Edouard de Pomiane Quotes

For a gourmet wine is not a drink but a condiment, provided that your host has chosen correctly.

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• I think my roles have been wonderfully varied. Not one has been racially stereotypical, and I have purposely chosen them like that.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Think
  • Like
  • Chosen

• I recall the first time my agent told me to wear clothes specifically chosen for me, I would try and find excuses not to do it.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Time
  • Me
  • Wear

• 'I have chosen you!' Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is not that you have got God but that He has got you.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Greatness
  • Keep

• While I don't often use the word, the technically precise term for my orientation is bisexual. I believe bisexuality is not a choice, it is a fact. What I have 'chosen' is to be in a gay relationship.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Believe
  • Relationship
  • Choices

• ...after a certain quantity, photos apparently taken by chance, postcards chosen according to a passing mood, begin to trace an itinerary, to map the imaginary country that stretches out before us.

  

  Chris Marker
  • Country
  • Taken
  • Chance

• My side ain't chosen. My side was given.

  

  John Marston
  • Given
  • Sides
  • Chosen

• Wickedness is a kind of voluntary frenzy, and a chosen distraction.

  

  John Tillotson
  • Kind
  • Chosen
  • Distraction

• Becoming a writer is not a 'career decision' like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don't choose it so much as get chosen, and once you accept the fact that you're not fit for anything else, you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Long
  • Decision
  • Accepting

• We all have such fateful objects -- it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another -- carefully chosen by the gods to attract events of specific significance for us: here shall John always stumble; there shall Jane's heart always break.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Heart
  • Break
  • Chosen

• When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.

  

  William Nicholson
  • Writing
  • Novel
  • Form

• It didn't occur to him that she might have chosen to remain this way. That where he saw reserve and loneliness, Cassandra saw self-preservation and the knowledge that it was safer when one had less to lose.

  

  Kate Morton
  • Way
  • Chosen
  • Remain

• Most of us have had that experience - at around puberty - of realising that, despite whatever efforts we put into our chosen sports, we will become at best competent.

  

  Will Self
  • Sports
  • Effort
  • Chosen

• The world that surrounded me disgusted me so I chosen to invent one of my own.

  

  Peter Daniell Doherty Babyshambles
  • World
  • Chosen
  • Disgusted

• They've chosen the appropriate time to discuss it is now

  

  Peter Hayes Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
  • Time
  • Chosen
  • Discuss

• You should always remember that you were chosen to be on this earth.

  

  Joe Jonas Jonas Brothers
  • Remember
  • Earth
  • Chosen

• If there was anything at all in the Book, anything of hope and peace for His blind and bewildered spawn which He had chosen above all others to offer immortality, THOU SHALT NOT KILL must be it.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Book
  • Hope
  • Kill

• I have no complaints about my path and the places it has taken me; enough complaints to fill a circus tent about other things, maybe, but the path I've chosen has always been the right one, and I wouldn't have had it any other way.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Taken
  • Path
  • Chosen

• I have very little faith that I'll ever find someone. I've had some bad luck and I've made some bad choices - not in men, but in how I've chosen to deal with relationships.

  

  Selma Blair
  • Made
  • Littles
  • Deals

• If I have taken the word, by any reason, it has been because I think it is grave to kill men, under the pretext that they are mistaken on the interpretation of some point, for we know that even the chosen ones are not exempt from sometimes being wrong.

  

  Michael Servetus
  • Thinking
  • Sometimes
  • Chosen

• It seems as though I were in a lunatic asylum, but I am never sure who is the attendant and who the inmate.

  

  James Bryant Conant
  • Lunatic asylum
  • Attendants
  • Inmate

• The most essential thing is love. Everything depends on it. Because everything even photography is for humans. There can never be a person devoid of love and photography devoid of people.

  

  Ara Guler
  • People
  • Love
  • Photography

• We can’t say why we search, except that there seems to be an innate need, in each human being, to know who one is, what we’re here for, how to live more poetically.

  

  William Segal
  • Needs
  • Human
  • Seems

• For a gourmet wine is not a drink but a condiment, provided that your host has chosen correctly.

  

  Edouard de Pomiane
  • Chosen
  • Gourmet
  • Condiments