Albert Camus Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.
-
George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were gay, just for starters. They didn't have a name for it, but their primary affections and intellectual attractions were all for other men.
-
The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
-
For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains.
-
I think just being on 'One Tree Hill' has given me a lot of confidence.
-
There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.
-
Sometimes we all work so hard to overcome various things, and we are very cruel as a society and tough on people who we think aren't trying hard enough.
-
My memory is basically visual: that's what I remember, rooms and landscapes. What I do not remember are what the people in these room were telling me. I never see letters or sentences when I write or read, but only the images they produce.
-
I would say that 'Shake It Up' was a chance for me to do two things I really love: acting and dancing.
-
Real Texans want their kids to have the best education possible, not the one politicians looking to brag about budget cuts have left us with.
-
This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
-
It's just difficult to see that people want to be like the actors and the performers and the politicians who are - who they see all the time, but the people that are probably having the most fun are the writers and the directors and the producers and the scientists, right, the people in the back that are getting to do the creative process.
-
Before someone can change his ideas, he has to open his heart.
-
I see the human in everyone and everything. No one is more important than anyone else; I still hang out with my high school friends.
-
The tradition of classical music and the opera is such that it used to be the place where social intercourse could take place between all parts of society: politicians, industrialists, artists, citizens, etc. That tradition, I think, still exists, but it's much, much more diluted.
-
I think Sydney has so much natural beauty; it's just a beautiful city.
-
As for a fantasy life, working women are more likely to fantasize about finding the perfect child care provider who she can both trust and afford. She might also fantasize that tonight her husband will both shop for and cook dinner.
-
Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov
-
Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner - and then to thinking! ... I begin to feel, think, and be myself again. Instead of an awkward silence, broken by attempts at wit or dull common-places, mine is that undisturbed silence of the heart which alone is perfect eloquence.
-
People will be able to survive, of course, without honeycreepers and monk seals. But if the wolf spider is in trouble, we are in trouble, too.
-
Carl Sagan always used to say that when he was trying to explain something to someone, he would go back to that time when he didn't understand it, and then he would retrace his thought steps so that he could make it absolutely clear, and that's one of the infinite number of things I learned from him.
-
To err is nature, to rectify error is glory.
-
One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it.
