Alexandre Dumas Quotes

Pain, thou art not an evil.

Alexandre Dumas

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• I enjoy getting gussied up for an event or date night.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Up
  • Night
  • Enjoy

• I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • People
  • Inspired
  • Appreciate

• I like to be supportive and a role model.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Like
  • Model
  • Role

• I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Time
  • Help
  • Free

• Film and television are so piecemeal. You do one scene, and then you put it to bed, and then you do a scene that comes before. In a play, you have to go from beginning to end every night, and that's harder, but also more fulfilling in a way.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Night
  • Beginning
  • End

• The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Never
  • Critics

• We live a happy life, and we don't take anything too seriously.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Life
  • Live
  • Happy

• Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Life
  • Practice
  • Mental

• If you're black, if you're gay, if you're Latin - we're all the same. We're all the same, and we all want the same: We want to be happy.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • Happy
  • Black
  • Gay

• I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Love
  • Done
  • Think

• In the Muslim world, I had seen that men with white complexions were more genuinely brotherly than anyone else had ever been. That... was the start of a radical alteration in my whole outlook about 'white men.'

  

  Malcolm X
  • World
  • Men
  • Start

• I know I'm as comfortable doing period as I am contemporary. I suppose we grow up with it in a sense, in the theater. We get to put on costumes and play a lot of period dramas or plays so we're exposed to it a little bit more I think because of our theatrical background.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Period
  • Grow
  • Theater

• I have a lot of anxiety about the red carpet. As a woman, it's uncomfortable to be in a position in which people are judging you, looking at what you're wearing, and criticizing you - not necessarily in a negative way.

  

  Fiona Gubelmann
  • People
  • Woman
  • Red

• I have learned so much from Nelson Mandela, and he has been my leader. He is a perpetual inspiration for me and millions of others around the world.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • World
  • Inspiration
  • Leader

• The 'Family Ties' role was the first of many gay roles that I've ended up playing. I remember that I made them laugh, and it made me feel good, 'cause it really cracked them up.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Up
  • Good
  • Family

• The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Work
  • Art
  • Think

• I've always loved silent movies. I recently saw 'Tilly's Punctured Romance' at the Academy, which is the first comedy made with Charlie Chaplin in 1914, and I sat there, and I couldn't believe that the entire audience of 2,000 people were laughing that hard from a movie made in 1914 - and there were no words; it was all faces.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • People
  • Believe
  • Movie

• Every fool knoweth that hatreds are the cinders of affection.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Fool

• I hate Sarah Palin, I would never vote for her, I hate her politics, but I kinda wanna fuck her. I know, it's unholy, it's so wrong. I want to eat her pussy from behind. Eskimo-style. No, you know I wouldn't eat that thing. 'Cause you know it's frozen. My tongue would stick...

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Hate
  • Style
  • Frozen

• So let us raise a cheer ... for the insatiable spirit of Man eager for all new things! What a tale could have been written by that far off man who first saw a tree trunk roll and made a wheel and cart and harnessed in his mare and cracked his whip and drove away to disappear beyond the hill! Or that first man who made a boat and raised a sail and disappeared hull down to unknown shores!

  

  Cecil Arthur Lewis
  • Spirit
  • Tree
  • Boat

• There's always been something a little pathetic for me at the work parties I've attended, especially thinking back to the restaurants I worked in. I remember a Christmas party in which we all got free T-shirts with the restaurant on the front and our names on the back.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• 'The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria...'

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • World
  • Today

• Look, pain is there in the world, and there's catharsis through that. I feel like there's... a rapture, if we can get through it, if we can confront things.

  

  Derek Cianfrance
  • World
  • Pain

• Pain, thou art not an evil.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Art
  • Pain
  • Evil