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Honore de Balzac Quotes

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

Honore de Balzac

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: french
Birth: May 20, 1799 - August 18, 1850

Topics

Love Men Woman Pain Suffering Look

We women continue to swallow this line that it's unladylike or even proof of being a lesbian if you wear flat shoes like Doc Martens. I'm prepared to put up with that accusation, because at least my feet aren't killing me and I don't look like a bandy ostrich.

Women Shoes Me Feet You Look

Having been an actor in Hollywood for a certain amount of time, I always felt a pressure to be sort of a neutral person. 'Don't do anything to your hair. Don't tell them your age. Don't tell them you're gay. Don't tell them anything that could limit you, specify you as a person.' I always hated that, actually moved out of L.A. because of that.

John Cameron Mitchell

Age Time Hair Pressure You Gay

When I look back at my childhood on the Ayrshire coast, I recall a basic devotion to the idea that human nature and national character are as unknowable as the weather's rationale.

Nature Character Childhood Weather

Women are now very comfortable to have babies into their late 30s. You can be a father in your 50s. I'm not saying it's for everybody, and I think people have to get their own life secure before they take on the responsibility of a partner and children.

Michael Douglas

Life Father Women Children People

I've learned several lessons over the years. First, never take yourself too seriously, or work is boring. Next, people make the difference. You can have great technology, but if it's not complemented by great people, it won't go anywhere. Finally, customers buy from people they like.

John W. Thompson

Work Technology Great Yourself You

There needs to be a planned series of speeches, interviews, etc., over the next two or three months by administration officials and other public figures talking about President Ford, what he is trying to do and what he has accomplished.

Talking Trying Three President Over

After my time in Holland, an inner battle ensued in which I tried to free myself from the influence of Schinkelesque classicism.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Time Myself Influence Free Battle

I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance where I lent my name in the past, it was certainly without knowledge that such an organization was subversive. I have always been essentially and foremost an American.

Knowledge Past I Am Organization

I miss my pre-Internet brain, but that doesn't help anything. We can only go forward.

Douglas Coupland

Brain Forward Help Go Anything Miss

There are some people whose opinion I value and respect and it would be very bothersome if I forfeited their respect. But the general public? I'm not preoccupied with the opinions of others.

Respect Value People Opinion Others

A plumber is an adventurer who traces leaky pipes to their source.

Plumber Source Who Pipes Traces

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

Travel Fool Man Wise Better Worse

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