Marcel Proust Quotes

Adultery breathes new life into marriages which have been left for dead.

Marcel Proust

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• Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for Japan's existence as a country.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Country
  • Energy

• This is a negotiation. Our aim was to listen.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Aim
  • Negotiation

• My parents do a lot of things behind the scenes that go unnoticed.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Parents
  • Things
  • Scenes

• I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Thinking
  • Help
  • Humanity

• I've always maintained that I don't think comedy should be reviewed. I think it's un-reviewable, because it is so subjective.

  

  William Emerson Arnett
  • Thinking
  • Comedy
  • Should

• I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Heart
  • Suffer
  • Brains

• I think great music sells records, and I also think, do you want to be a reality star, or someone that actually has credibility? Because you can't have both.

  

  Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion
  • Because
  • Actually
  • Both

• I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.

  

  Studs Terkel
  • People
  • Book
  • Facts

• There are days when I don't feel motivated and I don't want to get up to go to practice. I'm a very goal-oriented person, so I set short-term goals and try to reach those goals. And when I have those days, I think about those goals, and it gets me motivated.

  

  Dara Torres
  • Thinking
  • Practice
  • Goal

• Appreciation of works of art requires organized effort and systematic study. Art appreciation can no more be absorbed by aimless wandering in galleries than can surgery be learned by casual visits to a hospital.

  

  Albert C. Barnes
  • Art
  • Study
  • Appreciation

• You're only as tall as your heart will let you be and you're only as small as the world will make you seem.

  

  Christofer Drew
  • World
  • Heart
  • Small

• Most of the time, the creative part is like playing in a sandbox. I can sit here and work for 12 hours and not get tired of it.

  

  Britta Phillips
  • Work
  • Hours
  • Sandbox

• - What is a Socialist? - That's when all are equal and all have property in common, there are no marriages, and everyone has any religion and laws he likes best. You are not old enough to understand that yet.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Religion
  • Property
  • Socialist

• Everything has added up to a load that I'm getting tired of carrying. It's gotten so complicated. It's the three failed marriages, and having kids that grew up without me, and it's the personal criticism, of being Mr. Nice Guy, or of divorcing my wife by fax, all that stuff, the journalism, some of which I find insulting.

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • Failed
  • Marriages
  • Personal Criticism

• I don't think marriages break up because of what you do to each other. They break up because of what you must become in order to stay in them.

  

  Carol Grace
  • Order
  • Become
  • Stay

• People say, 'I'm only suing for the principle of the thing,' and I reply that I can't give you principle - only money.

  

  Joseph Wapner
  • People
  • Money
  • Only

• Adultery breathes new life into marriages which have been left for dead.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Marriages
  • New Life
  • Breathes