Anatole France Quotes

On croit mourir pour la patrie; on meurt pour les industriels.

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• Israeli citizens deserve full-time ministers.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Time
  • Deserve
  • Citizens

• I do think one should have clean feet.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Think
  • Feet
  • Clean

• Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and I were so different from each other. I was doing very young movies, and Marilyn, who was ahead of me, was doing a lot of homogenized movies that weren't quite as wild as the ones I was doing. Jayne was more of a character of herself.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Character
  • Movies
  • Young

• Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Age
  • Religion
  • Test

• So the storm passed and every one was happy.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Happy
  • Storm
  • Passed

• I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting time of life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Good
  • Character
  • Bad

• Emily Gannett is tireless. I know this because I have traded emails with her at 2 A.M. only to later wake blearily to a chipper morning missive sent south of 6 A.M. before her morning run.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Know
  • Morning
  • Blearily

• There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Work
  • Men
  • Man

• I certainly think it's really important that folks in the metropolitan area be able to meet the increased cost of living.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Important
  • Think
  • Living

• I don't personally do movies for myself and a faction of very cerebral cinephiles - I do it for everybody and wish for the largest amount of people to relish whatever they find they can relish in.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Wish
  • Myself

• They still had the Lord Chamberlain, so we had this idiotic censorship. We were allowed three Jesus Christs instead of 10. Why three were OK, I don't know.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Why
  • Know
  • Jesus

• I inherited them, so I got it like that. But I hear you can actually get dimples for a certain price if you really want them. I was getting my nails done once, and this lady asked me, 'Are those real? In my country, they pay a lot of money for those.' And I was like, 'Really?' I think she was from Malaysia.

  

  Camille Guaty
  • Country
  • Real
  • Money

• When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Character
  • Trust
  • Leave

• When I left Michigan and I came to New York, that was my goal, to be a professional dancer. And I sort of fell into singing by accident in a way.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Singing
  • Goal
  • Professional

• The formula for a hit is saying what people want to hear.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Want
  • Saying

• Slowly, ideas lead to ideology, lead to policies that lead to actions.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Ideas
  • Actions
  • Lead

• Since light is best expressed through differences in color quality, color should not be handled as a tonal gradation, to produce the effect of light.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Light
  • Quality
  • Color

• It’s wonderful news from St Mary’s Paddington, and I’m sure that right across the country, and indeed right across the Commonwealth, people will be celebrating and wishing the Royal couple well.

  

  David Cameron
  • People
  • Country
  • Couple

• I want work that, possessing as thin a membrane as possible between life and art, foregrounds the question of how the writer solves being alive.

  

  David Shields
  • Life
  • Work
  • Art

• The glare of that much-mentioned brilliance, love,  Broke out, to showIts bright incipience sailing above,Still promising to solve, and satisfy,And set unchangeably in order. So  To pile them back, to cry,Was hard, without lamely admitting howIt had not done so then, and could not now.

  

  Philip Larkin
  • Done
  • Sailing

• There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way.

  

  Michael Nesmith The Monkees
  • People
  • Way
  • Thieves

• Unless a love of virtue light the flame, Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others' bare.

  

  William Cowper
  • Air
  • Virtue
  • Blame

• On croit mourir pour la patrie; on meurt pour les industriels.

  

  Anatole France