Christine de Pizan Quotes

There is no fire without smoke but there is often smoke without fire.

Christine de Pizan

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• I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Age

• You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.

  

  Laura Lang
  • Life
  • Work
  • Important

• I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Blame
  • Vulnerability
  • Instinctive

• Be very, very patient and very open-minded, and listen to what people have to say.

  

  AJ McLean
  • People
  • Listen
  • Open-minded

• I wouldn't mind being like X-Men and having the claws. I mean, I don't think they'd let me play football, but it would look cool.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Football

• There were clouds like sharks with open jaws in the sky that morning.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Morning
  • Sky
  • Clouds

• Lir chiseled at the stone. It would take a month to make a perceptible impression on it. He had a few hours. Work harder, then.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Work

• If He who in Himself can lack nothing chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.

  

  C. S. Lewis

• Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ, by commanding his followers to lay down their own lives.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Death
  • Jesus

• Adia I do believe I failed you.Adia I know I let you down.Don't you know I tried so hardTo love you in my way.It's easy let it go...Adia I'm empty since you left me.Trying to find a way to carry on.I search myself and everyoneTo see where we went wrong.

  

  Sarah McLachlan
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • Search

• First there was space-endless, limitless space, so far from everything, so brutal, so frigid, so uncaring that it numbed the mind, not so much from fear or loneliness as from the realization that in this eternity of space the thing that was himself was dwarfed to an insignificance no yardstick could measure.

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • Mind
  • Fear
  • Space

• In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Bridge

• My grandfather was a police officer. He taught Dad about lie detectors and police interrogation methods, so Dad got this old World War II lie detector and used it on us regularly. He was obsessed with the truth.

  

  Brian Herbert
  • World
  • Truth
  • War

• I would die if I had to be confined. I don't want to feel that I'm missing out on experiencing as much as I can. For me, experiencing is knowing people all over the world and being able to photograph.

  

  Mary Ellen Mark
  • People
  • World
  • Die

• My husband does so many romantic things for me, it's absurd.

  

  Jennifer Beals
  • Husband
  • Romantic

• If you feel pain, you have to make up your mind whether you can play with it or not.

  

  James Worthy
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Pain

• I did actually have a deal with Columbia, but it became increasingly clear to me after signing with them that they didn't know what to do with me and I didn't know what to do for them, so we agreed to go our separate ways.

  

  Amanda Marshall

• Fashion is a way you can express yourself, so it's good stuff, you know?

  

  Lucky Blue Smith
  • Good
  • Fashion

• A lean, loose-jointed Negro had commenced plunking a guitar beside me while I slept. His clothes were rags; his feet peeped out of his shoes. His face had on it some of the sadness of the ages. As he played, he pressed a knife on the strings of the guitar in a manner popularized by Hawaiian guitarists who used steel bars. The effect was unforgettable.

  

  William Christopher Handy
  • Age
  • Sadness
  • Bars

• I feel like some sort of fiction-writing hobo, jumping trains and always hoping I'll find a good place to start a fire in the next town. And I keep having these panicky episodes where I corner my husband and rant at him: 'I don't have anywhere to write! I can't write! I don't have a place to write!'

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Fire

• The rising cost of prescription drugs has sparked a prairie fire that is spreading across our nation.

  

  Tim Pawlenty
  • Fire
  • Drug
  • Cost

• Le seul véritable voyage, le seul bain de Jouvence, ce ne serait pas d'aller vers de nouveaux paysages, mais d'avoir d'autres yeux, de voir l'univers avec les yeux d'un autre, de cent autres, de voir les cent univers que chacun d'eux voit, que chacun d'eux est.

  

  Marcel Proust

• I've always been athletic and a dancer, so I love doing fight choreography.

  

  Katrina Law
  • Dancer
  • Athletic
  • Choreography

• There is no fire without smoke but there is often smoke without fire.

  

  Christine de Pizan
  • Fire
  • Smoke