Evaluate Quote by Alain de Botton

“He had forgotten how convincing the world could look, how sure of itself: its outlines and edges; it's gradations, recessions, protrusions; it's startling and…

— Gregory Maguire

After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent.

— Francoise Sagan

As actors, we are so privileged to do what we do and to give to the world and to choose the subject we want…

— Juliette Binoche

“When it comes to developing a worldview, we tend to face this false division: Either you are a realist who says the world is…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Modesty alone doesn’t prove a man a hero. But it’s incontrovertible that immodesty makes him a bore.”

— Kate Ross

“If man's capacity for the fantastic took up as much of his imagination as his capacity for cruelty, the worlds, seen and unseen, might…

— G. Willow Wilson

“There is A value In Viewing The World As A Play.”

— The PLAY OF CONCIOUSNESS

it is usually in better taste to praise an isolated action or a production of genius, than a man's character as a whole.

— Elizabeth Wordsworth

View the whole scene, with critic judgment scan, And then deny him merit if you can. Where he falls short, 'tis Nature's fault alone…

— Charles Churchill

“The Procrustean bed. . .suggests itself with dispiriting aptness as a metaphor for the Culture Wars, right down to the blandishments with which Procrustes…

— Anne Fadiman

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities superior, either in kind or degree, to those…

— Samuel Johnson

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree, to those…

— Samuel Johnson