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Theophile Gautier Quotes

Sooner barbarity than boredom.

Theophile Gautier

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: french
Birth: August 30, 1811 - October 23, 1872

Topics

Boredom Than Sooner

We retell our favorite stories. That's what we've done since we were sitting around campfires. It's a part of the human spirit. It doesn't have to be negative to creativity. It can be completely opposite. That's how you can break new ground: by rethinking something that's already been done.

Creativity Negative You New Done

Celebrate life in all its glory - challenge yourself to let the routine sing, and the new dance.

Maximillian Degenerez

Life Challenge Dance Yourself Glory

I did love 'The Artist.' I've seen it four times, and every time I see it, it gets better and better.

Love Time Better Artist See I See

By the time of the Civil War, there were many kinds of apples growing across the United States, but most of them didn't taste very good, and as a rule, people didn't eat them. Cider was cheaper to make than beer, and many settlers believed fermented drinks were safer than water. Everyone drank hard cider.

Good Time Water War Beer People

Relationships based on deals between leaders or ruling elites tend to collapse amid popular anger.

Anger Relationships Leaders Between

In world mythology, there are countless examples of tragic characters whose greatest strength is also the source of their undoing. But the ancient Greeks and Romans also held the view that acceptance is the beginning of wisdom.

Strength Wisdom Beginning Acceptance

I was the child at school in second-hand or handmade clothes and, as I grew older, I craved material wealth, a big house and designer clothes.

School Child Clothes Wealth House

The thing about Occupy is that the sentiment the movement embodies is timeless: Don't be greedy, share.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Movement Greedy Timeless Share About

Complexity excites the mind, and order rewards it. In the garden, one finds both, including vanishingly small orders too complex to spot, and orders so vast the mind struggles to embrace them.

Mind Small Garden Embrace Struggles

In 1975, I quit my tenure, and we moved from Ann Arbor to New Hampshire. It was daunting to pay for groceries and the mortgage by freelance writing - but it worked, and I loved doing it.

Writing Loved Doing New Quit Pay

I think I always was a bit of a class clown, but I don't know how successful I was at that. I always think, when I read about people being class clowns, I imagine them being actually very funny, and I don't know that I was. But I tried to be, I think.

Funny People Think Know Class Clown

I am so happy to be able to do what I love. To have the songs I've written for other artists go No. 1 and my songs go to No. 1 has been amazing.

Love I Am Happy Amazing Go Artists

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