Quotes About Proustian

#1. The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you're grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten.

Mike Mills

#2. Fragrance takes you on a journey of time. You can walk down the street and pass someone and get taken back 20 years. It's very Proustian that way.

Daphne Guinness

#3. Memory and Habit are attributes of the Time cancer. They control the most simple Proustian episode, and an understanding of their mechanism must precede any particular analysis of their application.

Samuel Beckett

#4. I do not mean, of course, that we can always accurately express our conscious thoughts with Proustian accuracy. Consciousness overflows language: we perceive vastly more than we can describe.

Stanislas Dehaene

#5. It might be a Proustian slogan: n'allez pas trop vite. And an advantage of not going by too fast is that the world has a chance of becoming more interesting in the process.

Alain De Botton

#6. Pop music can get inside us and enter our memory bubbles. It provides those true Proustian moments, unlocking sensations, unlocking our imaginations. Music inspired me as a filmmaker.

Todd Haynes

#7. The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink.

Edward Abbey

#8. With the possible exception of grits, there's no food more Southern than greens, whose bitter smell while cooking down in salty fatback amid the jittery hiss of a pressure cooker is a Proustian madeleine for generations of black and white Southerners alike. The

Sela Ward

#9. My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.

Hamish Bowles

#10. I actually had a nickname as a player myself. When I played high school football in Texas, strong safety, they called me Choo Choo because they said I hit like a train.

Gabriel Luna

#11. The ordinary detective discovers from a ledger or a diary that a crime has been committed. We discover from a book of sonnets that a crime will be committed.

G.K. Chesterton

#12. Look around you. It's an honor to fight beside you. Today we choose to fight. For the freedom to fight on other days. So we remember what's worth fighting for.

Janet Morris

#13. There are different categories of madmen, and different types of asylums! I know absolutely nothing about the asylums that house the madman who thinks he is a space man. Would you believe that 90% of madmen are treated in outside clinics?

Stephen Richards

#14. We, the Poles, do not understand war as a symbol but as a real fight.

Wladyslaw Sikorski

#15. An anthropologist at Tulane has just come back from a field trip to New
Guinea with reports of a tribe so primitive that they have Tide but not
new Tide with lemon-fresh Borax.

David Letterman

#16. So many of my thoughts and feelings are shared by the English that England has turned into a second native land of the mind for me.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#17. She was one who wished to believe the human motives precede actions for she was (she had always been) a rational individual yet clearly there were times (was this one of those times?) when actions might precede motives and even render them useless.

Joyce Carol Oates

#18. The same sun which ripens my beans illumines at once a system of earths like ours. If I had remembered this it would have prevented some mistakes.

Henry David Thoreau

#19. It is only in our beautiful France that wholesale slaughter is done lawfully, in the name of liberty and of brotherly love

Emmuska Orczy

#20. As a rule, Americans are big on that word "choice" and some souls can be captured simply by dangling before the creature a continual, lifelong supply of things from which to choose.

Geoffrey Wood

#21. Work only can keep even kings respectable.

Albert Pike

#22. A madeleine moment - a sound, a scent can incant her presence ...

John Geddes

#23. Enlightenment is the unfolding of the divinity within.

Michael Sharp

#24. I love beautiful black-and-white movies - anything Bette Davis, especially 'Now', 'Voyager', 'Casablanca', 'Mildred Pierce'; anything by Orson Welles, Truffaut, or Godard; and 'Paper Moon' by Peter Bogdanovich.

Suzan-Lori Parks