Marcel Proust Quotes
An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.Marcel Proust
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I worked with James Orange and Hosea Williams as a teenager, and he's portrayed in the movie by Wendell Pierce. So, for me to be able to come in, 20 years after working with them as a teenager, and to portray Reverend James Orange in 'Selma' is mind-blowing.
Omar Dorsey -
Just being famous feels cheap to me.
Olivier Martinez -
My childhood dream was to study mechanical engineering. After reading 'The Mysterious Island' - which I read 25 times as a boy - I thought that was the best thing a person could do. The engineer in the book knows mechanics and physics, and he creates a whole way of life on the island out of nothing. I wanted to be like that.
Dan Shechtman -
I think clearly the United States, as well as other western nations, should stand by their commitments to human rights and democracy and should try to influence other countries to move in that direction.
Samuel P. Huntington -
To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering.
Ingrid Newkirk -
Every immortal except Jack Nicklaus has hit a wall and stopped making putts he had to make in order to win. Jack did it for 20 years.
Dan Jenkins
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Playing Shakespeare requires technique. You don't play a Bach toccata by getting in the mood.
Kevin Kline -
Ah! happy day they whose hearts can break And peace of pardon win! How else may man make straight his plan And cleanse his soul from Sin? How else but through a broken heart May Lord Christ enter in?
Oscar Wilde -
Prayer is life passionately wanting, wishing, desiring God's triumph.
G. Campbell Morgan -
God's viewpoint is sometimes different from ours - so different that we could not even guess at it unless He had given us a Book which tells us such things....In the Bible I learn that God values us not for our strenght or our brains but simply because He has made us.
Corrie Ten Boom -
Teaching means to show a person that something is possible.
Fritz Perls -
Radical innovation is difficult to fund. It seems scary. And the really radical things seem even more scary.
Nolan Bushnell
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I believe that one of the most dignified ways we are capable of, to assert and then reassert our dignity in the face of poverty and war's fears and pains, is to nourish ourselves with all possible skill, delicacy, and ever-increasing enjoyment.
M. F. K. Fisher -
n artistic atmosphere does not create artists a literary atmosphere does not create literators; poets and painters spring up where there was never a verse made or a picture seen. This suggests that God is no more idle now than He was at the beginning, but that He is still and forever shaping the human chaos into the instruments and means of beauty.
William Dean Howells -
When people tell me I am better than I think I am I feel good about myself.
Brian Elwin Haner Jr. Avenged Sevenfold -
I don't know, and I would rather not guess.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
The little individualist, recognizing his individual impotence, realizing that he did not possess within himself even the basis of a moral judgement against his big brother, began to change his point of view. He no longer hoped to right all things by his individual efforts. He turned to the law, to the government, to the state.
Walter Weyl -
In New York, I get a tremendous amount of ideas by looking at the paintings and the sculptures, adapting artistic endeavors to crafts. There is a lot of inspiration around us that we can see every day and turn into projects.
Martha Stewart
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The structure of the company is constantly changing. The composition of the necessary working groups is constantly changing. We have many divisions that are based on the project principle, which means that they are put together for each project.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky -
A book is a machine to think with.
I. A. Richards -
An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
Marcel Proust