Alain de Botton Quotes

I don't want to say that our expectations of love are too high; it's just that if we're to meet them, we have to become a little more self-aware.

Alain de Botton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LoveExpectationsWantMeetBecome

I think the U.K. would be perfectly successful as a standalone country, part of the European marketplace like Norway and Switzerland but without the expensive E.U. bureaucracy.

Jim Ratcliffe

ThinkCountryBureaucracySwitzerland

Every woman should wear make-up. It takes years off. I'm wearing lots of false eyelashes today, and to me, lipstick is the best cosmetic that exists.

Joan Collins

TodayBestWomanMeLipstickYears

The feedback for 'P.S. I Still Love You' has been pretty amazing. To have written this story about this family with Asian-American characters and be so embraced is really incredible for me as a writer as well as a person of color.

Jenny Han

FamilyLoveAmazingMeColorStory

I think it's so important in preschool and in kindergarten and elementary school that we're not biasing ourselves.

Megan Smith

SchoolThinkImportantKindergarten

Small samples in the centrifuge will spin at varying rates to create synthetic gravity, like the gravity of Mars or the gravity of the moon, and measure how the specimens respond within the centrifuge.

John L. Phillips

MoonSmallMeasureCreateGravity

I couldn't resist painting Orpheus and Charon on the River Styx. There was something strangely intriguing about seeing Orpheus playing his lyre as he is being shuttled across the river.

John Rocco

RiverPaintingSeeingSomethingHe

One of the first duties of a Scout is obedience to authority. He must obey his orders in the first place and put his own amusement or desires in the second.

Robert Baden-Powell

ScoutPlaceAuthorityObedienceOwn

I haven't strength of mind not to need a career.

Ruth Benedict

StrengthMindCareerNeed

I don't play an instrument. I pretend. I try to.

Matt Berninger

PlayTryPretendInstrument

I have a great job writing for 'The Office,' but, really, all television writers do is dream of one day writing movies. I'll put it this way: At the Oscars the most famous person in the room is, like, Angelina Jolie. At the Emmys the huge exciting celebrity is Bethenny Frankel. You get what I mean.

Mindy Kaling

GreatDayJobWritingYouDream

It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful.

Joyce Maynard

MoneyUglyPeopleMeWritingSpeak

It feels like as you get a bit older, you've worked out the things that are good for your life apart from with acting.

Dolly Wells

LifeGoodYouActingOutThings

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