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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What is history but a fable agreed upon?
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What we did ten years ago with the Playstation was a phenomenal success story for the company. That product had a ten year life cycle, which has never been done in this industry.
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Let us unite the world through the compassion for our children.
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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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Custom reconciles us to everything.
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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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Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.
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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 don't really read a lot. Maybe I should.
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
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But, as Bacon has well pointed out, truth is more likely to come out of error, if this is clear and definite, than out of confusion, and my experience teaches me that it is better to hold a well-understood and intelligible opinion, even if it should turn out to be wrong, than to be content with a muddle-headed mixture of conflicting views, sometimes miscalled impartiality, and often no better than no opinion at all.
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When a big change occurs in your life it forces you to change direction. Sometimes the new path may not be easy, but you can be absolutely certain that there is magnificence for you on the new path. You can be absolutely certain that the new path contains things that you could not have experienced otherwise. When we look back at a negative event that occurred in the past, we often see how in fact it transformed our life. We see how that event directed us toward a life that we would not change for anything.
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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.
