George Sand Quotes

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

George Sand

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• I think artists are really the root of a tree. They can search for truth or reality in their own way, and the gallery can support them - the outside part of the tree, where it is more about reaching the outside world, connecting with the outside world. That is the role of the gallery, no? Why does the artist have to do that?

  

  A. Balasubramaniam
  • World
  • Why
  • Truth

• No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • You
  • Matter
  • Afraid

• Jersey gets a bad rap. Most people make an assessment of this state on the ride from Newark Airport into Manhattan.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • People
  • Bad
  • Rap

• You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Why
  • Game
  • Man

• I've been playing my instrument since I was about three or four. That's when I started banging around on the piano, trying to be like The Beatles.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Trying
  • Three
  • Piano

• Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Real
  • Alone
  • Prayer

• We should not underestimate the harm it would bring should it be published.

  

  Vasily Grossman

• Lying rumours do not penetrate farther than our ears.

  

  Aeschines

• My one thing is respect. I don't care about anything else. You should respect everyone around you - the people who work for you, peers. Be classy.

  

  Charli XCX
  • People
  • Work
  • Respect

• I don't want to be famous or recognizable. I don't want to be critiqued about the way that I look on the Internet... I've been writing pop songs for pop stars for a couple years and see what their lives are like, and that's just not something I want.

  

  Sia LSD
  • Writing
  • Couple
  • Famous

• The stuff coming out of Silicon Valley is dorky. Like, it's not very sexy.

  

  Jason Calacanis
  • Sexy

• I hate the thought of my children being glued to a screen. Children only play on computers all day because their parents let them.

  

  Mariella Frostrup
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Hate

• Bill O'Reilly is like a comfortable pair of shimmeringly angry slippers, but you know every night what you're going to get.

  

  Piers Morgan
  • Night
  • Angry

• The bottom line is that when Senator Inhofe says, 'Global warming is a hoax,' he is just dead wrong, according to the vast majority of climate scientists.

  

  Bernie Sanders

• My theme this evening is that America needs a competitive dollar.

  

  Martin Feldstein
  • America

• You could think of extraordinary examples to the contrary: The Grapes of Wrath... and even into the 70s.

  

  Charlton Heston

• I'm probably most inspired by good street style that features items I already own; it's always great to see how another person wears something you have, which sort of reinvents it for you.

  

  Leandra Medine
  • Good
  • Great
  • Style

• I never, ever read the comments below an article on the Web. People are mean. I'm a human being.

  

  Katori Hall
  • People

• I'm constant like the seasons, and I will never be forgotten man.

  

  Jeremy McKinnon A Day to Remember
  • Man
  • Seasons

• Whether you do stand-up comedy or write a story, you have a duty to deliver. As a comedian, you walk out on stage, and you have a minute to hook them, or they'll start booing. As a writer, it's very similar. A reader doesn't have time to say, 'I'll give him 50 pages, as it's not very good yet, but I hope it'll get better.'

  

  Mark Billingham
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• To me, the producing falls into the same as acting. It requires so much time out of your life, and I take it very personally, I realize. So if I do something, it just has to be something I love and I don't want anyone else to do. When I open projects, maybe something will appeal to me. I think I'm not opening them because I don't want anything to appeal to me right now.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Thinking
  • Fall
  • Acting

• You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

  

  George Sand
  • Thinking
  • Silence
  • Prevent