Marcel Proust Quotes

In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life.

Marcel Proust

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: July 10, 1871 - November 18, 1922

Topics

LifeLiveTimePracticeEarthAware

I'm so fond of abstract design in the style of Vanderbilt and David Hicks and that whole 1970s era. They took the 1930s and gave it a bit of technicolour.

Jenny Packham

StyleDesignAbstract1930sWhole

Generation after generation, there is this never-ending, contemptuous, condescending attitude to the next generation or the next way of thinking: music, art, politics, whatever. And I have never been like that.

Jean-Michel Jarre

AttitudeMusicArtPoliticsThinking

It's just as difficult to live in a self-made hell of privacy as it is to live in a self-made hell of publicity.

Michael Hutchence

LiveHellPrivacyDifficultJust

If you listen to the way I speak, I have a lot of rhythm, use a lot of accents. When I'm playing my instrument, that concept comes through very clearly.

Stefon Harris

SpeakYouWayListenRhythmClearly

To me, Christianity was so conservative and stuffy, but for me, it was just a relationship with God. The Church relationship was just so stuffy.

Sonny Sandoval

GodRelationshipMeChurchJust

There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical.

Robert Bourassa

WarCensorshipMoreActRadical

I'm not the only Labour MP who sent their child to public school but I'm the only one who's questioned about it.

Diane Abbott

SchoolChildOnlyPublic SchoolWho

For me, hip-hop has always been black superhero music.

Cheo Hodari Coker

MusicMeBlackHip-HopAlwaysBeen

The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game.

Boris Spassky

AttitudePeopleSocietyGamePlace

You either deny terrorists any acceptance in the international life, or you make your double standard policy work the way it has been working - 'I don't like that guy in this country, so we will be calling him a dictator and topple him. This guy in another country also dictatorial, but he's our dictator.'

Sergei Lavrov

LifeWorkAcceptanceYouCountry

I tend to believe, when you're in a relationship, if you don't fight, it's not a real relationship. You have to have arguments and tensions, otherwise I don't believe it.

Richard LaGravenese

RelationshipFightBelieveYouReal

I do small cameos here and there but nothing that requires more than a paragraph of talking, because I'm just an amateur. The movie is a whole different reality.

Richard Price

SmallRealityTalkingNothingMore

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