Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious. Not necessary to life, but rather life itself, thou fillest us with a gratification that exceeds the delight of the senses.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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• Gratification

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• God doesn't want us to merely sit around dreaming about things we can do and be. That's a good place to start, but a poor place to stop. God wants us to turn our dreams into action.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Good
  • God
  • Action

• I feel like I've grown up a bit. I'm a bit more confident, and I've been reading more, and I've had a little more time to myself. I went on this writing trip to gather my thoughts about where and who I am in this world, and why we're all here.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Man
  • Hands
  • Lucky

• There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Pain
  • Gratitude
  • Revenge

• I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. It's hard enough to be happy without having legislation against you, too.

  

  Rachel Shelley
  • Happy
  • Gay
  • Boat

• I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • People
  • Thought
  • Name

• I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Pretty
  • Me
  • Reason

• As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • American
  • Mother
  • Legal

• We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • May
  • Care
  • Mistakes

• I did my thesis on clowns. It's a powerful thing when you've got this little red nose on. It's a mask, the smallest in the world, but it unveils you. You stand up there and do these exercises that free you, let you play, and see what comes out. What comes out is the truth.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Up
  • World
  • Truth

• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Music
  • Always
  • Dresses

• Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • People
  • Political
  • Independence

• Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Business
  • Career
  • Tennis

• I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Me
  • Always
  • Spirit

• I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Believe
  • Equality
  • I Believe

• A lot of my writer friends - some of whom are brilliant - work when the Muse calls them, for lack of a better description. You know, days of nothing, then this creative burst where they write for 36 hours straight fueled by caffeine and idealism.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Creative

• Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • View
  • Beliefs

• If you don't have religious fallibilism, you have immense problems.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • You
  • Religious
  • Problems

• Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Art
  • Religion
  • Spring

• I live between Barcelona and Berlin. Staying in Spain over the winter and Berlin for spring and summer is an ideal combination.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Live
  • Summer
  • Spring

• The assault of our enemies is not part of our life; it is only part of our experience; we throw it off and guard ourselves against it as against frost, storm, rain, hail, or any other of the external evils which may be expected to happen.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Enemies

• I don't want to spend my whole life watching the sun go down behind the left field bleachers.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Life
  • Want
  • Sun

• I'm very proud of my team, and the way they stood behind me - and I'm very happy to show my female fans in that audience, and even my gay fans in that audience.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Happy
  • Team
  • Proud

• Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious. Not necessary to life, but rather life itself, thou fillest us with a gratification that exceeds the delight of the senses.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Life
  • Senses
  • Gratification