Marcel Proust Quotes

Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth.

Marcel Proust

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• As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Important
  • American
  • Couple

• It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Experience
  • Remember
  • Nature

• I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.

  

  Imelda May
  • Live
  • Art
  • College

• I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Music
  • Career
  • Interested

• At Nike, designers both created and communicated the brand, transforming a company that made shoes into a purveyor of athletic heroism.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Shoes
  • Company
  • Brand

• This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.

  

  Fat Joe
  • World
  • Kids
  • Me

• When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Thinking
  • Pretty
  • Beginning

• I contend, most seriously, that there is a real need for a good, thick, complete-as-possible dictionary of 'What People Used to Call Things.'

  

  Gary Jennings
  • People
  • Good
  • Real

• People don't listen to one radio station. On iTunes you can mix different worlds and bring country and pop and folk and live music together with a mass audience. I could have sung 'Easy' in a country way but I just sang it how I sing. I think it's a really nice blend.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• There is a figure that is adored, but I'd question very strongly that it's me.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Question
  • Figure
  • Strongly

• I think in spring, we don't want to wear makeup, we don't want to wear a ton of clothes, we just want everything to be easier.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Think
  • Spring
  • Makeup

• The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Up

• I was in Africa Before the building of Rome. I came here To the remnant of Troy.

  

  Taliesin

• The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Science
  • Poetry

• The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Cold
  • Judge

• It is sometimes difficult to avoid the impression that there is a sort of foreknowledge of the coming series of events.

  

  Carl Jung

• No chord in populism reverberates more strongly than the notion that the robust common sense of an unstained outsider is the best medicine for an ailing polity. Caligula doubtless got big cheers from the plebs when he installed his horse as proconsul.

  

  Alexander Cockburn
  • Horse

• Liza Minelli said she can't sing well enough those 'special songs' of her late mother, Judy Garland, so she doesn't sing them at all. The award-winning entertainer said she'd 'rather present a first-rate version of myself than a second-rate version of Mama.'

  

  Liza Minnelli
  • She
  • Mother
  • Present

• That's my house and that's my car. That's my dog in my backyard. There's the window to the room. Where she lays her pretty headI planted that tree out by the fence. Not long after we moved in. That's my kids and that's my wife. Who's that man, runnin' my life?

  

  Toby Keith
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Pretty

• Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That's right. Others come in to govern for them

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • People

• We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.

  

  Jean de La Fontaine
  • Happy
  • Fear
  • Die

• The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Character
  • Sympathize
  • Drug Dealers

• Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Truth
  • Force
  • Error