KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Quotes for topic: Am


Share this page on

Showing 361-370 of 6921 quotes in the topic Am

There's a certain kind of insular, old-fashioned, upper-class Britishness that gives me the spooks. I am sure that comes from a boarding-school trauma.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Am Certain Gives Kind Me Old-Fashioned Sure Trauma Upper-Class I Am

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to the formal aspects of their work.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Always Am Aspects Attention Boundaries Conscious Formal How Little Many Me Non-Fiction Pay Stretch Surprised Trying Work Writers Writing I Am

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Also Am Happy Insist Interesting Terrible Thinkers Writers I Am I Am Happy

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I am always anxious.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Always Am Anxious I Am

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I am not a foodie, thank goodness. I will eat pretty much anything. A lot of my friends are getting incredibly fussy about food and I see it as a bit of an affliction.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: About Affliction Am Anything Bit Eat Food Friends Fussy Getting Goodness Incredibly Lot Much Pretty Pretty Much Anything See Thank Thank Goodness Will I Am I See

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I always feel that I am writing for somebody who is bright but impatient. Someone who doesn't have unlimited time. That is my sense of the reader. So I have got to get to the point.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Always Am Bright Feel Get Got Impatient Point Reader Sense Somebody Someone Time Unlimited Who Writing I Am

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


As for despair, it comes about when I have been a fool and hate myself and despair of my personality. I am prone to gloom, but not depression as such.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: About Am Been Depression Despair Fool Gloom Hate Myself Personality Prone I Am

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I am a very aesthetic person.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Aesthetic Am Person Very I Am

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I'm not an academic philosopher, and don't agree with the way the universities approach the subject. I'm a philosopher only in the very loose sense of someone interested in wisdom and well-being attained through reason. But I'm as interested in psychoanalysis and art as I am in philosophy.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Academic Agree Am Approach Art Attained Interested Loose Only Philosopher Philosophy Psychoanalysis Reason Sense Someone Subject Through Universities Very Way Well-Being Wisdom I Am

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


In France, I am the fifth artisan to produce his own chocolate, and the others have been doing it for a long time.

~Alain Ducasse

Topics: Am Artisan Been Chocolate Doing Fifth France His Long Long Time Others Own Produce Time I Am

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Popular Authors

Rodney Dangerfield John Dewey Thomas Hobbes Isaac Newton Francois De La Rochefoucauld J. R. R. Tolkien Mike Tyson Robin Williams

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1940 - Bruce Lee

1942 - Jimi Hendrix

1857 - Charles Scott Sherrington

1874 - Chaim Weizmann

1874 - Charles A. Beard

1877 - Katharine Anthony

1903 - Lars Onsager

1907 - L. Sprague De Camp

1909 - James Agee

1912 - David Merrick

Birthdays on November 27th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Brainy Communication Dating Family Food Hope Relationship Technology