Michel de Montaigne Quotes

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

Michel de Montaigne

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: February 28, 1533 - September 13, 1592

Topics

ManSufferingWhoHeFears

You can't be evangelical and associate yourself with Jesus and what he says about the poor and just have no other domestic concerns than tax cuts for wealthy people.

Jim Wallis

YourselfPeopleYouTaxPoorJust

West Indian cultural mentality and a North American life equals the perfect balance.

Melanie Fiona

LifeBalanceAmericanPerfectWest

In fiction, you don't invent the events. What is imaginative about it is the consciousness: how you think about the events and how you present them. And that changes the nature of everything, and that is the attraction of writing fiction.

Amitava Kumar

NatureWritingThinkPresentYou

If you're not on a major label today, you're not gonna get played. They've got the market sewed up.

Mickey Gilley

TodayYouUpGotGetMarket

I think the membrane - I say that the membrane between life and death is perilously thin. And I do think the story of Jesus, this great mythical story, can have transforming value in our lives.

Jay Parini

LifeGreatDeathValueStoryThink

I'm really pleased to share the 'Station to Station' film. It has a very unorthodox structure; it's made up of separate one-minute films. So you watch this piece that is like time moving. Everything is democratised, whether it's a minute of Patti Smith or a single landscape with a drone, it's this amazing modern kaleidoscope.

Doug Aitken

TimeAmazingMovingLandscapeYou

A duped newspaper or magazine could contend that a fiction-spouting journalist obtained part of his salary via fraud, and use a criminal proceeding to try and recoup that money. Given the profession's notoriously low wages, however, it's probably not worth the publicity headache and legal fees. No news organization has ever pursued such a case.

Brendan I. Koerner

MoneyOrganizationLegalWorthNews

A hat has to be shaped to a person's face so it fights just right. It has to be done right. If you put my hat on, with my shape, you'd look like an idiot. If the bill is too high or too saggy, you look like a European tourist going to their first country concert.

Brad Paisley

HatFaceIdiotYouLookPerson

As far as the creative process goes, I always make sure that anything that gets discussed or talked about in the record is true to form. I make it a point not to sing anything that I haven't felt or gone through.

Bridget Kelly

CreativeProcessTrueAnythingGone

When I die, I will not be guilty of having left a generation of girls behind thinking that anyone can tend to their emotional health other than themselves.

Ntozake Shange

HealthThinkingGenerationDieWill

I've done some effects shots. I've done some compositing. And in 'Just Like Heaven' did a lot of, like, motion control and things like that. But never done, like, computer-generated imagery in action.

Mark Waters

ControlActionHeavenDoneNever

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Knute Rockne

WinWin Or LoseLoseFairly

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