Marguerite Yourcenar Quotes

La lettre écrite m'a enseigné à écouter la voix humaine, tout comme les grandes attitudes immobiles des statues m'ont appris à apprécier les gestes.

Marguerite Yourcenar

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• I never eat where the hotel recommends. I do my own research and then try the most highly rated options.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Never
  • Try
  • Research

• His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.

  

  Oliver Hudson
  • Love
  • Fear
  • Failure

• I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Social
  • Scientist
  • Novelist

• Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.

  

  Saint Basil
  • God
  • Parents
  • Reason

• In 1775, no fewer than nine colonies had established churches, ranging from Congregational establishments in New Hampshire, Connecticut and Massachusetts to Episcopal churches in the southern states from Maryland on down.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • New
  • Down
  • Colonies

• My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Morning
  • Road
  • Son

• I have always been interested in design, but in the beginning I didn't set out to make jewelry specifically.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Beginning
  • Design
  • Jewelry

• There doesn't seem to be a lot of middle ground with me.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Me
  • Ground
  • Seem

• A distinction between renewable and not renewable energy is academic.

  

  Carlo Rubbia
  • Energy
  • Renewable Energy

• First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • People
  • Music
  • Black

• Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Death
  • Sound
  • Picnic

• Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Important
  • Family
  • Always

• I didn't really know you could make a living in songwriting. I was just very fortunate to have the opportunity to play a few songs for a guy there named Jimmy Ritchey. Through that meeting, I met another couple guys and ended up getting a publishing deal in Nashville.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Opportunity

• In the light of the Divine Goodness, it seems to me, though others may think differently, that ingratitude is the most abominable of sins and that it should be detested in the sight of our Creator and Lord by all of His creatures who are capable of enjoying His divine and everlasting glory.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Lord
  • Divine
  • Goodness

• I think it's important to have your own individual style and sense of self. It's kind of what I do.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Important
  • Style
  • Self

• Sometimes, violent details have been eliminated from fairy tales simply because they were deemed too graphic. So one does not, at the end of Disney's version of 'Cinderella,' see the stepsisters' eyes get pecked and pecked by doves, because Disney wanted to market the story for wholesome family viewing.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Family
  • Eyes
  • End

• Most writers enjoy two periods of happiness – when a glorious idea comes to mind and, secondly, when a last page has been written and you haven’t had time to know how much better it ought to be.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Time
  • Mind

• A dialogue of respect is the rock-bed of all societies. Attacking and excluding others, insulting other peoples and their faith and convictions - this is no way forward. The future lies in unity and respect, not division and stereotypes.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Future
  • Faith
  • Respect

• I have never been brought up a Catholic - I mean, a Roman Catholic - we're all Catholics, aren't we? We're Protestant Catholics, whether we're from Methodist or Baptist or what.

  

  Aimee Semple McPherson
  • Catholic
  • Brought

• The world does not end tonight And the fruit that we will pick tomorrow Await us, weighing the unstripped bough.

  

  Charles Tomlinson
  • World
  • Tomorrow
  • Fruit

• I have always studied my parts with the orchestral score and not with the piano reduction.

  

  Placido Domingo

• We were given drinks, and drank them, and talked while we drank them. But talked, here, is a euphemism: we had that conversation about how you make a Martini. The people in Hell, Dr. Rosenbaum had told me once, say nothing but What? Americans in Hell tell each other how to make Martinis.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • People

• I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.

  

  James Salter
  • Feeling

• La lettre écrite m'a enseigné à écouter la voix humaine, tout comme les grandes attitudes immobiles des statues m'ont appris à apprécier les gestes.

  

  Marguerite Yourcenar