Balsan Quotes

#1. Balthazar Balsan is not a self-portrait. If he was, I'd have made the character more flattering.

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

#2. Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

Marcel Proust

#3. The relevant questions now are: How do we move beyond coal? How do we bring new jobs to the coal fields and retrain coal miners for other work? How do we inspire entrepreneurialism and self-reliance in people whose lives have been dependent on the paternalistic coal industry?

Jeff Goodell

#4. "A meteor hits planet Earth" - that's a story idea but that doesn't give me any indication of what the character is.

Steven Soderbergh

#5. I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo - and I kept it all my life!

Agnes Varda

#6. I like to make the odd impromptu visit. It keeps management on their toes, wives in their place. You know. He shrugs, his mouth set in an arrogant line.

E.L. James

#7. I'm perfectly happy for my videos to be on YouTube, whether I'm getting paid for them or not. If they're on YouTube, people will see them. If for some reason my videos get taken down from YouTube, well, I apologize. If it was up to me they'd all be up there and they'd all be free.

Moby

#8. It is a melancholy fact that childhood, so short when compared with the average span of life, should exert such a strong and permanent influence on character that no amount of self-training afterwards can ever completely counter it.

Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan

#9. I shudder when relating it.

Virgil

#10. I'm 18 in this album. I'm not losing fans, and I'm not disrepecting women, but you reach the maturity of taking it to the next level with a girl. It was only necessary for me to have at least one song like that.

Chris Brown

#11. In nearly all the matters in which the Pan-German movement was wanting, the attitude of the Christian Social Party was correct and well-planned.

Adolf Hitler

#12. The sort of guardian you can hire is worth about as much as the sort of wife you can buy.

Robert A. Heinlein