Alain de Botton Quotes

Religions have always been clearly on to this psycho-therapeutic score. For hundreds of years in the West, Christian art had a very clear function: it was meant to direct us towards the good and wean us off vice.

Alain de Botton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GoodArtChristianReligionsVice

There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.

Joan Rivers

GirlBeautifulLittleWhoFemale

I don't look at Twitter between events because it's a distraction but I will ring my fiance and parents to let them know how it's going.

Jessica Ennis-Hill

ParentsLookKnowRingWillEvents

I think the life of an actor is glamorous to other people, but then the reality sets in: you don't know where you will be next year or how long you'll be there for.

Joel Edgerton

LifePeopleThinkRealityYearYou

Keeping a guy in prison costs 50,000 bucks a year. Executing one costs a couple million.

John Grisham

PrisonYearGuyCostsMillionBucks

I'm the person friends come to when they want to find the perfect restaurant or boutique hotel on the outskirts of Paris. As opposed to scouring the Internet for a travel guide, wouldn't you rather ask the people who are really cool who go there? That's what I do.

Meghan Markle

TravelPeopleCoolRestaurantHotel

I just have to play my best against my opponents.

Angelique Kerber

BestPlayAgainstJustOpponents

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

Stephen Hawking

LifeWorkPurposeMeaningYouEmpty

You gotta know that you're better than anybody, 'cause to me, if you don't go in like that, you're gonna lose! They're gonna punk you out! On any stage, court, business venture, on the anchor desk - whatever. You've got to go in believing, 'I can do this better than anybody.'

Stuart Scott

BusinessMeBetterYouLoseI Can

Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.

Sofia Kovalevskaya

OpportunityScienceGreatMathematics

I was on the train from London to Paris, and all of a sudden it just popped into my head: I'm going to do the Don Loper fashion show from 'I Love Lucy.'

Tom Ford

LoveFashionTrainParisLondon

A lot of people are really excited to see the continuation of Cory and Topanga and 'Boy Meets World'. I was getting a lot of positive feedback, which I was really happy about.

Rowan Blanchard

PositiveHappyPeopleWorldFeedback

In a democracy, when you get 20 million people in the street, you resign.

Mohamed ElBaradei

PeopleDemocracyYouStreetGet

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