Frederic Louis Sauser (Blaise Cendrars) Quotes
One's life, from being an exterior thing, grows inwards. Its intensity stays the same; and, d'you know, it's most mysterious, the corners in which the joy of living can sometimes hide away.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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I have not intended to denigrate or hurt the beliefs of anyone through my art.
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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Mark Twain created a new type of literature and not a lot of people can say that. Not a lot of people can say they're absolutely original and completely self-made.
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I find short, fast romances romantic. There's a beauty to dark imagery.
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We need to write books that publicists and marketers and booksellers and book club leaders and librarians and readers can get excited about. That have something about them that makes them stand out. That makes them shine.
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I had so many faux-parents.
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We are all losers in comparison to Malala Yousafzai. But we are not all geniuses. Like me.
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I sort of fall apart in terms of stamina after about 25 minutes!
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.
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My grandmother is the person who inspires me the most.
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I have no big career plan. It is better for me that way.
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I would love to do an electronic record. There's just so much to see and do and try. And life goes by.
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No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.
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Whether you're a Twitter follower, a YouTube subscriber or a Facebook friend, natural social instinct is to collect people and to not kind of see them later. But unfortunately, with social media, you collect them and they're in your life, whether you really want them or not.
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Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All too often, lives and families can be shattered by it.
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I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories.
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It's totally natural to me to be vegan.
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We all live inside bodies that will deteriorate. But when you look at human beings, they're capable of very decent things: love, loyalty. When time is running out, they don't care about possessions or status. They want to put things right if they've done wrong.
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Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. One should earn one's living by work of which one is sure one is capable. Only when we do not have to be accountable to anybody can we find joy in scientific endeavor.
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I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
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One's life, from being an exterior thing, grows inwards. Its intensity stays the same; and, d'you know, it's most mysterious, the corners in which the joy of living can sometimes hide away.
