Christine de Pizan Quotes

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

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Age

• 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

• 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

• I think Edie Sedgwick comes back, too. Every five or six years, there is always something about Edie, because she was so modern and stylish and elegant and hippie-ish, all at the same time. So I think that people will always love her.

  

  Francois Nars
  • People
  • Time
  • She

• I'm not going to talk about Picasso. I have done my duty to those memories. I have had a great career as an artist myself, you know. I'm not here just because I've spent time with Picasso.

  

  Francoise Gilot
  • Time
  • Great
  • Done

• My mom was a cheerleader and had me as a teenager. I remember her giving me some pom-poms and teaching me how to do some splits when I was 3 or 4.

  

  Christine Flores
  • Remember
  • Giving
  • Mom

• I was an accomplished computer trespasser. I don't consider myself a thief. I copied without permission.

  

  Kevin Mitnick

• Everything that happens to me is very cosmic.

  

  Tommy Chong
  • Happens
  • Cosmic

• It's a trap I've fallen into earlier in my career - trying to be liked. Don't do it. When I watch TV and I see someone trying to make me like them, acting cute or quirky or goofy, I'm not impressed. Don't act like America's watching you. Just latch onto your character. Characters are flawed. Be unlikeable. Be flawed. Be a person.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Trying
  • Character
  • America

• Growing up, I was a little hippie kid. I went to some good concerts... Amnesty International with Bob Dylan and Tracy Chapman... The best concert I ever went to was this one at the Cow Palace my freshman year in college on New Year's Eve. It was Pearl Jam opening for Nirvana opening for Red Hot Chili Peppers.

  

  Summer Sanders
  • Up
  • Good
  • Growing

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

  

  Christine de Pizan
  • Fire
  • Smoke