Albert Camus Quotes

We spend our days in deliberating, and we end them without coming to any resolve.

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• Los Angeles is a city of few hard targets. Its iconic buildings are private spaces, mostly residential, visible by invitation only or in the pages of a Taschen book. Its central industry is as mirage-like as the projection of light on a screen.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Book
  • Light
  • City

• I want to do good stories, and I want to work with really interesting people. And if it's Noah Hawley forever, that's also amazing.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars.

  

  Barney Oliver
  • Space
  • Sun
  • Stars

• I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Up
  • Father
  • Relationship

• I just think that pick-up lines in general are horrible. None of them work.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Up
  • Work
  • Think

• I don't think my father considered allowing a teenager to follow his dreams was necessarily good parenting, or even parenting. I think he thought I was a teenager with teenage impulses. I'm pretty sure he knew that if he just let me follow those impulses, it would wind up being very expensive and perhaps even life-endangering.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• I had dreams of conehead aliens when I was little. Before 'Saturday Night Live' did it. And then they came out with them, and I went on to be a glorified extra in the movie. When everyone else was laughing, I was scared.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Live
  • Movie
  • Night

• I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Acting
  • Going
  • Actress

• Distance is temporary, but our love is permanent. This may be the last time I see you, but if you keep me in your heart, together we shall be eternal; if you believe, we shall never part.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Heart

• I always feel a rise in my scalp or in the backs of my wrists when something is special, whether it be a song or a man.

  

  Doris Day
  • Song
  • Man
  • Special

• Supersonic airplanes have carried men at more than 2,000 miles per hour and there are reasons to believe that this speed will be doubled by 1960 or so.

  

  Igor Sikorsky
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Reason

• I think there are a lot of similarities between writing and music. Music is much more direct and much more emotional and that's the level I want to be at when I'm writing. Writing is much more intellectual and indirect and abstract, in a way.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgard
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Way

• Notwithstanding the poverty of my outside experience, I have always had a significance for myself, and every chance to stumle along my straight and narrow little path, and to worship at the feet of my Deity, and what more can a human soul ask for?

  

  Alice James
  • Experience
  • Soul
  • Chance

• I know exactly how strong he is... He is like a peacock, spreading his feathers and squawking loudly to distract you from the back that his body is but weak." -Jason to Mahiya

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Strong
  • Body
  • Jason

• I don't tweet or do any other social media, so I don't know what's being said out there.

  

  Jane Elliot
  • Social Media
  • Tweet

• There was no really good true war book during the entire four years of the war. The only true writing that came through during the war was in poetry. One reason for this is that poets are not arrested as quickly as prose writers.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Book
  • War

• It is true that the role of the state in the Russian economy may be too big today, but from the fiscal standpoint, it is not always practical to do this in a falling market.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • May
  • Today
  • Fall

• Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Up
  • May
  • Help

• These were people who believed everything about the Soviet Union was perfect, but they were bringing their own toilet paper.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Perfect

• There is no Latter day Saint who dies after having lived a faithful life who will lose anything because of having failed to do certain things when opportunities were not furnished him or her.

  

  Lorenzo Snow
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Days

• We spend our days in deliberating, and we end them without coming to any resolve.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Days
  • Resolve
  • Deliberating