Marcel Proust Quotes

One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.

Marcel Proust

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• All training is negotiation, whether you're training dogs or spouses.

  

  Ian Dunbar
  • You
  • Training
  • Negotiation

• The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Dog
  • Win
  • Fight

• Because I've done so many different roles, I don't want to repeat myself. It's getting harder and harder to find something interesting. You never know - I might never make a film again.

  

  Maggie Cheung
  • Different
  • Done
  • Want

• I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Me
  • Baseball
  • Lucky

• I love the idea that I planned my career. I did not. It started out by getting invitations from artists that I really love and respect, to share a stage... I've been very lucky in that I haven't had to create a five-year plan. It's evolved.

  

  M. Ward
  • Love
  • Career
  • Respect

• I've never played a Dane in a movie. I've had offers to be in Danish movies, including for some good directors, but I either had a job at the time or, when I was available, the movie just didn't happen. Hopefully someday I'll do one.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Time
  • Good
  • Job

• The truth is I love musical theater and always have.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Truth
  • Always
  • Theater

• The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem, it is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Kids
  • Problem
  • Perception

• I have to watch the news or my day is not complete.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Day
  • News
  • Watch

• I have been married for 58 years to the same woman. Our secret? Separate bathrooms.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Woman
  • Same
  • Married

• The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or not, but simply saying the first thing that comes to mind from being learnt by rote by frequent repetition - cannot be called prayer: God grant that no Christian may address Him in this manner.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Mind
  • May

• For 'Iron Man' I had to improv with Robert Downey Jr., which is like going up against LeBron in basketball. At one point he stopped and said, 'Can we give a round of applause to Olivia, because she's rocking it right now.'

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Up
  • She
  • Man

• The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Live
  • Forever
  • Jazz

• My wife tells me I am a male chauvinist pig and I have to sort of admit it. In my office and in my home, I'm not very democratic. I think of myself as a benevolent dictator.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Home
  • Myself
  • Wife

• I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Feeling
  • Storm
  • Grit

• It's important to know what motivates you, not what motivates somebody else.

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Important
  • You
  • Know

• I've got a one-dimensional mind.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Mind

• I loved it. We would rehearse in this dark theatre, unaware of the sunny day outside, and be immersed in the magic of creating something from our imaginations.

  

  Elaine Paige
  • Dark
  • Magic
  • Theatre

• As we all know, there is inner beauty and outer beauty. If we examine inner beauty, to me there is nothing more beautiful than inner peace, in a man or a woman.

  

  Alice Greczyn
  • Beautiful
  • Peace

• Kristina, my wife, and I thought about this one day when the kids were, of course, watching television. And we took a big blanket and put it in the backyard and said, 'Let's go out on our back and look at the sky and call it sky television.' We saw all kinds of things.

  

  Clyde Edgerton
  • Kids
  • Wife
  • Sky

• My friends are still the guys I met 40 or 50 years ago.

  

  Dennis Farina
  • Friends

• First, philosophy concerns itself with all kinds of issues that don't get much airtime in day-to-day life. What's the nature of reality? Can we ever truly know anything, and if so, how? What does it mean to be a moral agent? And while we're at it, is there any such thing as agency anyway?

  

  Kathryn Schulz
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Reality

• One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Opportunity
  • Thinks
  • Quoting