Georges Bizet Quotes

Ah, music! What a beautiful art! But what a wretched profession!

Georges Bizet

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• I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.

  

  Kate Moss
  • School
  • Lost
  • Kind

• Treasure the things about you that make you different and unique.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Different
  • You
  • Unique

• We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Force
  • Three
  • Task

• Modesty is my best quality.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Best
  • Quality
  • Modesty

• All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Space

• Thriller novelists get asked - berated, sometimes - about whether their work glorifies bad behavior, even, exploits human tragedy for entertainment.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Work
  • Bad
  • Behavior

• I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.

  

  Larry David
  • World
  • Running
  • Challenges

• I try to be - well, not holy - but my whole family is very religious, and I want to be like that, too. So I try my hardest to be more in touch with the Lord.

  

  Nathan Gamble
  • Family
  • Want
  • Religious

• I try to eat healthy for the most part. When I cut weight, I cut pretty much everything out. I don't have protein when I cut weight other than what I might get from something like chicken breast. So I don't eat any extra protein, just because I'm trying to get the weight off. That's the only real diet I have.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Pretty

• Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Everything
  • More
  • Difference

• Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Travel

• I'm not a depressive, but I certainly have mood swings. It's an occupational hazard, I would say, and I'm glad I'm in the occupation I'm in.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Say
  • Mood
  • Swings

• Wisdom is, I suppose, the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • Great
  • Men
  • Knowledge

• Wave after waveWill flow with the tideAnd bury the world as it doesTide after tideWill flow and recedeLeaving life to go onAs it was... - Natural Science (1980)

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Life
  • World
  • Science

• I do have an occasional temper - I sort of inherited my dad's short fuse.

  

  Princess Eugenie of York
  • Dad

• We're not going to get humans to Mars until at least the mid-2030s, and the world is going to change by then.

  

  Ellen Stofan
  • World

• The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhuni, were praised as the glory of the entire African nation. I hoped then that life might offer me the opportunity to serve my people and make my own humble contribution to their freedom struggle.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • People
  • Life
  • Freedom

• I didn't do drugs. It wasn't my thing. But the drink was terrible. Today when I look back, it's like I was another person. You could call it a coping mechanism, but that would be an excuse. I just drank too much.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Today
  • Look
  • Too Much

• I rely on my iPad for on-the-go entertainment. I stock it with TV shows, like 'Parks and Recreation' and the British version of 'The Office.' I'm reading a Charles Manson biography on it too, since I'm weirdly into true crime.

  

  Phoebe Tonkin
  • True
  • Reading
  • Stock

• I've done my own videos, I do my own styling, so I feel like I've just always been a visual artist... I was one of those kids who wanted to make my own clothes and take pictures of everything. Everything inspired me, and everything felt like art around me.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • Done
  • Art
  • Kids

• As a journalist, I have wanted very much to find a way to write about the music industry, and it's been frustrating to me that that's never worked out.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Music

• I think there are some players born to play ball.

  

  Joe DiMaggio

• Ah, music! What a beautiful art! But what a wretched profession!

  

  Georges Bizet
  • Music
  • Art
  • Profession