Andre Breton Quotes

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

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• A couple of my friends started having babies, and I thought, 'Maybe one day, with the right guy.' I have to find the guy first.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Friends
  • Guy
  • Day

• When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Life
  • Children
  • Political

• You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Remember
  • Audience
  • Look

• When you're first reading the script and thinking about playing the part, it's slightly daunting. It's easy to question, 'Is an audience going to like me? And is that my job?'

  

  Laura Dern
  • Thinking
  • Job
  • Reading

• I try to do things that make me feel good. I go to yoga classes, drink a lot of water, eat healthily and keep things like alcohol and coffee to weekends. I don't overdo anything.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Good
  • Water
  • Yoga

• By preventing pneumonia and other diseases, we are giving men, women and children the chance to live healthy productive lives and participate in the global economy. In doing so, we are not only enhancing their futures - we are enhancing our own.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Men
  • Live
  • Women

• The good thing is that I'm always honest.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Good
  • Always
  • Honest

• I did direct two short movies. I learned many things, and one of the things I learned was that I am not a director. It has to be visceral, and it's not for me. I feel much more comfortable acting.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Acting
  • Movies
  • Director

• I don't know what it means to be out there against the Olympics.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Know
  • Against
  • Olympics

• Most of these pictures, taken while travelling, were developed on the mantelpiece of a hotel room, which proves that the method is easy enough to carry out.

  

  Gabriel Lippmann
  • Taken
  • Enough
  • Easy

• You think about the artists I look at as icons, and you assume they were instantly embraced. That's usually not the case. In reality, they had to overcome a lot of noes to get where they wanted to be.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Look

• People don't talk to you properly. It's the way they talk to you; they dismiss you. I think it's a combination of me being a woman and a foreigner.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • People
  • Me
  • Woman

• Maybe a day will come when we may have to just put on a pair of glasses and see sports events.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • May
  • Day
  • Sports

• If you're asking me in a general context whether I'm for or against the burkini, the response is simple: I oppose the burkini.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Me
  • Response
  • Against

• The Marine Corps taught me how to kill, but it didn't teach me how to deal with killing.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Me
  • Deal
  • Kill

• Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Success
  • Patience
  • Persistence

• When I go from a role with heavy prosthetic makeup, which I've done quite a bit of as well, and then do a role where I'm not wearing any, I have to be conscious of toning everything down. Because when you're wearing prosthetic makeup, of course, you have to really move your face a lot more to convey things through the makeup.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Done
  • Makeup
  • Down

• There is no free market for oil.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Free
  • Oil
  • Free-market

• I would rather trust my child to a serpent than to a teacher who does not believe in God.

  

  Karl G. Maeser
  • God
  • Believe
  • Trust

• When the tail of the tadpole drops off, it can live both in water and on land. When the tail of delusive ignorance drops off from man, he becomes free. He can then live in God and the world equally well.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • World
  • God
  • Live

• There's a wealth of talent that lies in all of us. All of us, including those who work in schools, must nurture creativity systematically and not kill it unwittingly.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Work
  • Lies
  • Creativity

• I never listen to the radio. If it's bad, I make fun of it, and if it's good, I get jealous that I didn't think of it.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Fun
  • Radio

• I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to. I don't want to limit myself.

  

  Aleksandar Hemon
  • Poetry

• Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

  

  Andre Breton