Marcel Proust Quotes

The sight of the little madeleine had recalled nothing to my mind before I tasted it...

Marcel Proust

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• Madeleine

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• I think what Laura Linney was saying about teaching her all the lessons as a child actor, right, that's a whole ball of wax. That's a really mixed bag of stuff. I look at so many people that I knew personally or didn't know personally but who have ended badly, have died young, have been destitute - there are a lot of bad child-actor-gone-wrong stories, a very high percentage, but I think the thing about it is that a lot of those are Hollywood stories, and you don't have that same kind of a thing in the theater.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Children

• I would like to have an ample fund to spread the light of Republicanism, but I am willing to undergo the disadvantage to make certain that in the future we shall reduce the power of money in politics for unworthy purposes.

  

  William Howard Taft
  • Purpose
  • Spread
  • Fund

• He who overcomes others has force; he who overcomes himself is strong.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Strong
  • Force
  • Overcomes

• We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not aid us; we shall die alone.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Society
  • Fools
  • Aid

• All of the Mets road wins against the Dodgers this year occurred at Dodger Stadium.

  

  Ralph Kiner
  • Mets
  • Dodgers
  • Dodger Stadium

• Difficulty is the nurse of greatness.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Greatness
  • Nurse
  • Difficulty

• These days there's so much technology and ways you can learn. There are videos and CD roms.

  

  Mick Taylor The Rolling Stones
  • Technology
  • Learn
  • Ways

• Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Life
  • Reason
  • Disease

• I used to be, like, "Sleep when I die."

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Die
  • Sleep

• If you live with love... You will love living.

  

  Anthony Douglas Williams
  • Live
  • Love
  • For Her

• If my mind be not engaged in worship, it is as though I worshipped not.

  

  Confucius
  • Worship
  • My Mind
  • Engaged

• If we all stand together we're a force that can shake the whole world.

  

  Jeremy McKinnon A Day to Remember
  • World
  • Force

• O Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry each a future Ghost within him; but are, in very deed, Ghosts!

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Heaven
  • Consider
  • Ghost

• We have encouraged all entries to incorporate music. We have 52 entries -- everything from bands to homemade floats, professional floats and walkers.

  

  Margaret Young
  • Music
  • Professional
  • Floats

• In the beginning we were creating our music, ourselves, every night . . . starting with a few outlines, maybe a few words for a song. Sometimes we worked out in Venice, looking at the surf. We were together a lot and it was good times for all of us. Acid, sun, friends, the ocean, and poetry and music.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Music
  • Song
  • Night

• The sight of the little madeleine had recalled nothing to my mind before I tasted it...

  

  Marcel Proust
  • My Mind
  • Tasted
  • Madeleine