Marcel Proust Quotes
Conversation, which is friendship's mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a lifetime without doing more than indefinitely repeat the vacuity of a minute.
Marcel Proust
Quotes to Explore
Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
W. Somerset Maugham
I firmly believe, only because I've been doing this for so long, every show takes three years. 90% of them don't get three years. It just does. It takes a long time to build a community, build a friendship with your characters. It's hard for people to grasp on and make them care about you.
Kaley Cuoco
Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
Namie Amuro
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
Oliver Goldsmith
I mix talents and friendship, which is not very professional, but it's my way of thinking. So I love Azzedine Alaia, because I've known him for 30 years, and he's making my dresses most of the time.
Carine Roitfeld
I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.
Patrick White
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
Saint Basil
I lend people money, but I'd never lend something that would jeopardise a friendship if I didn't get it back.
Paloma Faith
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
Pablo Picasso
During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.
J. Paul Getty
Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
But it's a fact that guaranteed contracts set up the roster you're going to have. If (kids) do make it, the decision becomes whether you eat one of those big contracts.
Pat Quinn
My career has had a lot of ups and downs, but basically it has been wonderful.
Jean Simmons
There are many people like me who believe firmly, if somewhat incoherently, that pockets on this planet are filled with what humans have left behind them, both good and evil, and that any such spiritual accumulation can stay there forever, past definition of such a stern word.
M. F. K. Fisher
Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.
George A. Sheehan
Conversation, which is friendship's mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a lifetime without doing more than indefinitely repeat the vacuity of a minute.
Marcel Proust
