Marcel Proust Quotes
...that melancholy which we feel when we cease to obey orders which, from one day to another, keep the future hidden, and realise that we have at last begun to live in real earnest, as a grown-up person, the life, the only life that any of us has at his disposal.Marcel Proust
Quotes to Explore
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
B. F. Skinner -
I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
Manuel Puig -
We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.
Samantha Power -
What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.
Pat Cadigan -
Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
Florence King -
I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. It's hard enough to be happy without having legislation against you, too.
Rachel Shelley
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Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
Walter Gropius -
As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate.
Candy Crowley -
There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
Edmund Phelps -
If you are in a relationship, it has to be a good one. If it isn't, it's best to just leave it.
Irina Shayk -
I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.
Manuel Puig -
The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.
Hannah Cowley
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When you're doing a startup, life is not all roses and rainbows, like you see on Instagram, and killing it.
Paige Craig -
The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
Abel Ferrara -
I think that most people who hire me to do a remix just want it to work in a nightclub, whereas when I'm writing my own album, I don't have to worry so much about 2 A.M.
Kaskade -
I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random times.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty -
Money is not important to me. What makes me feel successful is making the people I love happy.
Irina Shayk -
The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
Quentin Crisp
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I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.
Katharine Hepburn -
Emotions are enmeshed in the neural networks of reason.
Antonio Damasio -
Sometimes i only sleep to wake up
Saahil Prem -
Besides my love for horses and cars, I am passionate about making the cheapest vaccines in the world. I started making life-saving drugs when I was 22.
Cyrus S. Poonawalla -
My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
Nathan Lane -
...that melancholy which we feel when we cease to obey orders which, from one day to another, keep the future hidden, and realise that we have at last begun to live in real earnest, as a grown-up person, the life, the only life that any of us has at his disposal.
Marcel Proust