Edmond de Goncourt Quotes

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: May 26, 1822 - July 16, 1896

Topics

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No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.

Jessica Savitch

MotivationalGoalsYouMatterMust

Once you get involved with bloodsport litigation, you can not only get drunk on your own greed but start to believe your own lies.

Jello Biafra

StartBelieveGreedYouDrunkOwn

I don't have a real recipe with measurements for my chicken stew. I just kind of make it up as I go. I made it for the first time one Christmas when I came home from college. It's guaranteed to cure a cold.

John Legend

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Being the lowest one on the totem pole is sometimes the fun part to play.

Stephnie Weir

FunPlaySometimesBeingPartPole

Competition is normal at a big club, but I've never been worried about it.

Stephan El Shaarawy

CompetitionNeverClubNormalBig

Please don't ask which I enjoy more - acting or hosting - because I love them equally.

Michael Palin

LoveEnjoyActingMoreAskBecause

The Canadian circle in L.A. is really close. There's a magnet effect where we all just huddle together somehow. It's one big Canadian family, really.

Devon Bostick

FamilyTogetherCircleMagnetBig

People are inevitably disappointed, because no one's as good as Bill Clinton's first impression. Or, he's done things. He's disappointed people in a variety of ways. And so then, the fall is hard.

Dee Dee Myers

GoodPeopleFallDoneFirstHard

I've been married for 46 years, and I live in a nice house, my grass is always cut, I pay my bills, and my cat loves me!

Christopher Walken

LiveMeHouseNiceGrassPay

There are those who would draw a sharp line between power politics and a principled foreign policy based on values. This polarized view - you are either a realist or devoted to norms and values - may be just fine in academic debate, but it is a disaster for American foreign policy. American values are universal.

Condoleezza Rice

PowerPoliticsAmericanViewYou

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.

Clifton Fadiman

HumorSense Of HumorUnderstandJoke

A common religion is not possible for India, but a recognition of a common basis for all religions, and the growth of a liberal, tolerant spirit in religious matters, are possible.

Annie Besant

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