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Alfred de Musset Quotes

Great artists have no country.

Alfred de Musset

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: french
Birth: December 11, 1810 - May 2, 1857

Topics

Great Country Artists No Country

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.

Jeanette Winterson

Live Alone Cats Pet Vegetables Feed

The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants.

Care Design Interesting Customer

There are some fabulous treasures of photos of me during the early days of my career; there are these pin-up photos that make me laugh: I look like the poor man's Maria Montez. But there are some I look at, and I didn't realize how sexy I looked back then.

Man Me Sexy Laugh Look Early

There's something about Vonnegut's deadpan irony that I really like. And I like Borges' puzzle structure.

Puzzle Irony Structure Something

I'm shy at public speaking, which is tough.

Tough Shy Public Speaking Speaking

I probably felt most out of place as a young kid growing up in Sri Lanka. My mental world was somewhere else, partly because of reading and daydreaming.

Romesh Gunesekera

Growing Up World Reading Place Young

Often when I meet people and say I'm a designer, they say, 'Oh, a fashion designer.' Which is not a bad thing I suppose, a bit groovy.

People Fashion Bad Say Meet Groovy

I remember plastering the kitchen with Black Power pictures of Angela Davis.

Power Kitchen Black Remember Angela

I'm developing the stuff all the time. There's a film in my head. I'm imagining a film.

Time Head Film Stuff Imagining

Writing has always helped me to make sense of difficult things.

Me Writing Difficult Always Things

But if the choice is a cool president and 8 or 10 percent unemployment in a declining economy and a country that seems to be going in the wrong direction and structural unemployment for young people at 50 percent, I'd rather have a dorky president who fixed those problems.

People Cool Problems Direction Wrong

I like to look at things that have been developed and re-developed over the course of time so I know the bugs are worked out of it. And in the business itself, I like to look at sales, by far. I want to see that there is a vetted track record of sales to show the price point has worked.

Business Time Look Price Know Want

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