Emil Cioran Quotes

We say: he has no talent, only tone. But tone is precisely what cannot be invented-we’re born with it. Tone is an inherited grace, the privilege some of us have of making our organic pulsations felt-tone is more than talent, it is its essence.

Emil Cioran

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• My style is very inspired by both my parents, so we all have the same taste.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Parents
  • Style
  • Inspired

• Tell the truth.

  

  Ian Hunter
  • Truth
  • Tell

• The connection I make with being young and growing up is, like, the feeling of not being crushed by the world. Having an idea, thinking you can do it.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Up
  • World
  • Thinking

• No one should be left to suffer alone.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Alone
  • Should
  • Suffer

• I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Life
  • Work
  • Father

• I voted for you during your last election.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • You
  • Election
  • Last

• I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to, you're writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it's just the journey.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Up
  • Good
  • Writing

• I work out, I go to pilates, I walk and I eat everything I can get my hands on.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Work
  • Hands
  • Walk

• Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.

  

  Randy Newman
  • World
  • God
  • Live

• The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.

  

  Edith Stein
  • God
  • Heart
  • Church

• Be yourself. And every person is unique.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Unique
  • Yourself
  • Be Yourself

• If people are talking about your movie and they're like, 'Yeah, it was ok' - that's the last reaction I would want! I would rather people would say, 'Oh, I hated it!' or 'I loved it!' rather than 'Oh, it's ok.'

  

  Caity Lotz
  • People
  • Movie
  • Want

• For the Nugent family, fast food is a running herbivore.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Family
  • Food
  • Running

• I've been a huge fan of Chris Martin forever; it'd be awesome to work with him. He's really kind, and he's been really encouraging when we've met.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Work
  • Kind
  • Forever

• After the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle to fix the things that had gone wrong.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Time
  • Space
  • Safety

• I'm not very happy idle.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Happy
  • Very
  • Idle

• I can say with absolute certainty that I will run for one of two offices: my state Senate seat or for the governor. I'm still trying to decide, but I do think people are ready for a change from the partisan, very fractured leadership we have in Texas.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • People
  • Trying
  • Change

• If you're playing a good guy, you show some darkness. If you're playing a dark guy, you show something different, like humor, that will mix it up and hopefully surpass the audience's expectations. What I'm battling all the time is complacency in the audience. I try to bring a little mystery to what might happen because that engages people more.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• We must shine with hope, stained glass windows that shape light into icons, glow like lanterns borne before a procession. Who can bear hope back into the world but us...

  

  Marge Piercy
  • World
  • Hope
  • Light

• I regret to say that my hand did, in fact, have an improper relationship with Chelsea Clinton. The incident represents a profound lapse of judgment for which my hand takes sole responsibility.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Relationship
  • Responsibility
  • Judgment

• Our houses are hosts to these creatures which are ultra-tiny (so small they were only first discovered in 1965) which live in human carpets, in our beds, on our food, floating in the air, in fact, they are omnipresent.

  

  David Bodanis
  • House
  • Creatures
  • Carpet

• The sounds of people drowning are something that I can not describe to you, and neither can anyone else. It's the most dreadful sound and there is a terrible silence that follows it.

  

  Eva Hart
  • Silence
  • Describe
  • Drowning

• We say: he has no talent, only tone. But tone is precisely what cannot be invented-we’re born with it. Tone is an inherited grace, the privilege some of us have of making our organic pulsations felt-tone is more than talent, it is its essence.

  

  Emil Cioran