: the pace of writing or drawing slows you down and gives you more time for thoughts to come in.
Keri Smith
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If we lower the payroll tax, will Americans let us raise it again? I don't think so.
Marcia Fudge -
I do feel very American. I think it's something I'm proud of and proud to be by chance born here. Honestly, that's something I think about.
Dakota Fanning -
We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans.
Bill Clinton -
I have a profound interest in embroidery, as I have female ancestors on both sides who embroidered their way through great trials.
Emil Ferris -
I understood from a very young age that school was important and that my parents were making great sacrifices for me. Every morning I saw my father get up and go to a job that he didn't really like. They came to France for the same reasons all immigrants move to another country - so their kids could have a better way of life.
Omar Sy -
If the existence of human beings leads to nothing, what is all this comedy about?
Camille Flammarion