Frederic Louis Sauser (Blaise Cendrars) Quotes

Writing is a noble privilege compared with the lot of most people, who live like parts of a machine, who live only to keep the gears of society pointlessly turning.

Frederic Louis Sauser

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• I have changed so much as an actor over the years.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Years
  • Actor
  • Over

• I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Know
  • Me
  • Travel

• In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • School
  • Law
  • Respect

• Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It's so ridiculous, but also astounding - we have to always be apologetic about having created the human race.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Women
  • Feeling
  • Human

• I went down to Venezuela and ended up renting a helicopter and flew with my sons to the tops of the tepuis, these freestanding jungle mesas, 'lost worlds' as it were. In fact, it's almost impossible to access them without one. So we were able to land and spend some time there. We were trapped for about six hours by clouds that came in.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Up
  • Time
  • Lost

• If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.

  

  Carl Safina
  • Food
  • Ocean
  • Creating

• We must have the time to create strict rules so that property is not sold by Communist managers for a low price. They often get payments under the table to sell to the first bidder. This does not build public support for a market economy.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Time
  • Support
  • Rules

• I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Like
  • Hero
  • See

• When you have an engagement, at least in my world, the world that I create for myself, an engagement doesn't begin when you hit the stage and end when you leave the stage. It begins when you hit the city limits, and it ends when you leave the city limits.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • World
  • City
  • Myself

• I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • People
  • Me
  • Creativity

• I am happy in Paris.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Happy
  • Paris

• One who loves God sees everything in relation to God. Therefore, their love flows spontaneously toward everyone, at all times, everywhere. They even love those who wish them harm. If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die; rather, it manifests in the form.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • God
  • Love
  • Die

• In terms of work, obviously acting is such a job that is very in the flesh kind of thing. It's your work, but it's your life, in a way. You can get so mixed up.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with the task at hand.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • Writing
  • Hand
  • Doing

• Doing theater anywhere, especially in L.A., is a constant uphill battle, and there's also the unsexy parts of the business that you're faced with, like getting money. It's a really great thing to do. You feel like you're really an artist when you're doing that and you're in a company of artists.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Great
  • Money
  • Business

• For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Why
  • Suffering
  • Sin

• I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Believe
  • Never
  • Literature

• Society waits unformed and is between things ended and things begun.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Society

• I do not ask, O Lord, that life may beA pleasant road.I do not ask that Thou wouldst take from meAught of its load;

  

  Adelaide Anne Procter
  • Life
  • May
  • Road

• Interdependence is a fact, it's not an opinion.

  

  Peter Coyote
  • Opinion

• I heard a white writer say, 'Oh, I'd never put black people in my writing, I'm afraid I would offend someone by doing it wrong.' I can't bear that!

  

  Alice Mattison
  • People
  • Writing
  • Black

• You might not agree with something, but it doesn't mean you don't need to listen to it. White people have to accept that they don't always know about racism.

  

  W. Kamau Bell
  • People
  • Racism

• Writing is a noble privilege compared with the lot of most people, who live like parts of a machine, who live only to keep the gears of society pointlessly turning.

  

  Frederic Louis Sauser
  • People
  • Writing
  • Machines