Gustave Flaubert Quotes

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Gustave Flaubert

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: December 12, 1821 - May 8, 1880

Topics

ArtPerfectionEverythingAnything

Without third parties, all forward movement stops. They're essential. They're not just OK. They are absolutely essential.

Jill Stein

ForwardMovementWithoutJustOK

I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're close to that.

Robert Redford

CultureSocietyBelieveDieWithout

The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, consists in the differentiation of the parts of speech and the integration of the sentence.

John Wesley Powell

OrganizationLanguageSpeechOrgans

We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions.

John Searle

CarUnderstandingNothingCognitive

When I was little, I always used to like to tell stories cuz it was entertaining to people.

Slick Rick

PeopleAlwaysTellLittleUsedLike

If you want to sell the most records, duet with me. If you need someone to come in and bless your record sales, I'm your man.

Robbie Williams

ManMeSomeoneYouWantNeed

Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.

Robert A. Heinlein

LoveLove IsExerciseSexHealthy

Sewage works that serve big cities run into trouble when the cities grow up around them.

Rose George

GrowTroubleRunGrow UpBigServe

I find, in film, we're always making things and having these intense friendships and then losing track of people. When I first start a job, I'm quite nervous, and it takes me a while to find my place, and then it feels like I'm just really loving it and feeling great, and it's all over.

Miranda Otto

GreatJobLosingPeopleMeStart

I'm a part of the no-tight-jeans coalition.

Ludacris

CoalitionPart

Tom has a gilded life which I have had a glimpse of. Yes, he does travel in private jets.

Dominic Holland

LifeTravelYesGlimpseHeGilded

Francis Lawrence is an astonishing filmmaker, an incredibly gifted visual filmmaker. I have great respect for his work.

David Slade

WorkRespectGreatGiftedFilmmaker

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