Emile Chartier Quotes

The most difficult thing in the world is to say thinkingly what everybody says without thinking.

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• A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Movie
  • Humanity
  • Human

• The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Money
  • Man
  • Enjoy

• Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Live
  • Alone
  • Beauty

• Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Attitude
  • Look
  • Youth

• Basically I hate categorical labels. As a young artist I already was very clear about this - that 'objectification' is not the final aim of art. For there are greater things than the object. The greatest thing is the human mind.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Hate

• We can't afford to cede our leadership in developing and deploying the advanced, clean fuels of the future that will grow our economy, lower our energy bills, reduce pollution, and protect the health of our families and communities. And America's farmers and rural communities have to be at the heart of this effort.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Heart
  • America
  • Future

• Some fella said to me, 'Have you had LSD, Paul?' And I said 'Yes.' And it was only 'cuz I was going to just be honest with him. There's no other reason. I didn't want to spread it or anything, you know. I'm not trying to do anything except answer his question. But he happened to be a reporter, and I happened to be a Beatle.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Trying
  • Question

• An interesting thing about New Zealand, you know, literature is that it really didn't begin in any real sense until the 20th century.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • Real
  • Interesting
  • Literature

• My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled.

  

  Bill Rodgers
  • Distance

• I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.

  

  Brigitte Bardot
  • Society
  • Marriage

• This archaic idea - that a woman who is unmarried and childless at 30 is somehow unnatural - will probably always exist, and, like most social standards, it is ridiculous.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson

• When you're a writer, everything that interests you feeds into your work.

  

  Dave Morris
  • Work

• We have to continue to do the work, because we can't see people lose their lives over senseless gun violence.

  

  Karamo Brown
  • People
  • Work
  • Violence

• The initials BP used to stand for British Petroleum, but like Kentucky Fried Chicken, they changed their name to improve their image. Apparently, 'Petroleum,' like the word 'Fried,' connoted a company too oily for American tastes.

  

  Luis Gutierrez
  • American

• There are no limits to what I would do to make my classes exciting, interesting, unpredictable.

  

  Philip Zimbardo
  • Interesting

• I think the Pistons have such a well rounded team, which is why they're so successful. All you have to do is look at the stats defensively and at their rebounding and scoring.

  

  Chuck Daly
  • Why
  • Team

• I want to live 50 more years. I'm 33 years old... and I want to live to at least be 80 and see my kids grow up and see my grandkids. That's important to me.

  

  Alonzo Mourning
  • Up
  • Important
  • Live

• I think a lot of us have some form of body dysmorphia... You're looking in the mirror, and you're kind of disassociated in some way. I think a good reminder is to actually, physically touch yourself. 'Ah, okay, this is what my arm feels like. It's not what I'm mutating in my head. I'm not some sort of scary monster.'

  

  Mary Lambert
  • Good
  • Scary
  • Mirror

• Someone once asked me what I want on my epitaph when I pass away. Just the words 'I tried.' That's what this game of life is all about. Trying. There's the tryers, the criers, and the liars.

  

  Mickey Rooney
  • Trying
  • Games
  • Passing

• Embarrassed journalists ask me embarrassing questions, and they get embarrassing answers, and then hand out embarrassing stories to the embarrassing editors, who put them to the front pages of newspapers. When is this going to end?

  

  Yao Ming
  • Hand

• If age, which is certainly Just as wicked as youth, look any wiser, It is only that youth is still able to believe It will get away with anything, while age Knows only too well that it has got away with nothing.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Believe
  • Age
  • Wicked

• The most difficult thing in the world is to say thinkingly what everybody says without thinking.

  

  Emile Chartier
  • Thinking
  • Difficult Things