Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: June 29, 1900 - July 31, 1944

Topics

WorkSeaPeopleShipLongYou

When we finally came to start work on this, the joy was it was only Joel and I, we didn't have to answer to anybody, and we didn't have to submit a screen play or anything like that. We just wrote it and then made it.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

WorkJoyStartPlayAnythingAnswer

It does no good to believe in what does not exist to the point one cannot focus on what is real. That would be the greatest tragedy of any 'conspiracy.'

John Ridley

GoodFocusBelieveTragedyReal

It's easy to mock a man who has founded a religion based on John Coltrane, who considers 'A Love Supreme,' whatever its merits as a jazz album, to be holy scripture.

Tucker Carlson

LoveManReligionEasyJazzHoly

Oh, I've never gone off into that 'the room's not the right temperature, take this tea back' stuff. I still scrub my own toilet and vacuum the carpet, and I have to be able to push my trolley around Morrisons and do my shopping.

Rob Halford

TeaShoppingPushBackMy OwnNever

But first, the news: The House of Commons was sealed off today after police chased an escaped lunatic through the front door during Prime Minister's question time. A spokesman at Scotland Yard said it was like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Ronnie Barker

TodayTimePoliceDoorLookingNews

There is so much focus on being self-sufficient, and it makes it very difficult to ask for things. I've been crippled by this notion of high-functioning self-sufficiency. And I see it a lot in younger girls. Asking for help brings people closer in a way that I suspected but didn't actually put into practice.

Mary H.K. Choi

FocusPracticePeopleHelpWaySee

Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.

Mary McCarthy

GoodMomentActionRegretThinkBad

America's neighbors are not drilling for fun or for sport; they've chosen to proceed to create new jobs, generate new revenues, and increase the energy supply and prosperity of their citizens.

Lisa Murkowski

FunEnergyAmericaCreateNew

I have great faith in the people of Montana; they can't be bought.

Jon Tester

FaithGreatPeopleMontanaBought

My first three years of high school, I wasn't that cool.

Jonathan Bennett

SchoolCoolHigh SchoolThreeHigh

I love Baltimore. This city has made me the man that I am.

DeRay Mckesson

LoveManI AmCityMeMade

People understand about family; people understand about being in situations where you have to be brave. People get falling in love.

Deborah Mailman

FamilyLovePeopleBraveYouGet

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