Romain Quotes & Sayings

How often', he said,'does a man ruin his disciples by remaining always with them. — Romain Rolland

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him. — Romain Gary

The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there. — Romain Gary

Before I film a movie, I look at how the character will move and walk. — Romain Duris

You desire a popular art? Begin by having a "people" whose minds are liberated, a people not crushed by misery and ceaseless toil, not brutalized by every superstition and every fanaticism, a people of itself, and victor in the fight that is being waged today. — Romain Rolland

The true Vedantic spirit does not start out with a system of preconceived ideas. It possesses absolute liberty and unrivalled courage among religions with regard to the facts to be observed and the diverse hypotheses it has laid down for their coordination. Never having been hampered by a priestly order, each man has been entirely free to search wherever he pleased for the spiritual explanation of the spectacle of the universe. — Romain Rolland

Until you've got your mouth full of cocaine, you don't know what kissing is. One kiss goes on from phase to phase like one of those novels by Balzac and Zola and Romain Rolland and D. H. Lawrence and those chaps. And you never get tire. You're on fourth speed all the time, and the engine purrs like a kitten, a big white kitten with the stars in its whiskers. — Aleister Crowley

You can't hide and pretend to be someone you're not,Pearl. You can never belong to anyone else."
She set her jaw, refusing to flinch or look away. "Anyone besides myself, you mean? That's true. Though it was always true. — Theresa Romain

Monaco is quite a specialist track, and it is very difficult to say if a car will be suited to it or not. It's bumpy on the straights, and it's a very low-grip surface. All these things mean that you never know what to expect. — Romain Grosjean

why are some people born here and others there? why do some have everything and others nothing? why do some live while others- always the same ones- have the right only to shut up and die? — Romain Puertolas

They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior — Romain Gary

A writer's subconscious is one of the filthiest places there are: as a matter of fact, you can find the whole world there. — Romain Gary

Let me help," said Benedict. "Let me do this for you."

He took the spade from her hand, allowing her to step back and stand beside Maggie. To slip an arm around her crying daughter.

With smooth, slow movements, he turned over the earth. Quietly, doing what needed to be done with a graciousness that meant everything.

And that was when she realized: she had fallen in love with him. — Theresa Romain

You can gain a lot of time from an aggressive strategy, but you can lose a lot of time from an aggressive strategy. — Romain Grosjean

He gave up. He'd been feeling like giving up for a long, long time. I guess it's maturity, they say it always gets you in the end. I don't seem to have any more principles left, so it's got to be maturity ... A broken man, I guess that's what you become, the moment you are no longer a kid. — Romain Gary

There is only one necessary condition for the emergence of a new theatre, that the stage and auditorium should be open to the masses, should be able to contain a people and the actions of a people. — Romain Rolland

Let us seek truth everywhere;
let us cull it wherever we can find its blossom
or its SEED. Having Found the seed,
let us scatter it to the winds of heaven.
Where ever it may blow, it will germinate.
There is no lack in this wide universe of souls
that will form the new ground. — Romain Rolland

Passion is like genius: a miracle. — Romain Rolland

I kept my door more securely locked than ever and passed the time with foreign novels. Since Balzac was Luo's favourite I put him to one side, and with the ardour and earnestness of my eighteen years I fell in love with one author after another: Flaubert, Gogol, Melville, and even Romain Rolland. — Dai Sijie

Thousands of animals (now billions) are butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. It cries vengeance upon all the human race. — Romain Rolland

I think it's harder to learn a language without having a goal. — Romain Duris

She did not know what sort of person he was. But she thought---she hoped---that he would hold her trust as the fragile, precious thing it was. — Theresa Romain

One makes mistakes; that is life.
But it is never a mistake to have loved. — Romain Rolland

The friend who understands you, creates you. — Romain Rolland

The more we create, the more we love and lose those whom we love, the more we escape from death. With every new work we round and finish, we escape into the work we have created, the soul we have loved, the soul that has left us. When all is told, Rome is not in Rome; the best of a man lies outside himself. — Romain Rolland

The Trevor Romain Foundation is a project that I am most proud to be a part of. They work with the USO and help provide support and comfort to military children and their families. — Ryan Lee

Most men are essentially dead by thirty. — Romain Rolland

To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime. — Romain Rolland

The theatre, like the fresco, is art fitted to its place. And therefore it is above all else the human art, the living art. — Romain Rolland

I didn't think that and I didn't verbalize that to myself or within meetings that we ever had, but we wanted to make a hard-nosed, gritty, realistic spy thriller. Roger talked about using lenses. He shot hi-def, but using anamorphic lenses that he'd found from this warehouse. He was so thrilled with that. Him and Romain [Lacourbas] were just like kids in a toy store with their lenses. — Pierce Brosnan

19.Rxc7N. There comes the novetly! [sic] Actually, the impression I had is that both players had more or less analyzed the rest of the game. — Romain Edouard

Islands of memory begin to rise above the river of his life. At first they are little uncharted islands, rocks just peeping above the surface of the waters. Round about them and behind in the twilight of the dawn stretches the great untroubled sheet of water; then new islands, touched to gold by the sun. — Romain Rolland

