Rene Daumal Quotes

Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.

Rene Daumal

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: March 16, 1908 - May 21, 1944

Topics

ExperienceWordsValueGoldWithout

I guess I've always been a groupie. My first date was a bull rider called Tommy Lee Bryant. We'd go to the rodeo every Saturday and Sunday. The bull riders were the cool guys.

Jerry Hall

CoolSaturdaySundayGoBullFirst

I've hurt people unnecessarily when it was about my own insecurities. But you have to make those mistakes to become a better person.

Joel Kinnaman

MistakesPeopleBetter PersonBetter

I was fortunate that Yale has a very open and creative law school. I took many courses outside the law school, and every semester, the students had a literature reading group. I was asked to lead one on 'Dante and the Concept of Justice,' and it was around that time that I began writing the novel.

Matthew Pearl

TimeJusticeCreativeSchoolLaw

It's great that I get accused of not being politically correct. People need to take themselves less seriously. This world is so screwed up as it is, we've all got to relax a bit more.

Michael Bay

GreatPeopleRelaxWorldSeriously

Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.

Johnny Carson

TogetherPlaceNewBankWithoutGet

The guy keeps making speeches about redistribution and maybe we ought to do something to businesses that don't invest, their holding too much money. We haven't heard that kind of talk except from pure socialists. Everybody's afraid of the government and there's no need soft peddling it, it's the truth. It is the truth.

Steve Wynn

TruthMoneyGovernmentToo MuchKind

The best way to escape from your problem is to solve it.

Robert Anthony

BestProblemEscapeWayYourSolve

My sense is that, when you look at what people such as former Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein have said over the years, you don't go with a story unless you have two independent sources to confirm it.

Ron Wyden

PeopleStoryYouLookGoSaid

I read several books at one time.

Roland Martin

TimeBooksReadOne TimeSeveral

Protection of religious freedom means considering the faiths and beliefs of everyone involved.

Mike Quigley

FreedomEveryoneProtectionBeliefs

Jack doesn't belong anymore to just a family. He belongs to the country.

Joseph P. Kennedy

FamilyCountryBelongJustHeJack

A vacation from school should not mean hunger for our children.

Dina Titus

ChildrenVacationSchoolMeanHunger

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