#Men Quotes #Perfection Quotes #Chimera Quotes
“You're asking the wrong girl about fame. I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else.”
“It's nice to be in a situation where the two books that I write for a sort of regular monthly income are also works that I enjoy immensely, rather than them being some kind of bread and butter, do it because you have to do it.”
“People are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don't know what kind of terrible, terrible, oh such terrible cage.”
“They belonged to that vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by the surrounding puppets.”
“Every work of art (unless it is a psuedo-intellectualist work, a work already comprised in some ideology that it merely illustrates, as with Brecht ) is outside ideology, is not reducible to ideology. Ideology circumscribes without penetrating it. The absence of ideology in a work does not mean an absence of ideas; on the contrary it fertilizes them.”
“Don't only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets.”
“I don't think I've changed very much. I think I'm the same kid that I was when I got here. When I came here all I wanted to do was win games. I wanted to play baseball for LSU and be the ultimate team player. That's all I want to do. If we don't end up being the last team to win the game at the end of the year then I won't be happy. That's all I'm worried about this year.”
“I am the executioner. When the crime is committed and the Lord God does not take vengeance nor does the exalted State move to declare and then to punish, I say when these bitter events happen, then comes the time for the executioner to declare himself or herself as the case may be. I have waited long enough. So the time has come, and I declare myself the executioner. The three criminals are hereby sentenced to death. By fire. By earth. By water.”
Edmund Burke Statesman
Isaiah Berlin Philosopher
Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Journalist
Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse
Joseph de Maistre Philosopher
Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand
Pope Gregory XVI
Suzanne Curchod Writer
Charles Forbes Rene de Montalembert
