Marcel Proust Quotes

Under each station of the real, another glimmers.

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• When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Confidence
  • Goals

• To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • True
  • Die

• I never wore a single fedora filming 'L.A. Noire.' It took about an hour and a half to do the hair - it was a very precise process.

  

  Aaron Staton
  • Single
  • Hair
  • Never

• There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Interesting
  • Present
  • Which

• I might be afraid of ghosts and like dragons and those things, but I'm not afraid of the Taliban.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Afraid
  • Dragons
  • Ghosts

• We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Poetry
  • Guidance
  • Professor

• Truth comes to us mediated by human love.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Human

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.

  

  Narada Michael Walden
  • Like
  • Voice
  • Sound

• The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Men
  • Women
  • Short

• Like the Britain of Beaverbrook and Kipling, Japan in the early twentieth century was a jingoistic nation, subduing weaker countries with the help of populist politicians and sensationalist journalism.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Help
  • Like
  • Journalism

• I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Future
  • Language
  • Moon

• Showbiz can be cruel.

  

  Nadia Bjorlin
  • Cruel
  • Showbiz

• It's possible to train great people, but a person with great training who doesn't have certain characteristics is only going to go so far.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • Great
  • Training

• I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see it happen, there's always the town gossip - 'Oh did you hear about so and so, or did you hear what went on in this household?' So I learned at a very young age just to keep my mouth shut.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Up
  • Age
  • Small

• When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.'

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• When you're from another country, you want to spend time with your family. All your family can't come here. All your friends can't come here. You spend so much time here, you want to go there, too.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Time
  • Country
  • Family

• Obviously I'm fast, and I'm going to have to utilize that speed, but I'm also going to have to be smart. I'm also strong, and I have a punch, so I'm going to have to use all my qualities to be able to fight against Angulo, and I just feel whoever's the best prepared that night is going to win.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Night
  • Strong
  • Best

• I was acting when I was playing baseball.

  

  Bob Uecker
  • Baseball

• At a school in Massachusetts where I once worked, we managed early on through consensus. Which sounds wonderful, but it was just a very, very difficult way to sort of manage anything, because convincing everybody to do one particular thing, especially if it was hard, was almost impossible.

  

  Geoffrey Canada
  • School

• I probably use email the most. I dunno if that counts as an app. I try to stay off my electronics as much as possible. Real life is happening all around you; you're better off just being a part of it.

  

  Nathan Parsons
  • Life
  • Real
  • Better

• I went to these mixers, you know, where you're supposed to meet people. And sure enough, some guy asked me for my phone number. but at the end of the evening he gave it back.

  

  Marcia Wallace
  • People
  • Guy

• You do not have to imagine things; reality gives you all you need.

  

  Andre Kertesz
  • Reality
  • Giving
  • Needs

• Under each station of the real, another glimmers.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Real
  • Station
  • Glimmers