Alphonse Karr Quotes

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

Alphonse Karr

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• I had an interest in Scandinavian countries because I'd never seen snow.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Never
  • Interest
  • Snow

• I didn't get at first put into a rehab facility; I got put in a adolescent psychiatric unit for my detox.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • First
  • Got
  • Adolescent

• I dropped out of the business for 8 years, and I taught English as a second language. Then I decided to go back to acting, and I got 'Mad Men'.

  

  Randee Heller
  • Men
  • Business
  • English

• I think a lot of people think I'm doing kind of a character onstage, but what you're really getting is just me.

  

  Harland Williams
  • People
  • Character
  • Think

• One of the writers I most admire is Hilary Mantel because in the middle of her career, she just changed paths entirely and became just a totally different novelist.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Different
  • She
  • Career

• There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Future
  • Dream
  • Create

• When we were on 'The X Factor,' we didn't realize how overnight the fame thing was. We didn't really understand it until we went on a shopping trip. It was like Week 7 or 8 of the show. We went with a few other contestants and there were loads of people, packed.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • People
  • Week
  • Fame

• Smart authors, faced with storms, chose to create umbrellas. That's why a diverse group of authors banded together to create The Fiction Writer's Co-op, which will work to find innovative ways to promote each other's work and cheer each other on in a very competitive field.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Work
  • Why
  • Together

• Steven Adler and I played football in the street when we were 12. I remember rehearsing in my bedroom with my first band, and some kid climbed over the fence of my backyard and peeked his head in the window to see who was rocking. It was Slash.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Remember
  • Band
  • Football

• Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • People
  • Men
  • Power

• We're having such a great time on 'Nashville' that building on the relationship seemed an obvious next step. Lionsgate is the perfect home for the kind of scripted television I want to produce and direct.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Time
  • Great
  • Home

• I don't read for plot, a story 'about' this or that. There must be some kind of philosophical depth rendered into the language, something happening.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Kind
  • Language
  • Story

• If you speak to any soldier, even now, they say they are fighting for their friends. It always ends up that they're fighting for the man next to them.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Man

• I don't learn so good, no matter how good the teacher is.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Good
  • Teacher
  • Learn

• The Zionists are very much, very adventuresome, very much seeking to fabricate things, and I think they see themselves at the end of the line, and I do firmly believe that they seek to create new opportunities for themselves and their adventurous behaviors.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Believe
  • End
  • Opportunities

• I’ve studied Jonestown, radical Islam. They’re oftentimes good-hearted people, idealistic, but full of a kind of crushing certainty that eliminates doubt.

  

  Lawrence Wright
  • People
  • Good
  • Doubt

• At home, I never plate. Things go in the middle of the table, and you serve yourself. In the restaurant, every day I plate things, but at home, I want to enjoy my company.

  

  Jean-Georges Vongerichten
  • Home

• My goal is to break three hours in a marathon.

  

  Frank Shorter

• Im Kapitalismus ist eine Religion zu erblicken, d.h. der Kapitalismus dient essentiell der Befriedigung derselben Sorgen, Qualen, Unruhen, auf die ehemals die so genannten Religionen Antwort gaben.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Die

• My dad was a Muslim and would pray five times a day. I would pray with him as much as I could, in the morning before school. Sometimes he would tell us moralistic tales about genies, magic carpets and wondrous lands. My mother is not religious - she's just English.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • School
  • Mother
  • Dad

• Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.

  

  Grace Jones
  • Believe
  • Accepting
  • Complaining

• I took it for granted that there must be a few men left in the world who had that kind of strength. I assumed that those men would also be looking for women with principle. I did not want to be among the marked-down goods on the bargain table, cheap because they’d been pawed over. Crowds collect there. It is only the few who will pay full price. "You get what you pay for.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Men
  • Women
  • Price

• Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

  

  Alphonse Karr