Gustave Flaubert Quotes

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Gustave Flaubert

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CommunicationArtWritingBelieve

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

John Fowles

IntelligenceStupidIntelligentTwo

I'm not a chocolate man. I'm Skittles, anything made by Wonka. You know, I like candy, not chocolate.

Michael Beasley

ManChocolateYouKnowCandyMade

My thing is, I want to play basketball, I would enjoy playing in the D-League, but at the same time I don't want to take an opportunity away from a young guy to get exposure. I'm still thinking about it.

Michael Finley

OpportunityTimeBasketballThinking

The more we can do to address fiscal austerity, the better our markets will do, and there is a real political shift to doing that.

Meredith Whitney

BetterPoliticalDoingWillMore

I think of myself as the eyes and ears and voice of the reader.

Robin Givhan

EyesMyselfVoiceThinkEarsReader

Most people have this protective view of the presidency. Anybody who holds the office is always gonna get the benefit of the doubt unless the media spends four years destroying them like they did Bush, and with Bush not returning fire.

Rush Limbaugh

FirePeopleViewMediaDoubtOffice

I am so picky about what films I get myself into because it's such an explosion of energy and commitment once you get in there, you destroy your life until you deliver these films. I never want to be in the position of making films that won't be a great use of 90 minutes of someone's life.

Lucy Walker

LifeGreatMyselfCommitmentI Am

When I play a good guy, I try to explore them and figure out what shapes them and makes them interesting. When I'm playing a bad guy, I try to explore everything that makes them good. No one ever really thinks that they're a bad guy.

William Katt

GoodInterestingBadPlayTryOut

If the State cannot survive the anti-slavery agitation, then let the State perish. If the Church must be cast down by the strugglings of Humanity to be free, then let the Church fall and its fragments be scattered to the four winds of Heaven, never more to curse the earth.

William Lloyd Garrison

SurviveFreeChurchHumanityHeaven

It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.

Phillips Brooks

GreatMenGreat ThingsGreat Men

Places have charisma, in short, as much as people do.

Pico Iyer

PeopleShortPlacesCharismaMuch

The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die.

Pierre de Coubertin

HappinessPowerDayBalanceEffort

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