Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Quotes

The nearest approach to the infallible in literary judgment is represented in the colossal work of the teacher of all these three Edmund Gosse, Edward Dowden and George Saintsbury, the greatest critic that ever lived - not an Englishman, but a Frenchman, the wonderful Sainte-Beuve.

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• I thought we had energy out there. I thought the guys were, they played good, they were excited. We were almost dynamite out there today. Just a flicker away from being dynamite.

  

  Hal Sutton
  • Good
  • Today
  • Energy

• I know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I'm assuming they're at least going to want to touch on it, but I don't know and I don't know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Men
  • Different
  • Want

• Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Different
  • You
  • Things

• I've been on stage since I was 7. That's where I'd rather be than anywhere else. Just because you can do a bunch of things doesn't mean you are a bunch of things. I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Stage
  • Act
  • Sing

• I think, as a woman in action in the business, you would be stupid not to express interest. Any female action role that presents itself as an opportunity I would throw myself at!

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Business
  • Opportunity
  • Action

• If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • You
  • Like
  • Talk

• I like John McCain. He can always be counted on for a good quote.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Good
  • Like
  • Always

• The second someone tries to put me in a box, I will do everything to rebel against that.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Rebel

• Could there have been a better role for Florence Henderson than Mrs. Brady? She nurtured everybody. She was so caring.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • She
  • Caring

• In terms of growing as a songwriter, I'm just a guy who understands the craft better. I understand what I want to do with it. I think that's where I've grown. Have I fully achieved that? No, but I don't think you ever do. There's always room to grow.

  

  Albert Hammond, Jr.
  • Guy
  • Growing

• I grew up a wrestler; for a long time in Oklahoma I was a wrestler.

  

  Christian Kane
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• There's a lot of guys who are drafted and end up not playing in the NBA. They get their money for their first whatever years and end up going overseas or something like that.

  

  Jalen Brunson
  • Up
  • Money

• I think the best SF writers are very aware of what we, in the scientific community, are doing, thinking, and discovering.

  

  David Grinspoon
  • Thinking
  • Community

• If you are a woman with your own money, you have confidence. You have the pick of the litter.

  

  Loni Love
  • Money
  • Confidence

• I've always wanted to be an action figure.

  

  Jake Lloyd
  • Action

• I think there's a point to regulating, because there are snake oil companies.

  

  Anne Wojcicki
  • Snake

• I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth.

  

  Alice Duer Miller
  • Good
  • Important
  • Truth

• One of the reasons I do like 'Cult' is that it plays along the same vibe as the movie 'Seven,' which I absolutely love. There was a period of cinema in the mid-'90s that I was a huge fan of, with 'Heat' and 'Seven' and the Tarantino era. If I've ever been fanatical, it was about those films, back in the day.

  

  Matthew Davis
  • Movie
  • Period

• The detail is as important as the essential is. When it is inadequate, it destroys the whole outfit.

  

  Christian Dior
  • Important

• We don't have a choice on whether we DO social media, the question is how well we do it.

  

  Erik Qualman
  • Choices
  • Media
  • Social

• For years I have told my students that I been trying to train executives rather than clerks. The distinction between the two is parallel to the distinction previously made between understanding and knowledge. It is a mighty low executive who cannot hire several people with command of more knowledge than he has himself.

  

  Carroll Quigley
  • People
  • Trying
  • Understanding

• Military officers from different countries, when they meet each other, tend to sort of fall in love, become mutual admiration societies, at the expense of realities.

  

  William Odom
  • Countries
  • Admiration
  • Realities

• Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Up
  • Remember

• The nearest approach to the infallible in literary judgment is represented in the colossal work of the teacher of all these three Edmund Gosse, Edward Dowden and George Saintsbury, the greatest critic that ever lived - not an Englishman, but a Frenchman, the wonderful Sainte-Beuve.

  

  Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
  • Teacher
  • Wonderful
  • Judgment