I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so. — Romain Rolland

A limited number of types,good and bad serve for all ages. — Romain Rolland

Everyone, deep down within, carries a small cemetery of those he has loved. — Romain Rolland

I think I am disciplined when I need to be, and relax when I can. — Romain Grosjean

I sat day after day in my little room, waiting for inspiration to visit me, trying to invent a pseudonym that would express, in a combination of noble and striking sounds, our dream of artistic achievement, a pen name grand enough to compensate for my own feeling of insecurity and helplessness at the idea of everything my mother expected from me. — Romain Gary

Theatre supposes lives that are poor and agitated, a people searching in dreams for a refuge from thought. If we were happier and freer we should not feel hungry for theatre ... A people that is happy and free has need of festivities more than of theatres; it will always see in itself the finest spectacle. — Romain Rolland

The diplomatic kids had a hectic sort of life, being constantly thrown from one end of the world to the other and always playing tennis, no matter who was being machine-gunned in the streets, you were always extraterritorial, history was not permitted to touch you, it was only buzzing around your tennis court in a bloody sort of way. You were so well protected that you went to pieces. Diplomatic immunity could do very strange things to you, it was like weightlessness. You had to remind yourself constantly that you actually existed, and you were not supposed to identify yourself too much with the suffering of whatever country you were posted to. But then, who needs reality anyway? — Romain Gary

Most people think I am very nice; they think I'm their friend, which is lucky, but it means you're never allowed to be in a bad mood. They take it personally. The worst is when you're on holiday with your family. — Romain Duris

I like to smile a lot before going in the car. I make jokes, even on the grid, and then I can still manage to focus when it counts. — Romain Grosjean

Take possession of the air, submit the elements, penetrate the last redoubts of nature, make space retreat, make death retreat. — Romain Rolland

If there is one place on the face of the earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.For more than 30 centuries, the tree of vision, with all its thousand branches and their millions of twigs, has sprung from this torrid land, the burning womb of the Gods. It renews itself tirelessly showing no signs of decay. — Romain Rolland

I know more English than Spanish, but I'm always a little embarrassed. — Romain Duris

Literature is greater than any of us, dammit. — Romain Gary

When nothing hampers action, the soul has fewer reasons for action. — Romain Rolland

I wasn't sure I wanted to be an actor. — Romain Duris

I did almost every job in the bank. It was real life, waking up in the morning, putting on a suit and tie and then having to go to work. — Romain Grosjean

The worst nightmare would be not to achieve what I know I'm capable of. — Romain Grosjean

Singapore is a pretty special race with it being held at night; it makes a great show for the fans. — Romain Grosjean

I like running. I am lucky for that; I don't find it hard. I like it as much as relaxing, actually. I am very focused on driving, and I don't like to party too much; that's just who I am. — Romain Grosjean

I usually sleep ten to eight hours per night. I sometimes also have a nap in the afternoon. — Romain Grosjean

Religious faith in the case of the Hindus has never been allowed to run counter to scientific laws, moreover the former is never made a condition for the knowledge they teach, but there are always scrupulously careful to take into consideration the possibility that by reason both the agnostic and atheist may attain truth in their own way. Such tolerance may be surprising to religious believers in the West, but it is an integral part of Vedantic belief. — Romain Rolland

My wife is used to Formula One, and she understands the life. — Romain Grosjean

Let us return to our eagle's nest in the Himalayas. It is waiting for us, for it is ours, eaglets of Europe, we need not renounce any part of our real nature ... whence we formerly took our flight. — Romain Rolland

There is no joy other than the joy of creating. There is no man who is truly alive other than one who is creating. All others are just shadows on the earth with nothing to do with being alive. The joy of living, whether it is love or action, is the joy of creating. — Romain Rolland

Gari in Russian means "burn!" ... I want to test myself, a trial by fire, so that my I is burned off. — Romain Gary

Everything is music for the born musician. — Romain Rolland

He wanted Charlotte's happiness more than his own. But how much greater would his own be if they were together? Somehow, sometime---maybe when she flirted with him over sour ale, maybe when she bandaged his arm---she had come to rest upon his heart.
Somehow, he had come to love her. — Theresa Romain

Islam calls that 'the roots of heaven' and to the Mexican Indians it is the 'tree of life'
the thing that makes both of them fall on their knees and raise their eyes and beat their tormented breasts. [ ... ] Our needs
for justice, for freedom and dignity
are roots of heaven that are deeply embedded in our hearts, but of heaven itself men know nothing but the gripping roots ... — Romain Gary

He flicked his fingers out, just a whisper of a touch against the back of her hand. "You are brave, Miss Perry."
"I am what I have had to be, Mr. Frost." Her hand turned beneath his, and for a second they were palm against palm. "As are you. — Theresa Romain

You want to be a hero. That is why you do such silly things. — Romain Rolland

As a driver, you want to race every lap possible, especially when you've got a good car. — Romain Grosjean

I don't consider myself to be definite, but in waiting position and eventual appearance — Romain Gary

