Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes

If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: January 28, 1873 - August 3, 1954

Topics

WithoutManyToo

In any country, governance issues are there. Challenges are there, pressures are there. When multi-party coalitions take decisions, sometimes delays will be there. But that is what democracy is: it is beauty or it's challenge.

Anand Sharma

BeautyChallengeChallengesDemocracy

In a way, yes, because I was starting something fresh, and it was something totally independent.

Skitch Henderson

IndependentWayStartingYesFresh

What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Tony Robbins

ImpossibleTruePossibleMoreCannot

My particular pain is that the world of Jewishness that I identify with - the extremely assimilated, educated European and Russian Jews in the 19th and 20th centuries - is lost, and is not mourned enough.

Tom Reiss

PainWorldEnoughLostEducated

One of the great joys of launching your idea on the web is that it's a meritocracy. The good stuff will rise to the top and find an audience, and you don't have to impress one idiosyncratic commissioning editor.

Rob Manuel

GoodGreatYouFindRiseImpress

So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

TodayHopeTomorrowWriting

All we hear about Africa in the West is Darfur, Zimbabwe, Congo, Somalia, as if that is all there is.

Mo Ibrahim

AfricaWestZimbabweHearCongo

You have to pay attention to the work on the page and make it as good as possible because it could be your last.

Milo Ventimiglia

WorkGoodAttentionYouPossible

'Game of Thrones' has never much concerned itself with shining a torch on the powerless. Their hunger and suffering in a land ravaged by war is of little concern to the story's most powerful characters, whose antics bring so much pain to the people.

Julia Gillard

PainWarPeopleSufferingGameLand

I think I could have worked for the Clinton administration.

Judd Gregg

ThinkAdministrationI ThinkCould

People are already self-selected by the time they've decided to become scientists.

Jonathan Miller

TimePeopleBecomeDecided

With the rise of software patents, engineers coding new stuff - whether within a large software company or as kids writing smartphone apps - are exposed to a claim that somewhere a prior patent is being infringed.

Jonathan Zittrain

WritingRiseEngineersNewSoftware

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