Delphine de Girardin Quotes

To love the one who loves you, To admire the one who admires you, In a word, to be the idol of one's idol, Is exceeding the limit of human joy; It is stealing fire from heaven.

Delphine de Girardin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: January 24, 1804 - June 29, 1855

Topics

LoveFireJoyYouHeavenAdmire

When I was an undergrad at Stanford, there was a girl named Jennie Kim who worked for the school newspaper. Sometimes people would come up to me and talk to me about articles she had written. 'That one on getting a Brazilian was hilarious', some guy said, high-fiving me.

Jenny Zhang

GirlSchoolPeopleMeSometimesShe

When I got inaugurated in 2010, OneRepublic donated their time and played for the inauguration. And my stepfather, who is 86, came out. He usually goes to bed at eight o'clock, but he stayed for the entire concert. It was awesome.

John Hickenlooper

TimeBedAwesomeOutConcertGot

People are taken aback by a confident, pretty girl who knows what she wants in life and isn't going to let anyone get in her way. And you know what it's all about? Jealousy.

Summer Altice

LifeGirlJealousyPeopleConfident

Stalin had 15 scenic seaside villas, some of them czarist palaces, on the Black Sea coast of Abkhazia. In 2002, I visited and photographed these extraordinarily well-preserved Stalinist time capsules.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

SeaTimeBlackCoastSomePalaces

In high school I was making beats for my friends and for myself and rapping over them.

Mike Shinoda

MyselfSchoolHigh SchoolFriends

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

Louis Armstrong

MusicSongHorseNeverSingFolk

Just because Galileo was a heretic doesn't make every heretic a Galileo.

Jay Griffiths

Just BecauseBecauseMakeJustEvery

I loved 'Buddy Faro.' I loved the whole idea.

Dennis Farina

LovedWholeIdeaBuddy

I wish I'd had more fun in college. I spent a lot of time in my dorm room, reading or writing while listening to my Sarah McLachlan Pandora station.

Chloe Benjamin

TimeFunCollegeListeningWriting

You should take some responsibility for the way you present yourself. But you should not be hung up on your looks, whether you are ugly or handsome, because it isn't an achievement.

Christopher Reeve

ResponsibilityAchievementYourself

I think people liked the way I fight.

Chuck Liddell

FightPeopleThinkWayI Think

Here's the thing that I think about life - if you manage to get into a space where you don't need that much, where the overhead of your life is not that great and you're pretty happy and relaxed without that much stuff, you are really liberated because you never have to say yes to something because you want another refrigerator or car!

Brit Marling

LifeCarGreatSpaceHappyThink

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