Marcel Proust Quotes
After a certain age, the more one becomes oneself, the more obvious one's family traits become.
Quotes to Explore
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.
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My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.
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The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
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We are all born mad. Some remain so.
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Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.
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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910.
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If you do nothing long enough, something's bound to happen.
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All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
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So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.
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I love to be in front of big galleries.
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The waste basket is the writer's best friend.
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Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
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What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You can't really run a two-hour opera round some muted murmuring.
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Civilization and profit go hand in hand.
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If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.
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Good walkers can go anywhere in these hospitable mountains without artificial ways.
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The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century - it was actually mummified, skin and all - but in a fit of space-saving zeal, they actually cut off the head and they cut off the feet and they burned the rest in a bonfire.
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I spend around two and half hours on the track every day running and another 2 hours in the weight room lifting weights with my strength coach.
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When you're walking down the street, or you're at a restaurant, someone catches your eye because they have their own look. It goes way beyond what they're wearing - into their mannerisms, the way they smile, or just the way they hold themselves.
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After a certain age, the more one becomes oneself, the more obvious one's family traits become.
