Gustave Flaubert Quotes

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

Gustave Flaubert

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PoetryGeometryPreciseThing

This is the sheriff you're talking about, with a gun and badge that enforces the law. Nothing is going to stop me from cracking down on illegal immigration as long as the laws are there.

Joe Arpaio

MeLawGunImmigrationTalkingYou

It's the best marriage of songs and production. But I have to say, I have an affinity for Bossanova.

Joey Santiago

MarriageBestSayProductionSongs

The obvious thing is I would love to fight Conor McGregor. We've got some history there, and he won, and people saying he didn't knock me out because of an injury he had. I was injured in the fight, too, so let's test that theory. I want to test that theory.

Max Holloway

LoveHistoryFightPeopleMeSaying

No leader, however strong, can succeed at anything of national importance or significance unless he has the support and cooperation of the people he is tasked to lead and sworn to serve.

Rodrigo Duterte

LeaderSupportPeopleSucceedStrong

When friends wanted to go to the centre of town, they took a bus or tram. I took the ball and went running after them. School was hell because I had to put the ball on the ground. Outside, I was free, playing the ball.

Robin Van Persie

SchoolFreeHellFriendsGoOutside

I feel it is now my duty to speak to young women, to encourage them to have careers and, particularly, careers in science.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

WomenScienceSpeakFeelYoungDuty

Hamilton had a certain social versatility, and in a way, that is understandable because he's someone who rises up from the lowest rungs of society and then scales the top. And he gets to know people from every strata along the way.

Ron Chernow

PeopleSocietySomeoneKnowWayTop

Modern love - in the movies and music - especially country music - is full of tales of women exacting sweet revenge on the men who done them wrong.

Mary Kay Andrews

LoveWomenMusicMenSweetRevenge

There is nothing like the indignity of not fitting into a roller coaster.

Mick Foley

NothingRoller CoasterLikeFitting

I have ideas that I will probably never write now.

Doris Lessing

IdeasNowWillNeverWrite

There's a lot of stuff out there that government shouldn't do.

Chuck Fleischmann

GovernmentOutStuffLot

I love wearing bow ties for no particular reason.

Brad Goreski

LoveReasonBowWearingTiesI Love

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