Marcel Proust Quotes

When one becomes for an instant one's former self, that is to say different from what one has been for some time past, one's sensibility, being no longer dulled by habit, receives from the slightest stimulus vivid impressions which make everything that has preceded them fade into insignificance, impressions to which, because of their intensity, we attach ourselves with the momentary enthusiasm of a drunkard.

Marcel Proust

• Self
• Enthusiasm
• Sensibility
• Impressions

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• The average Indian doesn't care about Hollywood movies because they have far too many movies of their own to watch, to miss, and I hope a story like 'Million Dollar Arm,' that is actually about India and deals with these two Indian kids, resonates over there and makes people want to go and see the movie.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • Kids
  • Movie

• I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Family
  • Business
  • Funny

• In closing, let me just thank God, on the floor of the House, for not turning away from us even though we seem to be turning away from Him.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • God
  • House
  • Me

• I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Music
  • Love
  • Week

• I love the feeling that you get when you can really laugh with a man and be natural and not always think that there's a sexual element going on. For me, flirting with a man means making fun of myself and trying to open myself and be very unpretentious.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Man
  • Feeling
  • Natural

• Harvard was the most intimidating experience. I felt so out of my league there.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Experience
  • Out
  • Harvard

• I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that's what I love.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Art
  • House
  • Small

• Faith is never identical with piety.

  

  Karl Barth
  • Faith
  • Never
  • Piety

• I love inventing interesting people and then pushing them to their absolute limits - and usually those absolute limits involve homicidal faeries, werewolves, or some other paranormal menace.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • People
  • Limits
  • Inventing

• I love meeting new people, different cultures. I love that.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • People
  • Different
  • Love

• There are so many cute vintage dresses made out of synthetics from the '60s and '70s - but they're so itchy and hot. It's not worth it!

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Cute
  • Worth
  • Vintage

• I was never the girl that grew up saying I want to get married. I actually told my parents to not expect me to get married.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Girl

• You know, people really don't understand what actors do.

  

  Sally Field
  • People
  • Know
  • Understand

• Socially, the Cuban revolution created an education system and health service that remain the envy of much of the neo-liberal world.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • World
  • Education
  • Health

• We've all got royal blood in our veins, you know. It's the best place for it in my view. We've all got a little bit of royal blood in our veins, we're all in line for the succession, and if nineteen million, four hundred thousand, two hundred and eight people die, I'll be king tomorrow. It's not very likely but its a nice thought and helps keep you going.

  

  Peter Cook
  • People
  • Die
  • Nice

• He broke the kiss and leaned against her, breathing hard. "Good morning to you, too. Man, I just can't stay mad when you do that.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Good
  • Morning
  • Mad

• ...you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Time
  • World
  • Struggle

• I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a lion merely turning its head. But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Wish
  • Water
  • Picture

• The possession of a perfect knowledge of your business is an absolute necessity in order to insure success.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Business
  • Success
  • Knowledge

• Maybe the body learns from dreams. Maybe the muscles, the neutrons, revitalize.

  

  Michael Zaslow
  • Dream
  • Body
  • Muscles

• I'm afraid to fail again.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Afraid
  • Fail
  • Again

• The best time of my life has been the three instances where I have been there for the birth of my children. That is, nothing else has ever come close.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Life
  • Time
  • Children

• Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Moments
  • Sleep
  • Mood

• When one becomes for an instant one's former self, that is to say different from what one has been for some time past, one's sensibility, being no longer dulled by habit, receives from the slightest stimulus vivid impressions which make everything that has preceded them fade into insignificance, impressions to which, because of their intensity, we attach ourselves with the momentary enthusiasm of a drunkard.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Self
  • Enthusiasm
  • Sensibility