Andre Gide Quotes

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

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• I will keep working hard!

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Working
  • Will
  • Working Hard

• I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Bad
  • You
  • Count

• I do not remember exactly when I became interested in astronomy, but I know it was at a very young age. I did organize an astronomy club for my friends at the age of 11. We would meet once a week to learn about the constellations.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • Age

• I think same sex couples should be able to get married.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Think
  • Sex
  • Same

• I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Know

• Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.

  

  Larry Page
  • People
  • Power
  • Focus

• I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • Think
  • Always
  • Luck

• The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Good
  • Play
  • Tennis

• Doo-wop is the true music to me, man. Doo-wop was what nurtured me and grew me into who I am, and I guess even when I was in school, the teacher probably thought I had ADD or something every day, because I'd be beating on the desks, singing like the Flamingos or the Spaniels or Clyde McPhatter or somebody.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Music
  • School
  • True

• You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Party
  • Always
  • Leave

• The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.

  

  Os Guinness
  • Heart
  • Freedom
  • Enemy

• I was addicted to the original 'Star Trek' when I was growing up, because of my dad. We grew up in St. Helens, Oregon and we weren't allowed to watch a lot of TV.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Dad

• I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • World
  • Love
  • Giving

• Ultimately love is everything.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • For Him
  • Love Is
  • Ultimately

• It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Me
  • Play
  • Album

• I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Good
  • Game
  • Evil

• I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Live
  • Vision
  • Young

• If you just give somebody a blank check without any deliverables associated with that, you're not going to get the improvements that you want to get.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • Want
  • You
  • Going

• It's fun when the ball is going in the hole and things are going right, but it's a miserable game when things aren't going well.

  

  Fuzzy Zoeller
  • Fun
  • Game

• However, I must stress that my own interest is immediate and in the picture. What I am conscious of and what I feel is the picture I am making, the relation of that picture to others I have made and, more generally, its relation to others I have experienced.

  

  Aaron Siskind
  • Picture
  • Feel
  • Conscious

• I would never go travelling on my own. Some people like to go backpacking alone, but there's no way I would do that, even if you paid me - I just don't see the point. If I discover something beautiful, for me it's very important to be able to share it with someone and not just see it for myself.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • People
  • Important
  • Beautiful

• Three directors whose work directly influences mine are Paul Thomas Anderson, Darren Aronofsky and Susanne Bier (her Danish films). You'll notice that they all don't make feel good movies, same as me, and their films are always visually simple but beautiful (and I hope mine are!).

  

  Chika Anadu
  • Beautiful
  • Simple
  • Film

• Sometimes people with strong ideology, whether left-wing or right-wing, refuse to do something simply because they believe it is wrong, when doing it actually benefits them. For some people, it's not just about money and political power.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • People
  • Believe
  • Money

• Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

  

  Andre Gide
  • Beautiful
  • Inspired