Emile Chartier Quotes
One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.Emile Chartier
Quotes to Explore
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Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny' shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion.
Gary Ross -
If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
Ralph Fiennes -
There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I'd heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans.
Dan Hicks -
I'm not afraid to call a wine that tastes like Skittles or green peppers mixed with orange marmalade. I'll say, 'It tastes like chicken.' I mean, that's not what people think of when they think of wine, but that's what it tastes like to me and it hits home.
Gary Vaynerchuk -
When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
Natalie Portman -
I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.
Ted Koppel
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Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.
Irving Layton -
Hollywood, that whole industry, is a lot like a really small town. You bump into the same people all the time. I think Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon can be played with anyone and everyone in Hollywood.
Gabourey Sidibe -
I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs.
B. B. King -
And that's what happened to that show. It started ordinary, it started really rather bad. As I said, there was a review that said, really, we think the commercials are better than the show. And then it gradually developed.
Patrick Macnee -
One of the things I like about a character: I always think it's fascinating when a character can turn on a dime and go from one emotion to another. I like watching that.
Albert Brooks
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We take things for granted, and because we wake up every day, you start talking about what you're going to do next week. I said, 'Who told you you would be here next week?'
Robert Dwayne Womack -
The people of the FBI sacrifice much for their country, and I am proud to lead this organization of dedicated agents, analysts, and professional staff.
James Comey -
As soon as I came to L.A., things immediately shifted for me. I was now actually here with the people who were making the decisions; I wasn't out in New York sending in tapes to L.A.
Chadwick Boseman -
People's attitudes have been changing over the past 15 years, but China is still the world's biggest consumer of dogs.
Jill Robinson -
I had people sleeping in front of my home. I couldn't go anywhere. It confronted me from the moment I woke up. There would be 100 people at the lot where we shot 'The Partridge Family.'
David Cassidy -
I learned a great lesson from my mother on her deathbed. She counseled me on the importance of taking care of myself so I wouldn't end up in an unhealthy body like she did.
Marie Osmond
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Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.
John Keats -
Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.
Samuel Beckett -
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind.
William R. Alger -
Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.
Andy Grove -
Courage is feeling the fear and doing it anyway.
Oprah Winfrey -
One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.
Emile Chartier