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Alain de Botton Quotes

What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.

Alain de Botton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Marriage Why Get Married Get Married

Cross cultural experience teaches us not simply that people have different beliefs, but that people seek meaning and understand themselves in some sense as members of a cosmos ruled by God.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

God Experience People Meaning Seek

I definitely script things out. I definitely write things down and try to write jokes. Often, they're terrible. I often write terrible, terrible jokes.

Michael Ian Black

Down Try Write Out Jokes Things

I also wanted to do something that I hadn't really seen in almost any black novels, which was a complex love story in which both people were extremely intelligent and talented and understood a lot of things and were still at odds getting it together.

Love Together People Story Black

I never go online. The Internet stuff is bonkers. You must not look at it.

Internet You Look Go Never Stuff

I was born in Russia in 1901 of Jewish parents and came to the United States in 1922 to join my father, who left Russia for the United States before World War I.

Father War Parents World Born Left

We have a great sense of togetherness. It is our team spirit that has taken us to this World Cup.

Great Team World Spirit Togetherness

I was in really good shape after I finished this movie, 'End of Watch.'

Good End Shape Watch Movie Finished

I can cry at the drop of the pin. But comedy is hard for me; it's the timing.

Me Comedy I Can Cry Timing Hard

The problem with being in the public eye for a long time is there are 20 years worth of looks to come back and haunt you!

Time Eye Problem Long Worth You

And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age.

Beauty Age Woman Win Feet Never

I find that when I write, I need things to be quiet, but when I design, I can't bear it if it's quiet.

Design Find Quiet Bear Write Need

While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself.

Yourself Anger Revenge Two Dig

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