Marie Bashkirtseff Quotes

#1. The expectation of an unpleasantness is more terrible than the thing itself.

Marie Bashkirtseff

#2. Life, that is Paris! Paris, that is life!

Marie Bashkirtseff

#3. I want to live faster, faster, faster! ... I fear that this desire to live always at high pressure is the presage of a short existence. Who knows?

Marie Bashkirtseff

#4. I will never love, for I should never be loved as I desire to be loved.

Marie Bashkirtseff

#5. France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything.

Adam Michnik

#6. The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me.

Patrick Stewart

#7. Nothing is ever so good or so bad in reality as it is in the anticipation.

Marie Bashkirtseff

#8. When one misses an opportunity one is apt to fancy that another will never present itself.

Marie Bashkirtseff

#9. Was there ever such stuff as great as part of Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you? - What? - Is there not sad stuff? What? - What?

George III

#10. One life would not suffice, mine especially. To touch everything and leave nothing after oneself! Ah! my God! I hope better than that. Ah! I am very cowardly, and under the blow of such a terror I am ready to believe in priests.

Marie Bashkirtseff

#11. To say that my grief will be eternal would be ridiculous - nothing is eternal.

Marie Bashkirtseff

#12. Art ... is as much a source of happiness for the beginner as for the master. One forgets everything in one's work ...

Marie Bashkirtseff

#13. There is, of course, a chicken-and-egg element here: does someone gravitate to the role of Eddie van Halen because he shares similar personality traits or did portraying Eddie Van Halen give rise to those qualities?

Steven Kurutz

#14. Let us love dogs; let us love only dogs! Man and cats are unworthy creatures.

Marie Bashkirtseff

#15. Animals are certainly more sophisticated than we used to think. And we shouldn't lump together animals as a group. Crows and chimps and dogs are all highly intelligent in very different ways.

Alison Gopnik

#16. Vectors never make the same mistake twice,That is why the warrior only risks his heart for something worthwhile.

Paulo Coelho

#17. I love what I do. If I had my time over again, I'd probably do it for nothing.

Ernie Harwell

#18. I was born to be a remarkable woman; it matters little in what way or how ... I shall be famous or I will die.

Marie Bashkirtseff

#19. I long to see everything, to know everything, to learn everything!.

Marie Bashkirtseff

#20. Time is the most terrible, the most discouraging, the most unconquerable of all obstacles, and one that may exist when no other does.

Marie Bashkirtseff

#21. Soul is as necessary in a painting as body.

Marie Bashkirtseff

#22. What am I? Nothing. What would I be? Everything.

Marie Bashkirtseff

#23. To live, to have so much ambition, to suffer, to cry, to fight and, at the end, forgetfulness ... as if I had never existed.

Marie Bashkirtseff

#24. They who see only what they wish to see in those around them are very fortunate.

Marie Bashkirtseff

#25. WI played a young Helena Bonham Carter in a BBC film called 'A Dark Adapted Eye,' and I thought she was a completely spellbinding person. Totally unmoved by other people's expectations, fashions or opinions. She's probably the coolest English actress there is. Incredibly idiosyncratic.

Honeysuckle Weeks

#26. When I die my death will be caused by indignation at the stupidity of human nature ...

Marie Bashkirtseff

#27. In the sometimes ridiculous action scenarios you're laughing out loud, and so the more committed and in fact the more highbrow the music is, the funnier it is.

Henry Jackman

#28. I am the most interesting book of all.

Marie Bashkirtseff

#29. Art consists precisely in making us admire old stories, charming us with them eternally, as Nature charms with her eternal sun, her ancient earth, and her men built all on the same pattern, and all animated by the same feelings ...

Marie Bashkirtseff

#30. Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally ...

Marie Bashkirtseff

#31. To a woman who knows her own mind men can only be a minor consideration.

Marie Bashkirtseff

#32. It is reasonable to ask who or what created the universe, but if the answer is God, then the question has merely been deflected to that of who created God.

Stephen Hawking