Quotes About Combray

#1. Combray, we used often to invite him to our house.

Marcel Proust

#2. It should not be Illiers-Combray that we visit: a genuine homage to Proust would be to look at our world through his eyes, not look at his world through our eyes.

Alain De Botton

#3. If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

Orson Welles

#4. A lot of people don't know what they want or they want much less than they deserve.

Barbara De Angelis

#5. Jesus loved everyone, but he loved children most of all. Today we know that unborn children are the targets of destruction. We must thank our parents for wanting us, for loving us and for taking such good care of us.

Mother Teresa

#6. When under attack, it is necessary to evaluate the situation and to decide instantly upon a proper course of action, to be carried out immediately with all the force you can bring to bear. He who hesitates is indeed lost. Do not soliloquize. Do not delay. Be decisive.

Jeff Cooper

#7. Talent or skill wasn't how you recognized a genius. A genius was the person giving the world the eff-you salute while doing the impossible.

Rae Mariz

#8. The sun was shining on the sea,
Shining with all his might:
He did his very best to make
The billows smooth and bright
And this was odd, because it was
The middle of the night.

Lewis Carroll

#9. Fashion is not a government, is not political; and yet it mantles the world much the way religion does. It includes and enforces its own rules, liturgies, disciplines. It has its own territories, its own language, its own hierarchy.

Richard De Combray

#10. A lantern can give you light only when you light it

Munia Khan

#11. There has been no progress in 60,000 years in reducing the psychedelic experience to a known quantity. It is as terrifying, as awesome, as ecstatic, as irreducible to us as it was to them.

Terence McKenna

#12. When you get arrested it's in big letters. When you get acquitted it's in small letters.

Charles Barkley

#13. What makes art powerful is a flash of recognition, a frightening encounter with something familiar about the human condition.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#14. You might be addicted to Mah Jongg if... you're allowed only one carry-on and you choose your Mah Jongg bag!

Mary Anne Puleio