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Funny Quotes by Alain de Botton
- Never, ever become a writer. It's a nightmare.
- Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.
- Our sense of what is valuable will hence be radically distorted if we must perpetually condemn as tedious everything we lack, simply because we lack…
- What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?
- What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their…
- Writing a book has about it some of the anxiety of telling a joke and having to wait several years to know whether or not…
- Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.
- I was foreign and Jewish, with a funny name, and was very small and hated sport, a real problem at an English prep school. So…
- Le Corbusier is an outstanding writer. His ideas achieved their impact in large measure because he could write so convincingly. His style is utterly clear,…
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- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable. — J. J. Abrams
- I love recording music. — J. J. Abrams
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
- I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten. — J. J. Abrams
- I also have this incredible love for women. — Kevyn Aucoin