Louis Aragon Quotes

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

Louis Aragon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: October 3, 1897 - December 24, 1982

Topics

LifeTruthBlack And WhiteLight

One of the main secrets to staying young is staying healthy. I've sometimes had to suppress a smile when some young lady, who has obviously not taken care of herself through diet or exercise, says admiringly, 'Ooh, I hope I look as good as you do when I'm your age!' Although it's intended to be complimentary, it's actually a back-hander.

Joan Collins

SmileGoodAgeHopeCareDiet

I want the little lassies who are thinking of going to a nightclub in Cardiff to stop to see what that guy's screaming for, or Grandma to put her knitting down to see why that guy's chatting about Alexander the Great. I'm after pulling in, whether it's in Manila, Beijing or whatever, the biggest possible audience.

Sid Waddell

GreatThinkingDownStopPossible

I do a lot of cooking; we eat a lot of fish, but I try not to make fattening things.

Roger Moore

CookingFishTryEatThingsMake

You know, as you compose music, you're just off in your own world. You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.

Roy Lichtenstein

MusicPeopleWorldThinkReality

I don't fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach.

Mary Roach

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Television has taught me an economy of style I didn't have before. I feel it has done me nothing but good.

Diana Rigg

GoodStyleMeFeelTelevisionDone

When you get in a job, the tendency is to say, 'I've got to know it. I've got to give direction to others. I'm in this job because I'm better and smarter.' I always took a different view, that the key was to identify the people who really knew and learn from them.

Anne M. Mulcahy

JobPeopleDirectionKeyBetterYou

It's safe to say I'm a comedy nerd. I listen to so many podcasts. I just love to laugh.

Allison Williams

LoveLaughComedySayListenSafe

There was a period of time when I thought I had to be Alice Cooper all the time.

Alice Cooper

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Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.

Woodrow Wilson

LifeMenPastCollegeYoungMiddle

I consider myself something of a raconteur. I have a rather audacious sense of humour.

Sylvester Stallone

MyselfHumourSomethingSenseRather

By 2025, more than half of the power units you see on the road will have some relevance of electrification. There may be a base combustion engine, but it is combustion and electrification that will make the machine run.

Sergio Marchionne

PowerRoadYouRunWillSee

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