Alphonse Allais Quotes

Partir, c'est mourir un peu... mais mourir, c'est partir beaucoup.

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• I noticed there were so many people, especially women, who would come up to me having recognized me from TV and say, 'I heard you were a math person, why math? Oh my gosh, I could never do math!' I could just see their self-esteem crumbling; I thought that was silly, so I wanted to make math more friendly and accessible.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • People
  • Up
  • Women

• I couldn't go now to a brand that had a niche attitude like... gothic. I couldn't do that. Well, I could do it, but I wouldn't find it interesting, challenging.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Interesting
  • Attitude
  • Brand

• I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • People
  • Me
  • Waiting

• I know nothing about technology.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Know
  • Technology
  • Nothing

• Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Work
  • Man
  • Small

• Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Never
  • Again
  • Divided

• If you're writing a thriller, mystery, Western or adventure-driven book, you'd better keep things moving rapidly for the reader. Quick pacing is vital in certain genres. It hooks readers, creates tension, deepens the drama, and speeds things along.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Moving

• Mother Nature made me the way I am, and I should be happy.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • Happy
  • Mother
  • Nature

• I don't any longer make any quality judgement between theater and cinema. They are different experiences for the audience, and they also are for the actors - although they have a lot in common.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Different
  • Quality
  • Audience

• Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks you to image the world through someone else's eyes, and it allows you to try to empathize with situations that you haven't actually experienced.

  

  Dan Chaon
  • Life
  • World
  • Thinking

• dl

  

  Octavio Paz

• 'How, in this day and age, can any one of you claim to be better than your fellow human beings?''Because we are,' said Marilyn Deighton-True with a shrug. 'Face reality, Giles, or it will face you. You can spout all the socialiste nouveau crap you like, but it simply doesn’t apply to a meritocracy.'

  

  Kage Baker
  • True
  • Age
  • Reality

• As a result of its generous stand Robert Maynard Hutchins’ controversial policy of admitting students after their second year of high-school, the University of Chicago’s undergraduate college acts as the greatest magnet for neurotic juveniles since the Children’s Crusade, with Robert Maynard Hutchins…playing the role of Stephen the Shepherd Boy.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Children
  • School
  • High

• It has been my experience that the better a man you are, the more folks there are who resent you for it, and find occasion to get angry at you no matter how kindly meant your deeds may be.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • May
  • Experience
  • Angry

• It's little I know what's in my heart,What's in my mind it's little I know,But there's that in me must up and start,And it's little I care where my feet go.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Heart

• You have to love a town where you can both smoke and gamble in a pharmacy.

  

  Anthony Bourdain

• What plethora of material goods can possibly atone for a waking life so humanly belittling, if not degrading, as the push-button tasks left to human performers?

  

  Lewis Mumford
  • Life

• The White Knight must not have whiskers; he must not be made to look old.

  

  Lewis Carroll

• We must look not to the negative (the misery, the bestial in life), although we undergo it and sympathize with it, but rather to the burgeoning life around us, which is strengthened by the negative.

  

  Piet Mondrian
  • Life

• C'était l'heure où l'essaim des rêves malfaisantsTord sur leurs oreillers les bruns adolescents.

  

  Charles Baudelaire

• I think I'm okay at everything and not spectacular at any one thing that Kaggle does.

  

  Anthony Goldbloom

• Prayer, desperate prayer, seems so simple, but it’s a step rarely taken by those in family conflict.

  

  Erwin W. Lutzer
  • Family
  • Prayer
  • Conflict

• Partir, c'est mourir un peu... mais mourir, c'est partir beaucoup.

  

  Alphonse Allais