Emil Cioran Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
-
I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.
-
If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
-
We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.
-
People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.
-
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
-
What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
-
I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.
-
Beauty is not just physical.
-
The worst affected from corruption is the common man.
-
If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
-
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
-
I didn't intend to introduce food so early, but she became very interested at about 5 months, and I just gave her whatever sort of nutrient-rich food I had. Her first food was smoked trout.
-
By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.
-
People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.
-
It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners, people will like you.
-
I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
-
The beauty of the Democratic Party is in the mix.
-
They offered me that film before I did Frida and I said, no, I'm not capable of directing. Then after seeing Julie direct, I was inspired by it. She motivated me to do it, because we don't have role models as woman for directors.
-
90 percent of the records I make are spontaneous.
-
I had this dream in my head of, if I got hired by 'SNL, what that moment would be like. And I dreamed that I would, like, collapse on the sidewalk and cry to the heavens. I got this call, and it didn't happen naturally. But I did it anyway because I wanted to have that moment. So I did collapse.
-
So few people vote these days, and I think it's partly because they don't feel like the institution really means anything to them. If you want them to vote, give them opportunities to do something else other than vote, to help.
-
I was married to a dancer who had a dance company in New York City, and she toured.
-
I dream of wanting - and all I want seems to me worthless.
