Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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• I enter my studio at 9 a.m. I have lunch here, I return right away to my work and I go out to dinner at 8 p.m. My daily tasks vary very much.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Work
  • Daily
  • Lunch

• College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • American
  • Dream
  • College

• People love to be told what they know already.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Love
  • Know

• I get tired of stories that keep going and going and never get anywhere. It's like a promise that's never fulfilled. Stories need endings. Otherwise, they aren't really stories. Just pages.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • Tired
  • Promise
  • Need

• It really bugs me the way people criticise how actors look. We're not models. Models exist.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • People
  • Me
  • Look

• Old habits die hard. I don't like spending money willy-nilly.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Money
  • Die
  • Habits

• I want to do stories that inspire people.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • People
  • Want
  • Inspire

• The most common form of giantism is a condition called acromegaly, and acromegaly is caused by a benign tumor on your pituitary gland that causes an overproduction of human growth hormone. And throughout history, many of the most famous giants have all had acromegaly.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • History
  • Growth
  • Famous

• I met my wife, Nia Vardalos, at The Second City, and she was chomping at the bit to move to L.A.

  

  Ian Gomez
  • She
  • City
  • Wife

• After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Job
  • Help
  • Man

• Someone once told me be interested, not interesting - that really clicked for me.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Someone

• When I became a mother of two, I decided to work with brands that remind me of family because they're my No. 1 priority. Now I'm partnering with Puffs to encourage people to get out and not hibernate inside. People should enjoy the holiday season, and if you do have a runny nose or the sniffles, Puffs is there to take care of your symptoms.

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • People
  • Work
  • Family

• I was a good student with mathematical ability and interests. As such, I took the usual college preparatory program in high school for one looking to become an engineer: all the available courses in mathematics and science.

  

  Dale T. Mortensen
  • Good
  • School
  • High

• It is important to stress: Africa is also a victim of the September 11 attacks.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Important
  • Stress
  • September

• I think stupid people are surprised that I'm Australian. It's a small-minded; we live in a global community, but I suppose some people still are small-minded.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Live
  • Small

• It rests in the hands of the common person as well as those with the power to shape humanity's course toward a world where every child, woman and man's most basic needs are met.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • World
  • Power
  • Man

• In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.

  

  Adam Ferguson
  • Rights
  • Equal
  • Equal Rights

• The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.

  

  Harry Browne
  • War
  • Career
  • Government

• He knows I'm brutal. He's knows I can punch hard. He knows if I connect on his chin, at any one moment, 12 three minute rounds, he's going to be in serious trouble. If he's not on the floor, his legs will do a funny dance.

  

  Carl Froch
  • Moments
  • Serious
  • Trouble

• I see a project, and I say I want to audition for it, and people let me audition for it. There's a lot to be grateful for.

  

  Nelsan Ellis
  • People

• The usual attitude of Christians towards Jews is - I hardly know whether to say more impious or more stupid, when viewed in the light of their professed principles. ... They hardly know Christ was a Jew. And I find men, educated, supposing that Christ spoke Greek. To my feeling, this deadness to the history which has prepared half our world for us, this inability to find interest in any form of life that is not clad in the same coat-tails and flounces as our own, lies very close to the worst kind of irreligion.

  

  George Eliot
  • Life
  • History
  • Greek

• And that's what innocence is. It's simple and trusting like a child, not judgmental and committed to one narrow point of view. If you are locked into a pattern of thinking and responding, your creativity gets blocked. You miss the freshness and magic of the moment. Learn to be innocent again, and that freshness never fades.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Magic
  • Moment
  • Fades

• We have sown a seed... Instead of a half-formed Europe, we have a Europe with a legal entity, with a single currency, common justice, a Europe which is about to have its own defence.

  

  Valery Giscard d'Estaing
  • Single
  • Justice

• When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery