Amelie Nothomb Quotes

I eat in a strange way, but I enjoy it. Everything became well when I finally understood that I enjoy being hungry. Normally, I only eat in the evening.

Amelie Nothomb

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• Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Great
  • You
  • Learning

• These are estimates that are done by the experts as to how much they expect we could get from the first lease sale that would take place in ANWR, and the estimate is about $2.5 billion.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Done
  • Place
  • First

• You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • You
  • Difference
  • Tell

• I prefer to believe it's my responsibility if a film of mine works or doesn't work.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Responsibility

• I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Death
  • Wife
  • Wounded

• I've always dreamed of having a large family.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Family
  • Always
  • Large Family

• Sometimes you surf well and still don't win. It happens to everyone. You learn that one big score doesn't mean much if you don't have a backup. I guess every rookie learns that as time goes by. I took some big lessons from my losses.

  

  Gabriel Medina
  • Time
  • Learn
  • Win

• I want to have all that scientific information that we're building be used in designing the future so that people who make geographic decisions - and here it's not just land-use planners, but it's everyone: foresters, transportation engineers, people who buy a house - can analyze all of these information layers and design a future.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • People
  • Future
  • House

• While watching him work on the set of the film based on my life - Patch Adams - I saw that whenever there was a stressful moment, Robin would tap into his improvisation style to lighten the mood of cast and crew.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Life
  • Work
  • Style

• I'm always trying to find something new for my customers. Every season, I try to top myself and push it a little further.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Trying
  • Myself
  • Season

• A lot of my joy this year has been to give away awards to young people, no matter of race, creed or color, because they were a terrific violinist or a terrific dancer.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • People
  • Joy
  • Color

• When I was starting out, William Goldman took me under his wing, and he's still the person I show pages to.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Me
  • Person
  • Starting

• We will that all men know we blame not all the lords, nor all those that are about the king's person, nor all gentlemen nor yeomen, nor all men of law, nor all bishops, nor all priests, but all such as may be found guilty by just and true inquiry and by the law.

  

  Jack Cade
  • Men
  • May
  • True

• How could you lose me, when you've never had me, never wanted me?

  

  Orson Scott Card

• There was a very consistent creation of a virtual reality, and eventually it collided with our old-fashioned, ordinary reality.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Reality

• Poetry is for the inner ear

  

  Vachel Lindsay
  • Poetry

• He would milk the white man....The white man had more money than sense.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Money

• As the man, so his God

  

  Amos Bronson Alcott
  • God

• When, as a child, I first opened my eyes on a Sunday-morning, a feeling of dismal anicipation, which began at least on the Friday,culminated. I knew what was before me, and my wish, if not my word, was "Would God it were evening!" It was no day of rest, but a day of texts, of catechisms Watts, of tracts about converted swearers, godly charwomen, and edifying deaths of sinners saved.... There was but one rosy spot, in the distance, all that day: and that was "bed-time," which never could come too early!

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Children
  • Morning
  • Friday

• I love a modern suit paired with a polo or cotton T-shirt... and then paired with leather sneakers, or cashmere joggers with a tailored blazer and a sleeveless puffer vest to get the ultimate informal and formal combination.

  

  Brunello Cucinelli

• I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Why
  • Playing
  • Hardest

• Like academic Marxists, who are their sisters under the skin, libertarians are far more interested in an ideal world than in the one where ordinary humans live.

  

  Jacob Weisberg
  • World
  • Live

• I find it very easy to be alone. I'm a writer, for heaven's sakes!

  

  Simon Mawer
  • Alone
  • Easy
  • Writer

• I eat in a strange way, but I enjoy it. Everything became well when I finally understood that I enjoy being hungry. Normally, I only eat in the evening.

  

  Amelie Nothomb