Marcel Proust Quotes

I have a horror of sunsets; they're so romantic, so operatic.

Marcel Proust

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• Sunset

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• I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Power
  • Laughter
  • Horror

• I think female-centric films shouldn't be only about thriller or horror. Angelina Jolie has been doing all kinds of stuff.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Think
  • Doing
  • Horror

• When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn't how people fall in love.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Feel

• I remember we would get young, aspiring actors to come on '77 Sunset Strip' - I remember George Kennedy was one of those - and they would do a big guest star part, a lead, and they'd be paid maybe $850.

  

  Edd Byrnes
  • Remember
  • Star
  • Sunset

• When one knows at an early age that their gift, talent and direction is musical, one tends to focus on that and let nothing interfere or impede the forward motion toward the end of that rainbow. And after 50-something years of rockin' out, you still realise there is no end to that distant rainbow until one's last sunset.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Age
  • Focus
  • Gift

• I love horror movies.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Love
  • Movies
  • Horror

• All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Dream
  • See
  • Romantic

• I don't know if it's possible to live the rock 'n roll lifestyle and still be romantic.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Live
  • Rock
  • Romantic

• I am such a diehard romantic. I guess a part of me thinks I am Juliet.

  

  Olivia Hussey
  • Romantic
  • Juliet
  • Diehard

• I've always loved the language of flowers. I discovered Kate Greenaway's 'Language of Flowers' in a used bookstore when I was 16 and couldn't believe it was such a well-kept secret. How could something so beautiful and romantic be virtually unknown?

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Believe
  • Beautiful
  • Romantic

• I love stories with love in them. I just prefer those films. Every so often, I come across a film where there's no love story. It doesn't have to be romantic, but there's a lack of love, and I don't get that.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Film
  • Story
  • Romantic

• I'm a bit of a romantic. In theory!

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Romantic
  • Theory
  • Bit

• Movies are romantic fantasies.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Movies
  • Romantic
  • Fantasies

• I was pleasantly disappointed on entering Bohemia. Instead of a dull, uninteresting country, as I expected, it is a land full of the most lovely scenery. There is every thing which can gratify the eye - high blue mountains, valleys of the sweetest pastoral look and romantic old ruins.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Country
  • High
  • Romantic

• One of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Earth
  • Sunset

• The State is a jealous God and will brook no rivals.  Its sovereignty must pervade everyone and all feeling must be run into the stereotyped forms of romantic patriotic militarism which is the traditional expression of the State herd-feeling.

  

  Randolph Bourne
  • God
  • Feeling
  • Romantic

• Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity. Of all novelists in any country, Trollope best understands the role of money. Compared with him even Balzac is a romantic.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Country
  • Money
  • Romantic

• Perhaps I've been perceived more as a romantic comedy actor, but overall, I enjoy acting in any shape or form.

  

  Jaime Federico Said Camil Saldaña da Gama
  • Comedy
  • Romantic

• I want to do all kinds of things. I want to do some comedy. I'd love to do a romantic comedy, and I'd love to do some period pieces with classical text. I'd love somebody to cast me as Macbeth, but for a film. I just want to be all over the place.

  

  Kevin Alejandro
  • Comedy
  • Period
  • Romantic

• Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if not outright fear.

  

  Alvin Adams
  • Fear
  • Attitude

• I swear, I have no understanding of other human beings.

  

  E. Lockhart
  • Understanding
  • Humans
  • Swear

• Stanford's law school application wasn't the standard combination of college transcript, LSAT score, and essays. It required a personal sign-off from the dean of your college: You had to submit a form, completed by the dean, attesting that you weren't a loser.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • School
  • Law
  • College

• I got no support from USA Wrestling. I was competing against professional Russians that do nothing but wrestle for a living, and I was forced to take a job working for this lowlife loser, John du Pont, who I didn't want in my life. I just wanted the money.

  

  Mark Schultz
  • Life
  • Money
  • Job

• I have a horror of sunsets; they're so romantic, so operatic.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Romantic
  • Horror
  • Sunset