Honore de Balzac Quotes

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

Honore de Balzac

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TiredYouGenuinePleasureProperty

My whole life, I wanted to be an actor. Perhaps the seed was planted when I saw Sigourney Weaver in 'Alien', wiping the floor with the men on the ship.

Jessica Chastain

LifeMenSeedShipAlienActor

I do think - I always tell that to young people - go to college, do theater, work with an audience. Don't try to learn how to act in front of millions and millions of people. Don't make that your first ambition, to be on a sitcom or get into the movies. Learn who you are as an actor, and the best way to do that is to do it in front of an audience.

John Lithgow

WorkBestPeopleCollegeAmbition

I lost a dear friend of mine from a rugby injury at 26. We don't usually deal with mortality at that early age and it's given me an appreciation of time, of trying to fit everything in.

Matthew Rhys

FriendAgeTimeAppreciationMe

I think every role you get is going to be a powerful one. As long as you go in with the mindset of, 'Yeah, I'm going to make the most of this.' So that's the kind of attitude I take into each role that I play.

Anna Hutchison

AttitudeThinkMindsetYouPowerful

Businesses large and small shouldn't have to check the expiration date of a tax provision to see if it's still good.

Michael Enzi

GoodSmallTaxSeeCheckDate

I hope I am a psychotherapist's dream. I've spent enough hours in therapy.

Sia

HopeI AmEnoughDreamTherapyAm

Sometimes, I work a little more from emotion than I do from rational thought.

Ronnie Dunn

WorkThoughtSometimesMoreEmotion

In football, you never know what can happen tomorrow. This is the elite, and you have to be ready for any situation that can occur.

Julen Lopetegui

FootballTomorrowYouSituationKnow

My dad never quit no matter what. He couldn't see, but he never let that stop him. Most people, when something like that happens, they just think their life is over. But that's not true. My dad can still do things like a normal person. He still cooks; he still watches my sister and my brother's baby when my mom's not home.

Jason Pierre-Paul

LifeHomeBrotherBabyMomSister

I had a Screech-from-'Saved by the Bell' kind of vibe in that I hung out with people and had friends while having, like, big, curly hair and being generally a dork.

Josh Gondelman

PeopleHairFriendsKindCurlyBell

There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.

Bruce Springsteen

MusicBestPatriotismAngryReal

My father fought in the war, and then he was posted all 'round the world with his job. So I didn't know him very well when I was young.

Anne Reid

FatherJobWarWorldKnowYoung

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