Blaise Pascal Quotes
Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.Blaise Pascal
Quotes to Explore
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
T. S. Eliot -
I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
Victoria Justice -
My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
Vidal Sassoon -
The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
I. M. Pei -
I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
R. Kelly -
People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn't be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don't have families. They don't clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.
Laura Amy Schlitz
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I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.
E. G. Marshall -
I watch a lot of television. I always have.
Aaron Tveit -
As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.
Dan O'Brien -
As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
Natalie Gulbis -
I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
J. Michael Straczynski -
When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
Bear Grylls
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
Kate McKinnon -
Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
Ian McShane -
Small aim is a crime.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
Zig Ziglar -
Anyone who's seen me before knows that when it's fight time, I don't have much to say.
Laila Ali -
I am an artist who works with Lego.
Nathan Sawaya
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Henry James and Edith Wharton are huge for me because they gave me a way to understand America while still respecting the European backgrounds of my relatives.
Claire Messud -
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
Franz Kafka -
He has known joy and violence. Felt the warmth of children and the cruelty of abuse. He has nearly died saving lives and merely been killed by a drunken act. He has known the finery of grand estates and the filth of stinking slums. He has survived fire and flood, starvation and torment. And nothing could break his spirit-or his great love. This is HIS life. He is called the horse.
Anna Sewell -
I'm very proud of my love for Whitney Houston. She really changed my life. She made my life a better life. She was so beautiful in her love for God, her love for her family and her love for music. She truly loved her music. She could do everything! She had flawless rhythm, flawless pitch, flawless feeling, and flawless beauty.
Narada Michael Walden -
There ought to be but one large art warehouse in the world, to which the artist could carry his art-works, and from which he could carry away whatever he needed. As it is, one must be half a tradesman.
Ludwig van Beethoven -
Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.
Blaise Pascal