Marcel Proust Quotes
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
Marcel Proust
Quotes to Explore
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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
Salman Rushdie
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
Walter Savage Landor
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
Olympia Dukakis
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight, if it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one's fellow travelers.
Abraham Verghese
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You can't possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.
Barry Manilow
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
Jackie Kennedy
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However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also critically examine where we are at this historical moment, recognize the many challenges ahead and reaffirm our commitment to making Brown v. Board a reality.
Ed Markey
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Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality.
Bill Vaughan
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I'm a firm believer that if you put together a good product that is just good policy, that is embraced by both sides so that it is seen as politically advantageous to the Republicans or Democrats, that even in this very polarized partisan world that you can advance legislation. I have to believe that, or I wouldn't want to get up every morning.
Lisa Murkowski
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A right judgment draws us a profit from all things we see .
William Shakespeare
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
Marcel Proust