Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Quotes
In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.
Quotes to Explore
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The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
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There's a side of fashion that's very analytical and data-oriented and methodical, but there's also a side of it that's just like magic. You can't quite put your finger on it, and you can't quite describe or prescribe a formula for how to get that magic exactly, but when you feel it and when you see it,you know that's what it is. It's magic.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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The older I get, the more I embrace who I am.
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What I write, I write. I'll always do it in some form.
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Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable on and championing the cause. Perhaps he will start to champion perjury statutes and obstruction of justice.
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I don't even like to go out onto the streets sometimes because I can't get anything done. People want pictures and autographs all the time.
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The people have nothing to fear of me; people have never feared me.
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Last time I checked, private nonprofit organizations have a right and a responsibility to be able to set the highest standards and criteria on their own without interference, let alone the level of vicious attacks and coercion that has occurred by Planned Parenthood.
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I'm a rock and roll singer.
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I've lived in Los Angeles for at least 24 years.
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I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.
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Life's too short when you find yourself sitting in a car for four hours every day trying to get from East L.A. to West L.A. to Hollywood and then back to East L.A.
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Money only buys the illusion of power. Real power is in the force of will - will strong enough that others bend to it for its own sake, and follow it willingly. Power that is won through deception will evaporate under the hot light of truth.
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I recall playing practical jokes with John Wayne. I once got a whole bunch of keys and had little tags made that said, 'If lost, please return to John Wayne, RKO Studios. Reward.' And I just dropped them all over town. He got a lot of phone calls, people showing up at the studio. He never learned who did it.
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Oh, Bertie, if I ever called you a brainless poop who ought to be given a scholarship at some lunatic asylum, I take back the words.
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I did commercial fishing in Alaska in college. I was the only girl on a fishing boat. It definitely tested so many aspects of my personality.
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For me, a show's a show. I try to put on the best show I can for whatever audience or time slot I get.
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To reach a mass audience, you have to offer more than just hostility.
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Ill-fitted T-shirts stretched over a gut are my pet hate. And if the colour's faded - ugh.
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'Prom' is a movie that follows a bunch of high-schoolers' lives leading up to the prom, the climax of the movie. It focuses all their struggles and the social pressures that prom creates on their lives.
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I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, 'How odd that I'm doing a record before a book of poetry,'
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Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.
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In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.
