Marcel Proust Quotes

There are optical illusions in time as well as space.

Marcel Proust

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• I know that there are going to be people that don't like my music, but I think in the industry itself it is always that, 'Oh. you're from the 'X Factor.' There have been certain radio stations that will not play your song because you are from the 'X Factor,' yet they'll play another song from an artist from another TV show.

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Music
  • Song

• I believed I was invincible.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Believed
  • Invincible

• I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Work
  • America
  • Team

• The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Winning
  • Beauty
  • Greatest

• I've committed to surfing the rest of my life.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Life
  • Rest
  • My Life

• I am very excited to be able to work more with young designers and support them.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Work
  • Support
  • Excited

• I am definitely a person of color.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Person
  • Color

• I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • People
  • Me
  • Walking

• Abraham Lincoln was killed by the forces of white supremacy.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • White
  • Lincoln
  • Supremacy

• I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Important
  • Think
  • Symbolism

• If a State has reliable scientific information that demonstrates that a warning is needed for a particular food, then in the interest of public health, it should share that information with the FDA and petition for a new national standard.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • Food
  • Health
  • Information

• India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Great
  • Understand
  • India

• My first job in Brazil was actually to develop a way to improve the readability of billboards, and based on speed, angle of approach and actually blocks of text. It was very - actually, it was a very good study, and got me a job in an ad agency. And they also decided that I had to - to give me a very ugly Plexiglas trophy for it.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • Good
  • Job
  • Study

• I feel no compulsion to be a pundit. As a matter of fact, I really don't have that much to say about most things. Working with hard news satisfies me completely.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Me
  • Working
  • News

• Sometimes it's not even a role that's specifically written for a woman. It could be a role written for a white man or Asian man, or Latino. If it's something that I feel I could do well, I go after it. Especially if it's nothing that has to be gender or race specific, I'm all over it.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Gender

• A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Children
  • School
  • Parents

• I love comedy, but I was just obsessed with 'SNL' growing up.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Growing
  • Comedy
  • Obsessed

• I suppose I'd always been attracted to commitment-phobes because some part of me felt unlovable. It was a lot easier to fall for a guy who I knew, on some level, wouldn't fall in love with me. There was nothing to risk. The real risk would be to finally be vulnerable to love.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • Guy
  • Risk
  • Commitment

• This marriage is no one's business but our own.

  

  Bobby Darin
  • Business
  • Marriage

• When I played a club in Salt Lake City, I complained to the crowd about the low turnout. It's always good to berate the people who paid to see you because you're upset about the people who didn't show up. It's called misplaced anger, and without it, I wouldn't have an act.

  

  Andy Kindler
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I was definitely considered different growing up. I learned that being me was all right because my family celebrated those differences.

  

  Prabal Gurung
  • Up
  • Different
  • Family

• The strike of the miners in Arizona was one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the American labor movement. Its peaceful character, its successful outcome, were due to that most remarkable character, Governor Hunt.

  

  Mary Harris Jones
  • Character
  • American
  • History

• To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.

  

  Martha Graham
  • Beautiful
  • Space

• There are optical illusions in time as well as space.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Space
  • Illusion
  • In Time