Love of my country does not demand that I shall hate and slay those noble and faithful souls who also love theirs. — Romain Rolland

If there is something that opens horizons, it is precisely ignorance. — Romain Gary

Your generation is suffering from what for lack of a better word I shall call over-debunk. There was a lot of debunking that had to be done, of course. Bigotry, militarism, nationalism, religious intolerance, hypocrisy, phonyness, all sorts of dangerous, ready-made, artificially preserved false values. But your generation and the generation before yours went too far with their debunking job. You went overboard. Over-debunk, that's what you did. It's moral overkill. It's like those insecticides Rachel Carson speaks of in her book, that poison everything, and kill all the nice, useful bugs as well as the bad ones, and in the end poison human beings as well. In the end, it poisons life itself, the very air we breathe. That's what you did, morally and intellectually speaking. Yours is a silent spring. You have overprotected yourselves. You are all no more than twenty, twenty-two years old, but yours is a silent spring, I'm telling you. Nothing sings for you any more. — Romain Gary

A hero is a man who does what he can. The others do not do it. — Romain Rolland

If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself. — Romain Rolland

Montreal is different from Monaco, as there are some long straights and big braking moments. — Romain Grosjean

No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books, either to discover or to control himself. — Romain Rolland

History furnishes to politics all the arguments that it needs, for the chosen cause. — Romain Rolland

An unbearable reality, combined with the impossibility to change it, tends to lead to abstractions for abstraction's sake, and unreality becomes more realistic than reality itself, more true, more convincing, simply because it looks at you with the eyes of justice. — Romain Gary

It is not peace that I seek, but life. — Romain Rolland

An English summer's day is wonderful, but sometimes you have to look hard to find one! — Romain Grosjean

Any place could be a cage. And maybe, with the right person, any place could be a home. — Theresa Romain

Every man, every art, has its hypocrisy. The world is fed with little and many lies. — Romain Rolland

There is only one heroism in the world: to see the world as it is, and to love it. — Romain Rolland

Our regular fitness programme means that the race lasting longer than others should not be a problem, but something you have to prepare for in Singapore is ensuring you always keep well-hydrated, as the heat and humidity can easily dehydrate you. — Romain Grosjean

E was simply a man who had gone even further into loneliness than others - and that's a real exploit, by the way; where breaking records in loneliness is concerned, we're all champions in the field ... he continually repeats: dogs are not enough anymore. People feel so damned lonely, they need company, they need something bigger, stronger, to lean on, something that can really stand up to it all. Dogs aren't enough; what we need is elephants ... — Romain Gary

The public will only stand genius in infintesimal doses,sprinkled with mannerisms and fashionable literature ... A fashionable genius!Doesn't that make you laugh?..what a waste of power! — Romain Rolland

The greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain, as a telegraphic message engraves itself on the ticker-tape, but the one whose vital impact opens up other viewpoints, and from writer to reader spreads the fire that is fed by the various essences, until it becomes a vast conflagration leaping from forest to forest. — Romain Rolland

Every track has its challenges, but Suzuka is a continuous test of a driver's skills, and I think that's what makes it so beautiful to drive. — Romain Grosjean

Since when one has started dreaming, there were so many cries for help and so many bottles thrown into the sea, that it is amazing we still can see the sea when we should see only bottles. — Romain Gary

Humor is a passive form of terrorism, of resistance, and of pseudo-aggression that has less to do with changing the world than with mental hygiene. It is self-therapy... — Romain Gary

The only possible answers are questions. Real Vikings are questions. The answers are what the Vikings chanted during the voyage to keep their spirits up. — Romain Gary

Any man who is really a man must learn to be alone in the midst of others, to think alone for others, and, if necessary, against others. — Romain Rolland

...the most sacred right of a person is to refuse o be manipulated, handled, cheated, and then kicked in the ass---. — Romain Gary

Under adrenalin, at the end of the race, we can say things that we really don't think. — Romain Grosjean

Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow. — Romain Rolland

It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails. — Romain Rolland

I like Hockenheim because I've raced there quite a few times. In fact, one of my first single seater races was there in Formula Renault 1.6 in 2003. — Romain Grosjean

... Parrying, puckishness, and a touch of profanity. — Theresa Romain

All the same I keep on looking for someone incomprehensible who won't understand me either, because I have a terrible thirst for brotherhood — Romain Gary

Awful fondness you people have for knives. It's really not right. — Theresa Romain

I always wake up kind of early - well, early for me, which is about 8 A.M. — Romain Grosjean

I have a great love for cuisine, so I'm always interested in local food, and there are so many interesting dishes, spices and ingredients in India. — Romain Grosjean

When a war is won, it's the losers, not the winners, who are liberated. — Romain Gary

Monaco is a very special event in its own right, and the atmosphere is quite crazy! As a driver, you have to stay calm and relaxed and try to do your job. — Romain Grosjean

All these young millionaires were anarchists, of course: when a man possesses everything it is the supreme luxury for him to deny society: for in that way he can evade his responsibilities — Romain Rolland