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Edmond de Goncourt Quotes

Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.

Edmond de Goncourt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Laughter Mind Sound Laughing Coins

My main source for faith-based stuff is mostly the Bible, and a childhood with a much, much higher-than-median exposure to theological thought.

Childhood Bible Thought Source Stuff

This is the first time in my life I've had hair this short. It's always been down to my waist. I can't hide behind my hair any more.

Melissa Joan Hart

Life Time Hair Short My Life Hide

Every so often you might have an outburst in the gallery. That's one of the most exciting things that happen because then you can say, 'Unless there's order we will call the Sergeant at Arms.' And that sounds really scary.

You Say Will Scary Happen Things

I want people to know that there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

Light People End Know Want Tunnel

God has positioned me just this way to be just like I am, to say what I say how I say it.

God I Am Me Say Way Just

Being Mormon is a big part of who I am, and I try very hard to live the right way, but I don't know that I'm an example. I hate to say, 'Yes, look at me. I'm a good example of being Mormon.' I want to be the best person I can be, so in that aspect, maybe I'm a good example.

Stephenie Meyer

Good Live Best Hate I Am Me

Hardly anyone liked R.E.M. who didn't like them way too much, so part of being an R.E.M. fan meant getting wildly overinvested and then feeling vaguely disappointed by whatever they did next.

Feeling Too Much Way Next Whatever

I hate to dance. The thought of having to dance terrifies me.

Hate Dance Me Thought Having

When I was a girl, my grandmother would take me during the holidays to see the windows at Saks and Rockefeller Center.

Michael Learned

Girl Me Holidays Windows Grandmother

I was always taught to be grateful, and so the question came early: What is there to be grateful for? Why is life supposed to be so good? That's still a question I try to answer all the time.

Life Good Time Grateful Early Why

For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.

Constitution Rock Star Portrait Rock

I took IMAX public back in the early '90s.

Douglas Trumbull

Back Early Public Took

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