Charles de Montesquieu Quotes

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.

Charles de Montesquieu

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• I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Work
  • Long
  • Nature

• If I'm among my boys or people I've grown up with, I can be immature.

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • People
  • Up
  • I Can

• A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not just by state but by county, sometimes even by municipality.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Sometimes
  • Rules
  • Mortgage

• It was never about winning medals or being famous.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Never
  • Winning
  • Famous

• Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Doing
  • Because
  • Hospitality

• My career is an open book, but my life is not.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Life
  • Book
  • Career

• If you live in the overlapping world of politics and media, as I am learning, anything less than full transparency can potentially do you in.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • World
  • Live
  • Learning

• I am careful about fiction. A novel is not a tract or an essay. If I want to write about land reforms, or Hindu-Muslim relations, or position of women, I can do it as it affects my characters as in 'A Suitable Boy.' I could only write about issues specifically through essays. But I'll do that only if I have something worthwhile to say.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Fiction
  • Novel
  • Careful

• Trust me: I've been travelling, making movies, and spending the remainder of my time at home.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Time
  • Home
  • Trust

• My wife will automatically quote and compare the price of diesel at every petrol station we drive by, like she's got oil-based Tourette's.

  

  Ian Watson
  • She
  • Wife
  • Drive

• The things that people won't totally accept come in all shapes and sizes and forms, and I can relate to that in my own youth.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Youth
  • Shapes

• I've had a lot of mother figures. But by the time my mom came into my life, it wasn't a 'mommy' thing. It's more of an adult relationship.

  

  Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
  • Life
  • Time
  • Mother

• I have never been assigned a game, I have never made a game I didn't want to make. I've never done anything just to make somebody some money.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Money
  • Done
  • Game

• I think that many black people thought this would be a wonderful and extraordinary thing, for a black family to occupy the White House. Not only black people; a lot of white people thought that, too, but particularly black people.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • People
  • Family
  • House

• There's something wholesome about the theatre.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Theatre
  • Something
  • About

• With Loopt Star, consumers get to tap interactive rewards wherever they may be.

  

  Sam Altman
  • May
  • Star
  • Rewards

• A sociable smile is nothing but teeth.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Smile

• It matters not its history; love has wingsLike lightning , swift and fatal, and it springsLike a wild flower where it is least expected,Existing whether cherish'd or rejected;

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • History
  • Flower

• The universe doesn't conspire against you, but it doesn't go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Universe
  • Conditions
  • Pins

• Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Path
  • Leave
  • Lead

• I'm not a director to make an action or horror film. That's not for me.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • Action

• Science fiction properly conceived, like all serious fiction, however funny, is a way of trying to describe what is in fact going on, what people actually do and feel, how people relate to everything else in this vast sack, this belly of the universe, this womb of things to be and tomb of things that were, this unending story.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • People
  • Trying
  • Science

• When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.

  

  C. S. Lewis

• To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.

  

  Charles de Montesquieu