Gustave Flaubert Quotes

I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.

Gustave Flaubert

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkLoveHairShirtBellyHis

I was born on May 17, 1979, in Newark, New Jersey.

Joe Tex

BornNewMayJerseyI Was Born

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

Maya Angelou

ChangeAttitudeYouSomethingYour

It has always been more expensive for the poor to borrow money. We see this in everything from mortgage rates to credit cards.

John Niven

MoneyCreditCardsMortgagePoor

We're under the Arts Council under the Minister for the Arts. The Minister for the Arts and the Minister for Industrial Development have great difficulty in agreeing over who should fund what in terms of film.

Ann Macbeth

GreatDevelopmentOverArtsFilm

Nothing ever comes out the way I hope it will. That first vision, that initial vision you have of a book, what it's going to be like when it's done, it begins to go wrong the second you start to write.

Michael Chabon

HopeVisionStartBookYouWrong

The truth is that everyone pays attention to who's number one at the box office. And none of it matters, because the only thing that really exists is the connection the audience has with a movie.

Tom Hanks

TruthTruth IsAttentionConnection

Any time you approach anything in fear and aggression or in self-preservation mode, you are going to scare people off. But if you go in love, with the idea of being the feet and hands of Christ, if you go with the idea of showing the love of Christ, then they become softened because love changes all.

Ron Hall

LoveFearTimePeopleFeetHands

Every painful consequence of sin is a part of the punishment meted out for sin.

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

SinPunishmentOutPainfulPart

People still look at me as the champion and that's very important to me.

Marvin Hagler

PeopleMeChampionLookImportant

I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities.

Joshua Lederberg

EducationScienceMePressureElders

Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.

Dmitri Mendeleev

WorkPeaceCalmYouLookFind

Do dirt, get dirt. So I treat people with the same respect that I want.

DMX

RespectPeopleTreatWantSameDirt

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