Marcel Proust Quotes

If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.

Marcel Proust

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• The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Done
  • True
  • Success

• 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 like to keep Valentine's dinner light so you don't crash after and can keep the fun going through the night!

  

  Camila Alves
  • Fun
  • Night
  • Light

• I put my foot in my mouth sometimes. I'll be the first to admit it.

  

  Wale
  • Sometimes
  • Mouth
  • Admit

• There is a difference between a great producer and somebody who is a big advocate of your music. Just because you're a big advocate for a band doesn't mean you need to be in the studio with them, and at the same time - we don't need to get into this conversation - you can write a hit, but it might not hit.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Time
  • Great
  • Music

• Chrysler builds great cars.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Great
  • Cars
  • Builds

• We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Pain

• The Universal Declaration... as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations...it not only crystallizes the political thought of our times on these matters, but it has also influenced the thinking of legislators all over the world.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Political

• To establish what is true is very difficult. Frequently it is easier to establish what is false. And, passing through the false, it's possible to understand something about truth.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Truth
  • True
  • Difficult

• In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • People
  • America

• I love talking about the challenges [Newark, NJ] has because of the way they are always brilliantly disguised as opportunities.. .the biggest global challenge that there is is a challenge of the spirit, a challenge of our vision, a challenge and a test of our ideals, of who we SAY we are GOING TO BE.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Challenge
  • Vision
  • Spirit

• There's a coffin in the back of the church as the wedding is going on ... Look, I'm a romantic. I like marriage...In the movies.

  

  George Clooney
  • Church
  • Marriage
  • Looks

• I am not a conqueror. I am nothing like you.

  

  Faith Erin Hicks
  • Nothing
  • Conqueror

• I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Think
  • Grace
  • Elegance

• Elegance is like manners. You can’t be polite only on Wednesday or Thursday. If you are elegant, you should be every day of the week. If you are not, then it’s another matter.

  

  Aldo Gucci
  • Week
  • Manners
  • Elegance

• If you think of the way Howlin' Wolf made records, you get the feeling there wasn't a production manager onsite, or a publicist having his say on how he should sing the songs. When you listen to his records, you feel like you're tapping into his voice.

  

  M. Ward
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Feeling

• Bernard Leach was the one who taught us that, because he, too, had started out as a painter and an etcher and had only gotten into ceramics by chance when he was in Japan trying to teach the Japanese how to do etching, which, as he said, they were not ready for yet.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Chance
  • Teach
  • Painter

• If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Sake
  • Remain
  • Elegance