Alain de Botton Quotes

In 'Art as Therapy', we argue that art is a tool that can variously help to inspire, console, redeem, guide, comfort, expand and reawaken us.

Alain de Botton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ArtInspireHelpComfortTherapyUs

With each book, I'm trying to do something that terrifies me.

Andrew Sean Greer

MeBookTryingSomethingEach

I've experienced a private doubt, something that I've kept deeply inside, and then eventually delivered a piece of work that people responded to with huge enthusiasm.

Trevor Nunn

WorkPeopleEnthusiasmDoubtInside

While Obama, the olive-branch poseur, has called for a restoration of 'civility' in Washington and liberal elites whine and whinny about the need for 'no labels,' class-warfare demagoguery has metastasized unchecked.

Michelle Malkin

CivilityWashingtonNeedLiberal

The faith-based thing is really important for me. There are certain situations that I would not have been able to make through without the promises He makes and gave for us.

Jordin Sparks

MePromisesImportantWithoutUsHe

I'll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.

Dick Cavett

HappyBe HappyI CanOutStayJust

I have done a lot of sci-fi, not out of choice, necessarily. It's just that I'm Canadian, and it's more cost-efficient to film sci-fi up here.

Christina Cox

ChoiceDoneMoreOutUpHere

Anything you can suck at should make you nervous.

Chris Rock

YouNervousAnythingSuckShould

We had said, it was either all of us or none of us.

Connie Sellecca

SaidUsNoneEitherHad

I knew what I wanted to do with my life: I wanted to fight.

Brian Ortega

LifeFightMy LifeKnewWanted

My time inside there was very short compared to the amount of time it took to take on and take off this suit and to test me for how much radioactivity I have.

William Scranton

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Phil has the classic, mature beard. Jase's is kind of red - it's weird, like him! Jep grooms his the most: He's got all these special lotions and perfumes that he puts on.

Willie Robertson

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Hardly can it be judged whether it be better for mankind to believe that the gods have regard of us, or that they have none, considering that some men have no respect and reverence for the gods, and others so much that their superstition is a shame to them.

Pliny the Elder

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