Quotes About Marcel

If there was ever a bigger pansy than my father, it was Marcel Proust.

The manager of the enterprise, a foxy-nose with a serried gray marcel that mounted like a linotype keyboard, was the soul of courtesy.

The one thing we should address is how design can play a role in the psychological durability of objects, to think of how objects can be engineered in a way that they will be good over time.

It is impossible to exaggerate how much better the formula es denkt in mir is than cogito ergo sum, which lets us in for pure subjectivism.

A mystery is a problem that encroaches upon itself because the questioner becomes the object of the question. Getting to Mars is a problem. Falling in love is a mystery.

Marcel, I know I'm an old woman and as you say a bit of an actress. But please go on pretending. As long as we pretend we escape. Pretend that I love you like a mistress. Pretend that you love me like a lover. Pretend that I would die for you and that you would die for me.' I read the message again now; I thought it movingly phrased . . . And he had died for her, so perhaps he was no comédien after all. Death is a proof of sincerity.

Marcel dropped a white plastic bag onto the table. It bounced slightly on landing. "Muktuk," Nirlungayuk said approvingly. It was a piece of narwhal skin, uncooked.

Bullshit. I don't know how, but somehow you followed us." "I will admit, Agent Harvath, that when you logged on to the web site I gave you for the surveillance photos of Marcel

Marcel Breuer's armchair, with its horsehair fabric stretched taut on an armature of tubular chrome, is one of the Bauhaus designs that has remained a classic.

I was very nervous at the beginning of Hotel du Nord.

If your choice enters into it, then taste is involved - bad taste, good taste, uninteresting taste. Taste is the enemy of art, A-R-T.

I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.

Marcel Delamare asked the question with enormous and unconcealed patience.

"In France," Marcel said with wintry dignity, "accidents occur in the bedroom, not the kitchen."

I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.

I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position. (On giving up art to play chess)

The only true paradise is paradise lost

the idea that 'Life' contains situations more interesting and more romantic than all the romances ever written.

A work in which there are theories is like an object upon which the price is marked.

One wants to be understood because one wants to be loved, and one wants to be loved because one loves.

until it had acquired the strength to create in my mind a fresh example of absolute, unproductive beauty...

The satisfaction an imbecile derives from having right on his side and being certain of success is especially irritating.

The consolation I drew from her words may even have had, much later, far-reaching and grave consequences for me,

This at once made up a gathering of several half-worthy individuals; and if a small patch of garden with a few trees,