Denis Diderot Quotes

We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.

Denis Diderot

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: editor
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: October 5, 1713 - July 31, 1784

Topics

MemoryFeelingStrikeStringsSenses

Is it rather stupid and dangerous to take Magna Carta so much for granted, as many of us seem to do, and to think of this attitude as 'very English?'

Melvyn Bragg

AttitudeStupidThinkDangerousSeem

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.

Robert Greene

MenFallOutThingsCupLip

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it's just noise that can be a distraction.

Robert Kiyosaki

SayingFeedbackStrongerYouLook

Some time ago, I learned how to say, 'What's the worst thing that could happen up there?' I could mess up some words, I could sing flat... I could appear human. Is that really the worst thing in the world?

Ann Wilson

TimeWordsWorldSayWorstHuman

All I'm really interested in musically is trying to make concept albums. Serving a larger sum than the parts.

Sturgill Simpson

TryingMusicallyServingThanSum

When I saw houses in Palmdale going for $500K, I knew something was wrong. If you got foreclosed, I don't feel sorry for you!

Tom Leykis

SorryFeelYouWrongGoingSaw

I love the liver kick.

Luke Rockhold

LoveLiverKickI Love

I need my time to be lonely.

Jose Mourinho

TimeLonelyNeedMy Time

Deep inside, I am desperate to do comedy.

David Suchet

I AmDeepComedyInsideDesperate

Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.

Christopher Lasch

FamilyWomenRightOwnLeftMost

Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.

Anthony Burgess

PeopleEnergyViolenceCreateYoung

My career got off to a very shaky start when I dropped out of school at the age of 18. Despite my lack of academic credentials, I got a job as a fashion assistant at 'Harper's & Queen.'

Anna Wintour

AgeJobSchoolQueenFashionStart

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