Honore de Balzac Quotes

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

Honore de Balzac

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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A lot of young people think it all comes to a screeching halt once you're 32. But it really doesn't.

Megan Mullally

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Well, because we're so different as people. And it's that difference that probably also makes it easy to stay together, because we don't get in each others way.

John Oates

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Zaha Hadid's Maxxi Museum is proof that Rome and contemporary architecture are no longer a paradox. The building is characteristic Hadid - with curving lines and organic shapes - and the permanent collection already boasts works by Francesco Clemente, William Kentridge, and Gerhard Richter.

Amanda Hearst

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My childhood wasn't very happy. It's a long, grim story about being a Jew in a small southern town.

Stanley Donen

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My whole life's been stability. People who have worked with me have for a long time. Air Asia is the same people who started it.

Tony Fernandes

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'The War in the Air' describes the destruction of Manhattan by air attack.

Tom Reiss

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I haven't really met anyone else who has influenced me, but you never know, it could happen next year or next month. I just like to go with the spur of the moment.

Robin Gibb

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I don't know whether it is important to study science at a young age, though current thinking emphasises the need.

Robert Winston

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Japanese chefs believe our soul goes into our knives once we start using them. You wouldn't put your soul in a dishwasher!

Masaharu Morimoto

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If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.

Joyce Brothers

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The hockey I was raised on, the hockey I understand, the hockey that my dad taught me about when I was a boy was intrinsically connected with fighting. I grew up in a house where we revered tough guys.

Jay Baruchel

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When I learned how millions of children go to bed hungry, my only response was, 'What can I do to help?'

Christina Aguilera

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