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I am for the muscles. I would like to have a lot of muscles, because women like it. I'm for bodybuilding, but it's very exhausting. — Michel Houellebecq

They both sat in silence for the rest of the journey, as if conscious of having let each other down. — Michel Faber

If you know how to handle the verbs, you know how to handle the language. Everything else is just vocabulary. — Michel Thomas

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself. — Michel De Montaigne

God damn God and all His horrible filthy Creation. — Michel Faber

No one is exempt from talking nonsense; the misfortune is to do it solemnly — Michel De Montaigne

I myself am more ready to distort a fine saying in order to patch it on to me than to distort the thread of my argument to go in search of one. [A] — Michel De Montaigne

There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine. — Michel De Montaigne

The transition to a salaried workforce had doomed the nuclear family and led to the complete atomization of society, — Michel Houellebecq

There's a lot of madness going on out there. Artists can only be what they are, but the industry only goes with what they think people wanna hear. — Pras Michel

Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience. — Michel De Montaigne

Men live alongside one another like cattle; it is a miracle if once in a while they manage to share a bottle of booze. — Michel Houellebecq

The Haiti that has been waiting for help and not moving no longer exists. Enough handouts; we need hands up. Enough aid; we need trade. — Michel Martelly

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions. — Michel De Montaigne

Shared suffering, she'd found, was no guarantee of intimacy. — Michel Faber

The game is worthwhile in so far as we don't know what will be the end. — FOUCAULT MICHEL

I'm a loner and always have been. — Michel Faber

I think it's fair to say that Nina Simone was a prodigy. — Michel Martin

We have a problem when the same people who make the law get to decide whether or not they themselves have broken the law. — Michel Templet

I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

I like kids' work more than work by real artists any day. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

a child's disquiet is as potent as a damp fart. — Michel Faber

I absolutely hate the way the United States glorifies its military and its wars. Real heroes fight for peace. — Michel Templet

Vess Incorporated had simply dug them out of one hole and buried them in another — Michel Faber

Reason has so many forms that we do not know which to choose-Experiment has no fewer. — Michel De Montaigne

If we include hedonistic philosophy in hospitals, the lives of patients suffering from cancer would be much, much better. — Michel Onfray

I have done only two portraits: one of the artist Francesco Clemente and another of Andy Warhol. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

...men are as vulnerable to joy as they are to suffering. — Michel Bernanos

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others. — Michel De Montaigne

The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes. — Michel De Montaigne

Whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it. — Michel De Montaigne

Love binds, and it binds forever. Good binds while evil unravels. Separation is another word for evil; it is also another word for deceit. — Michel Houellebecq

In all of my work, I think I'm exploring the idea that we are aliens to each other, how there is a huge distance that separates us all. — Michel Faber

Proof, once again, that reality was not objective, but always waiting to be reshaped and redefined by one's attitude. — Michel Faber

It is fear that I am most afraid of. — Michel De Montaigne

All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me. — Michel De Montaigne

I quote others in order to better express myself. — Michel De Montaigne

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love. — Michel De Montaigne

All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate. — Michel De Montaigne

The mere will to live was clearly no match for the pains and aggravations that punctuate the life of the average Western man. — Michel Houellebecq

Death is not one of our social managements; it is a scene with one character. — Michel De Montaigne

In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word. — Michel De Montaigne

Report followeth not all goodness, except difficulty and rarity be joined thereto. — Michel De Montaigne

It's part of my job to maintain the emotional reality and the naturalism even when the atmosphere is contrived. — Michel Gondry

Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life. — Michel De Montaigne

Much, maybe too much, has been written about literature. — Michel Houellebecq

Donors need to know what their money is being used for. — Michel Martelly

People have a tendency to think I was part of Warhol's Factory - I never was. I've always been independent. — Michel Auder

All these gadgets, the phone and the computer, they expose the inside of your brain in a way that's bad. — Michel Gondry

No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted. — Michel De Montaigne

That old queer Nietzsche had it right: Christianity was, at the end of the day, a feminine religion. — Michel Houellebecq

I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice. — Michel De Montaigne

It seriously irks me when people mistake Ron Paul for a libertarian. The man is as much a libertarian as Barack Obama is a liberal. — Michel Templet

I would listen to something on the radio and try to tap out the melody, then the harmonies. — Michel Legrand

Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face. — Michel Foucault

We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face. — Michel De Montaigne

I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions. — Michel De Montaigne

It is in our relations with other people that we gain a sense of ourselves; it's that, pretty much, that makes relations with other people unbearable. — Michel Houellebecq

Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things! — Michel De Montaigne

MERCY. It was a word she'd rarely encountered — Michel Faber

Yet the special thing about literature, the major art form of a Western civilization now ending before our very eyes, is not hard to define. — Michel Houellebecq

As far as I am concerned, no road that would lead us to health is either arduous or expensive. — Michel De Montaigne

One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart. — Michel De Montaigne

Lost in the barrage of images and self-serving analysis are the economic and social causes of the conflict. — Michel Chossudovsky

Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman. — Michel De Montaigne

As I got older, I also found myself agreeing more with Nietzsche, as is no doubt inevitable once your plumbing starts to fail. — Michel Houellebecq

She did love Paul during certain hours of certain days. How many hours did you have to love someone to be in love? — Lincoln Michel

Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd. — Michel De Montaigne

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void. — Michel De Montaigne

If a FIFA World Cup tournament had been held every year between 1982 and 1986, France would have won two or three. — Michel Patini

I speak to the paper, as I speak to the first person I meet. — Michel De Montaigne

It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him. — Michel De Montaigne

There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions. — Michel De Montaigne

Only amnesiacs have no regrets. — Jean-Michel Guenassia

There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others. — Michel De Montaigne

People all over the world feed upon U.S. cinema and don't know about their own. — Michel Ocelot

Through all the years of my sad youth Huysmans remained a companion, a faithful friend; never once did I doubt him, — Michel Houellebecq

I don't even want to be president! — Michel Martelly

The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience. — Michel De Montaigne

The sage says that all that is under heaven incurs the same law and the same fate. — Michel De Montaigne

Grace has as much to say about endings as it does about beginnings. — Jen Pollock Michel

In love it is only the commencement that charms. I am not surprised that we find pleasure in frequently recommencing. — Michel, 14th Prince Of Ligne

If I need something, I just draw it, have a few friends make it move, and it exists. I enjoy this strange power. I try to be a good sorcerer, though. — Michel Ocelot

Haiti has changed a lot. — Michel Martelly

Glory consists of two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little a value upon others. — Michel De Montaigne

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out. — Michel De Montaigne

Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens. — Michel De Montaigne

I have a big problem with Islam. — Michel Onfray

A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian! — Michel De Montaigne

I think I have written the things I was put on Earth to write. — Michel Faber

Man in sooth is a marvellous, vain, fickle, and unstable subject. — Michel De Montaigne

A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant. — Michel De Montaigne

Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future. — Michel De Montaigne

It is a game before a product, a sport before a market, a show before a business. — Michel Patini

Whatever can be done another day can be done today. — Michel De Montaigne

Isserley walked along the path the generations of sheep-flocks had made, up the tiers of the hill. In her mind, she was already — Michel Faber

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the mind as the wish to forget it. — Michel De Montaigne

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul — Michel De Montaigne

Even in our deepest, most lasting friendships, we never speak as openly as when we face a blank page and address a reader we do not know. — Michel Houellebecq

The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines. — Michel Foucault