Quotes of: Proust Keyword

I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.

Maria Mitchell

I'm sure Obama is an atheist; I'm sure Kennedy was an atheist, but I doubt if Pope Frank is.

Richard Dawkins

I also got a chance to go to the American Museum in New York, which helped my interest.

Robert T. Bakker

Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs.

Richard Dawkins

It is very clear that voice communications is moving on to the Internet. In the end, the price that anyone can provide for voice transmission on the Net will trend toward zero.

Meg Whitman

I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.

Angus Wilson

'Youth is the time for loving, so poets always say.

No Laughing Matter

I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.

Octavia E. Butler

The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s.

Robert Darnton

My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.

Jane Birkin

Frank: Have I mentioned that I am the preeminent Proust scholar in the US?

Little Miss Sunshine

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Denis Waitley

O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!

Walter Scott

A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established.

John Cotton Dana

That's it then. This is how it ends. I haven't even read Proust.

Rex Libris Volume Two: Book Of Monsters

Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.

Proust

Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience.

The Recognitions

Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.

Lawrence Clark Powell

Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived.

Margaret A. Edwards

The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun.

Richard Dawkins

I think fashion is actually very good training for being in the tech world, because it's all about moving on to the next thing, looking for the next thing, not getting stuck in the past.

Natalie Massenet