Emil Cioran Quotes

Even when nothing happens, everything seems too much for me. What can be said, then, in the presence of an event, any event?

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• When you - when someone dies in your family and you think you're over it, and then you wake up in the morning and it hits you, 'I won't ever see my brother again. I won't ever see my mom again.' And it just kind of hits you like that.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Up
  • Family
  • Mom

• If you come to my house, you won't see a wall of trophies or things like that. I'm sort of 'on to the next thing' all the time.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Time
  • House
  • You

• Well, I'm trilingual myself. I am, I know how to speak Spanish, English, obviously, and I speak pretty good Ebonics.

  

  Cam Newton
  • English
  • Spanish
  • Trilingual

• I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • Money
  • Mother
  • Parents

• I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on 'The Wonder Years' set spoke fluent French.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • School
  • Wonder
  • Lucky

• What we try to do in TSAW, which is Tasha Smith Actors Workshop, is to help the actor get to the core of who they really are and how they really feel. So, we may have them do a dump, where you just basically express everything that you feel that you have not been able to express, whether it's good, bad, or ugly.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Good
  • May
  • Bad

• I was born Roman, and I'll die Roman. I'll never leave this team or my city.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Team
  • Die
  • City

• Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • See
  • Relationships

• You can tell when someone is driven by labels. If something is couture, they think it's important and wear it and sometimes make a terrible fashion mistake. People are shocked that I know so little about designers.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • People
  • Important
  • Fashion

• I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Always
  • Two
  • Actress

• It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.

  

  Gabriele Nanni
  • God
  • Men
  • Power

• There's always a reaction based on fear. People assume if you're criticizing a decision to go to war, then you're saying something against the soldiers-which is not the case.

  

  Ed Harris
  • People
  • War
  • Fear

• I'm not somebody who is genetically gifted when it comes to facial hair.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Hair
  • Gifted
  • Genetically

• We were only there for five days and during that time Tom was a bit annoyed that the French were more interested in me and my schoolgirl outfit than him and his long scarf.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Time
  • Long
  • Me

• We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Shadow
  • Stand
  • Wherever

• We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards.

  

  A. E. Waite
  • Now
  • Evidence
  • Cards

• Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Writing
  • Day
  • Days

• Success makes you less intimidated by things.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Success
  • You
  • Things

• O eternal truth and true love and beloved eternity! You are my God; to you I sigh by day and by night. And when I first knew you, you raised me up so that I could see that there was something to see and that I still lacked the ability to see it. And you beat back the weakness of my sight, blazing upon me with your rays, and I trembled in love and in dread.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Up
  • God
  • Truth

• 'Power' is a funny thing. Maybe it's a show that draws people in because they are watching people do things they secretly wish they could do or know they could get away with.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • People
  • Power
  • Funny

• To a certain extent I suppose all actors are big kids.

  

  Dominic Cooper
  • Kids

• A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.

  

  John Berger

• The basic goal of labor will not change. It is - as it has always been, and I am sure always will be - to better the standards of life for all who work for wages and to seek decency and justice and dignity for all Americans.

  

  George Meany
  • Change
  • Americans
  • Standards

• Even when nothing happens, everything seems too much for me. What can be said, then, in the presence of an event, any event?

  

  Emil Cioran