Georges Bataille Quotes

Sovereignty, loyalty, and solitude.

Georges Bataille

• Solitude
• Sovereignty

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• In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Simple

• Actors and directors work on things together. That's how I like to work, anyway. I don't want to be told what to do. I want to share it with someone and work it out together.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Work
  • Together
  • Want

• I received an impassioned letter from Sonoko. There was no doubt that she was truly in love. I felt jealous. Mine was the unbearable jealousy a cultured pearl must feel toward a genuine one. Or can there be such a thing in this world as a man who is jealous of the woman who loves him, precisely because of her love?

  

  Yukio Mishima
  • World
  • She
  • Doubt

• One of the limits of reality Presents itself in Oley when the hay, Baked through long days, is piled in mows. It is A land too ripe for enigmas, too serene.… Things stop in that direction and since they stop The direction stops and we accept what is As good. The utmost must be good and is…

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Good
  • Long
  • Reality

• A nightcap decked his brows instead of bay,A cap by night — a stocking all the day!

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Night

• Tell people that war is an evil, and they will laugh; for who does not know it? Tell them that patriotism is an evil, and most of them will agree, but with a reservation. 'Yes,' they will say, 'wrong patriotism is an evil; but there is another kind, the kind we hold.' But just what this good patriotism is, no one explains.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • People
  • Good
  • War

• What IS is more important than WHAT SHOULD BE. To many people are looking at 'what is' from a position of thinking 'what should be.'

  

  Bruce Lee
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Important

• God is the biggest storyteller, and when we create stories, we connect with him and with each other across cultural, religious and gender boundaries.

  

  Elif Safak
  • God
  • Religious

• To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death.

  

  Jacqueline Cochran
  • Live
  • Death
  • Risk

• If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.

  

  Jesus Christ
  • Perfect
  • Heaven

• It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity.

  

  Peter Bart

• The American people are so much stronger, so much more resolved than any enemy can fully understand.

  

  Joe Biden
  • People
  • American
  • Enemy

• The experiencing self lives its life continuously. It has moments of experience, one after the other.

  

  Daniel Kahneman
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Moments

• An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs.

  

  John Ashcroft
  • People

• Great teachers are the ones who inspire you.

  

  Martin Landau
  • Great

• I'm about this shmoney.

  

  Cardi B

• They told me that I had a leaky valve, which is something that is certainly not life-threatening. It's common and it's something that had I not known about it, would I have lived? Sure. But it's something that I think is important to know, especially as I get older and given that I have heart disease in my family.

  

  Jennie Garth
  • Life
  • Important
  • Family

• Great horror movies are earned. 'Halloween' is an earned picture. Every moment of grotesque violence is earned by the suspense they're able to maintain getting there.

  

  John Carroll Lynch
  • Great
  • Violence
  • Picture

• One of my grandfathers was a blacksmith, and all the plumbers and carpenters and electricians, people who did things with their hands, thought of themselves as artists because they were good at doing things. They were proud of their making things.

  

  Kenneth Noland
  • People
  • Good
  • Proud

• I'm filthy rich! It's good to be Adam Sandler!

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Good
  • Rich
  • Adam

• Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

  

  Louis Aragon
  • People
  • Different
  • Solitude

• Sometimes people who are never alone are the loneliest, don't you think so?

  

  A. I. Bezzerides
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Alone

• Ut cuique homini res parata est, firmi amici sunt : si res labat, itidem amici collabascunt. Res amicos invenit.

  

  Plautus

• Sovereignty, loyalty, and solitude.

  

  Georges Bataille
  • Solitude
  • Sovereignty