Alain de Botton Quotes

I keep a picture of my beloved children close by. Also, water and plenty of pads and pens.

Alain de Botton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ChildrenWaterPictureKeepClose

I'm totally in control of this tiny, tiny world right there at the typewriter.

Joan Didion

ControlWorldRightTypewriterTiny

I just don't like to dwell on stuff.

Joe Torre

DwellJustLikeStuff

You can separate the church and state all you like, but Christmas is inescapable, and it's marvellous, and it's not going away.

Robert Rinder

ChurchYouChristmasAwayGoing

America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.

Anna Quindlen

ConflictIndependenceAmericaCountry

I'm much more low-key than the characters I've played.

Matt LeBlanc

MoreLow-KeyThanMuchCharacters

At one point in your life, you'll have the thing you want or the reasons why you don't.

Andy Roddick

LifeYouWantWhyPointYour

Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it.

Simon Callow

WorkPoetryHouseVisionaryJust

Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

Augustus Hare

NatureHeavenEarthNothingThan

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.

William Sloane Coffin

LoveTruthWorldSmallDangerous

We just set it up and recorded it the way we played it. But that was the way we played it then.

Alice Cooper

WayUpJustSetPlayedThen

The worst thing we could do is impose time limits and then expect people to sink or swim once they move off welfare.

William Julius Wilson

TimePeopleLimitsWorstExpectOff

I swear to God, I went in to buy bikinis, and the lady's like, 'You're not getting out of this store 'til you get down there and show me what you do for those abs and the arms.' She wouldn't sell me my bikinis! I had to get on the floor and do the stomach thing.

Sharon Stone

GodMeLadyYouDownShe

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