Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Quotes

Nature wants us to enjoy life to the full and die without giving it a second thought; Christianity wants the opposite.

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

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• I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Trying

• For 'Regulate,' I was at home, and I came up with it. I was listening to Michael McDonald's 'I Keep Forgettin'.' It was a record that I always loved, from being a kid and my parents playing it when they had their company of friends over. It was a record that just stuck in my head, and it just felt good.

  

  Warren G
  • Up
  • Good
  • Home

• You read a million scripts during pilot season, and most of them are not very good, so the good ones really shine.

  

  Caitlin Fitzgerald
  • Good
  • Shine
  • Season

• I'm only drinking white wine because I'm on a diet and I don't eat.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Wine
  • Drinking
  • White

• I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Work Hard

• Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.

  

  Young Buck
  • Trying
  • Struggle
  • Grind

• I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Cat
  • Now
  • Got

• Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • People
  • Trying
  • Stars

• I can't wait to get my face lifted but my husband says, 'No, don't do it.' I think if it makes you feel better, go for it, but it would be nice if it looked good. There are a lot of people out there who are disasters and you think, 'Why did you do that?'

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Family
  • Myself
  • Forty

• We at Fidelity view ourselves just as much a financial information processing company as an investment management firm. That may not be too newsworthy.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • May
  • Financial
  • Management

• I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Done
  • Learning
  • I Can

• Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Men
  • Man
  • Genius

• Hanson plays music that is very much a part of everything.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Music
  • Everything
  • Very

• When I was 11 years old, I was a member of 'Press Pack,' which was a thing that would come out in 'The Sunday Times' in England. You'd write articles and send them off and would get a badge saying 'Official Press.' I was really excited about my badge.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • You
  • Old
  • Sunday

• We have met the enemy and he is us.

  

  Walt Kelly
  • Enemy
  • U.S.
  • Met

• Instead of sitting on the sidelines, President Obama has made it clear that the US is ready to lead a global effort to combat climate change.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Change
  • Effort
  • President

• I started this charity, Fashion for Relief, in 2005, after Hurricane Katrina happened. New Orleans was actually the first place I visited in the United States. It was one of my first big jobs, a shoot for British 'Elle.' It was April 14, 1986.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Fashion
  • Charity
  • April

• Barbara Bush has her finger on the pulse of America. Im so glad shes back and more compassionate than ever, ... Thats right, of course people just sat around New Orleans, boring, uninspired, soulless New Orleans, and dreamed of someday relocating to the Astrodome. Oh, dear Lord, if only I could leave my unhappy existence and head on up to wonderful Houston and live with my friends side by side in a spacious football stadium, my life would be so much richer and complete.

  

  Sandra Bernhard
  • People
  • Football
  • Wonderful

• There are six mental faculties that we have, and how we use them sets the course for our life.

  

  Bob Proctor
  • Life
  • Course
  • Faculties

• Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • American
  • Hope
  • Give

• Find what you love and find a way to make that part of your every day. You have to find the confidence to take certain risks. You're going to hear a lot of no's before you get to the yes'. It's important to have that confidence to overcome that and know it's part of trying to grow something big.

  

  Whitney Port
  • Important
  • Confidence
  • Find

• Nature wants us to enjoy life to the full and die without giving it a second thought; Christianity wants the opposite.

  

  Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
  • Enjoy
  • Christianity
  • Opposites