Marcel Proust Quotes

But when one believes in the reality of things, making them visible by artificial means is not quite the same as feeling that they are close at hand.

Marcel Proust

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• I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Home
  • Travel
  • Computers

• I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • God
  • Bad
  • Earth

• People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.

  

  Omar Epps
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• There's a lot of comedy in 'The Guest,' so it was a bit more fun in a sense - it wasn't so heavy like 'It Follows.'

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Fun
  • Comedy
  • Like

• I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.

  

  Lainie Kazan
  • Music
  • Singing
  • Write

• It's human nature to not say everything that's on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We're afraid of being embarrassed.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Time
  • Mind

• Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Men
  • Women
  • Myself

• I certainly used to wish that I was skinny, lighter-skinned, with long, pretty hair. But only because I used to get made fun of for being the absolute opposite. I didn't see all of that stuff as the American Dream. I just wanted to look normal. Now that I'm older, I really do feel like I am a beautiful girl.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Long
  • American
  • Fun

• Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Circle
  • Round
  • Praised

• Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that happen in my life.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Superman

• Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.

  

  Irving Fisher
  • High
  • Like
  • Looks

• I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • Playing
  • Talking
  • Behavior

• I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to support them.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Time
  • Children
  • Support

• Let me tell you, 'The Reader' was not glamorous for me in terms of the body-hair maintenance.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Body
  • Reader
  • Terms

• I spend most of my time at concerts hoping for that one second that the artist looks at me, I look at the artist, and that's when I get to say, 'Thank you.'

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Time
  • Artist
  • Thank You

• I'm a quasi-only child. With my brother and sister, I've more of a tendency to be semi-maternal. So, yes, I spent a lot of time talking to myself - I had this big dressing-up box and would just dress up as lots of characters and talk back to myself... Verging on schizophrenia, I suppose, if you analyse it carefully.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Up
  • Time
  • Brother

• In lean times, you get plenty of sleep, and you're not flying around everywhere.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • You
  • Sleep
  • Flying

• I have no doubts that it will be a major sport-in the United States. I'm probably not going to live to see that day because Americans are a little afraid of getting interested in something at which they're not very good.

  

  Lamar Hunt
  • Good
  • Live
  • Day

• It is a truth universally acknowledged on Wall Street that original research is on life support. Serious research can be bad for business, as well as expensive.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Life
  • Business
  • Truth

• My mother died in 2005. She was 61 years old.

  

  Lisa Jewell
  • She
  • Mother

• Let mortal man keep to his own Mortality, and not expect too much.

  

  Euripides
  • Expect
  • Too Much
  • Mortal Men

• I hate sport. I like girlie things.

  

  Louise Nurding
  • Hate

• This liberating discovery enables me to proceed without any fear that I might inadvertently influence you to abandon promising careers in business, law or politics for the giddy delights of becoming a gay wizard.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Business
  • Fear
  • Law

• But when one believes in the reality of things, making them visible by artificial means is not quite the same as feeling that they are close at hand.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Reality
  • Feeling
  • Believes