Alain de Botton Quotes

I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed.

Alain de Botton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: December 20, 1969

Topics

LoveMarriageSocietyYouSexEver

Members walk into the chamber full of hatred. They believe the worst lies about the other side. Two senators stopped by my office just a few hours ago. Why? They had a plot to nail somebody on the other side. That's what Congress has come to.

Jim Cooper

WalkBelieveWhyWorstOfficeSide

I never second-guess myself.

Michael Cimino

MyselfNeverSecond-Guess

Beauty is often worse than wine; intoxicating both the holder and beholder.

John Zimmerman

BeautyWineWorseThanBeholder

'The Hunger Games' for me is I love the books so much and the character and the story were incredible. That's kind of the game plan is just do really interesting stories with interesting characters.

Josh Hutcherson

LoveCharacterMeGameStoryPlan

The hardest part about acting is realizing it doesn't matter.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

ActingMatterHardestPartAbout

When I read the 'Dick and Jane' stories, I thought they were afraid they might forget each other's names because they always said each other's names - a lot. So if Jane didn't see the dog, Dick would say, 'Look Jane, look. There is the dog next to Sally, Jane. The dog is also next to mother, Jane. The dog is next to father, Jane.'

Jon Scieszka

DogFatherMotherThoughtLookSaid

I was singing before I started acting. As a kid, I would always perform at the big family parties.

Chrissie Fit

FamilySingingActingKidAlways

When I think of a video game, I think about how I'd love to have Buddy Rogers vs. Ric Flair, something like that, where you can wrestle these Legends against each other from different periods and stuff.

Bret Hart

LoveGameThinkYouLegendsAgainst

It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is the meaning of committees. But the real work must always be done by one or two men.

Anthony Trollope

WorkMenTogetherWorldBelieve

The preciousness of life and the changes of weather and the beauty of seasons - all those things have always sort of dazzled me.

Anthony Doerr

LifeBeautyMeWeatherSeasonsSort

No parent should have their child die before he or she does.

Phil Knight

ChildParentDieSheHeShould

I think it always helps when you build a character, and then, you actually step into that character's wardrobe, something else happens. Another angle of the character comes to life.

Scott Michael Foster

LifeCharacterStepThinkYouBuild

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