Louis-Ferdinand Celine Quotes

With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.

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• I think fashion is actually very good training for being in the tech world, because it's all about moving on to the next thing, looking for the next thing, not getting stuck in the past.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • World
  • Good
  • Past

• The kitchen is where we deal with the elements of the universe. It is where we come to understand our past and ourselves.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Past
  • Universe
  • Understand

• If you look at the history of large financial institutions, most of them have succeeded because of a deep presence in their home market.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Home
  • History
  • Deep

• What offends me the most when I hear criticisms about this so-called Africa bias is how quick we are to focus on the words and propaganda of a few powerful, influential individuals, and to forget about the millions of anonymous people who suffer from their crimes.

  

  Fatou Bensouda
  • People
  • Words
  • Focus

• The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Life
  • Live
  • Past

• I usually travel with a posse. I roll deep. I travel like a rapper, but without the artillery. We don't carry guns, we carry cookies.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Deep
  • Travel
  • Cookies

• The biggest danger for any organism is to not identify that it's being threatened. I want to hope that people realize that the source of danger and risk in the Middle East is not the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but the deep radical Islamic vision of forming a global caliphate.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • People
  • Hope
  • Risk

• I'm really obsessed with the past.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Past
  • Really
  • Obsessed

• I fantasise about what the future could be in terms of aesthetic and psychology. It's the most difficult thing to do because you have to start from the past - your favourite architect, your favourite song - you take it all with you.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Future
  • Song
  • Past

• It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins.

  

  Jackie Stewart
  • Time
  • Done
  • Past

• There's something about girls and unicorns that's deep and meaningful. Something about childhood.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • Deep
  • Childhood
  • Meaningful

• 'Perfect' is about a set-up that looks perfect from the outside - beautiful country house, beautiful wife and mother, everything where it should be - and the deep fissures that, in fact, lie beneath that. 'Perfect' was partly a response to the shock of my first book, 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry,' being a success.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • Up
  • Country
  • Book

• People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.

  

  Barney Oliver
  • Past
  • Earth
  • Resources

• The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope - that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow.

  

  Aberjhani
  • America
  • Hope
  • Past

• I think you have to go deep into the bag of tricks, so to speak, to try and slow down the quarterback.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Think
  • Deep
  • Speak

• The writing that feels the best to me, I experience sometimes, is a kind of weirdly deep listening - like, it feels like if you just listen hard enough, the next sentence will tell you what it needs to be.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Best

• We can rebuild an alliance to fight ISIS, but we have to lead, and we have to give our allies what they are asking us to do. We do not have to march off to war, but we have to help our allies fight a war which we need them to win.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • War
  • Help
  • Win

• In the depths of the moor, the peat may be seen riven like floes of ice, and the rifts are sometimes twelve to fourteen feet deep, cut through black vegetable matter, the product of decay of plants through countless generations.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • May
  • Black
  • Deep

• Nature repairs her ravages, but not all. The uptorn trees are not rooted again; the parted hills are left scarred; if there is a new growth, the trees are not the same as the old, and the hills underneath their green vesture bear the marks of the past rending. To the eyes that have dwelt on the past, there is no thorough repair.

  

  George Eliot
  • Nature
  • Past
  • Eyes

• Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Life
  • Laughter
  • Pressure

• I'm very dogged when I believe in something. I'm also dark and twisty.

  

  Betsy Beers
  • Believe
  • Dark

• I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • God
  • School

• With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.

  

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine
  • Past
  • Deep
  • March