Marcel Proust Quotes
There are people whose faces assume an unaccustomed beauty and majesty the moment they cease to look out of their eyes.Marcel Proust
Quotes to Explore
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The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.
Gaby Hoffmann -
I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
Taylor Caldwell -
I wouldn't wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don't think it's necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots.
Taylor Swift -
There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
P. D. James -
No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.
Zainab Salbi -
I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
Vincent Cassel
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As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip hop.
Fat Joe -
For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere - a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK.
Zaha Hadid -
Whatever the reason is, I hope we can finish talking about the Olympics. It's gone, it's behind us. The schedule wasn't proper for players who went there and there is some fatigue in a lot guys' play right now.
Saku Koivu -
Bahrain lies at the epicenter of Gulf security and any violent upheaval in Bahrain would have enormous geopolitical consequences. Global economic stability depends on the uninterrupted export of crude oil from the Gulf to markets around the world - a job that historically has been assigned to the U.S. Fifth Fleet.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa -
It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out.
Walter Becker China Crisis -
People who work in financial services don't have one shred of concern about the well-being of the people they serve. They're only interested in themselves.
Barry Schwartz
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Too often we're happy to receive thanks from the nonprofits we fund, accepting gratitude instead of feedback or performance measurements.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen -
I'd be resentful if shareholders who don't know the business tried to tell me what to do.
S. Truett Cathy -
I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days.
Walter Jon Williams -
Dartmouth is such a special college with its rich history, dedicated student body, and, as I've been learning more recently, colorful customs.
Wendy Kopp -
I was in Africa Before the building of Rome. I came here To the remnant of Troy.
Taliesin -
'I am a necromancer, but not of the common sort, while others of the art raise the dead, I lay them to rest - or try too - and those that will not rest I bind, for I am Abhorsen...' He turned to the baby again and added, almost with a note of surprise, 'Father of Sabriel.'
Garth Nix
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I have to tell you, I'm a great teacher. Ask anybody who worked for me, except some secretaries who weren't very good.
Dawn Steel -
I just wanted to live in books and in movies.
Janet Fitch -
One had better not rush, otherwise dung comes out rather than creative work.
Anton Chekhov -
I consider myself a songwriter before anything else. The fact that I have been able to write both of my records and establishing myself as a songwriter is super-important to me. Some people have that gift, where they can take on anything and make people believe it. I like to do a song from personal experience.
Kate Voegele -
I was purely content to sit in the car and wander around my own mind. Watching the world itself, the people in it, and my whole internal life was more than enough to keep me entertained.
Gabrielle Hamilton -
There are people whose faces assume an unaccustomed beauty and majesty the moment they cease to look out of their eyes.
Marcel Proust