Emil Cioran Quotes

Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.

Emil Cioran

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• Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Together
  • Control
  • Digital

• It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Time
  • Faith
  • Reason

• For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Music
  • Thinking

• Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.

  

  Yael Stone
  • People
  • Different
  • Together

• My daughter Mira's first media experience was with the first-generation iPad more than five years ago. Her speech therapist used this with her to encourage her to talk, as she was speech delayed. I watched as she immediately navigated the iPad naturally, with such ease.

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • Experience
  • Daughter
  • Therapist

• I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • Great
  • Family
  • America

• Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people.

  

  Larry Craig
  • People
  • Political
  • Flag

• Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• I don't like crazy names. I don't like them. I don't think it makes any sense. You have to think about the child and, as they get older, what they have to deal with. A lot of people do things as a fad, and they want to get some attention, but it's like, this is your child.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Attention
  • Crazy

• The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Age
  • Peace
  • Alone

• It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Live
  • Fight
  • Victory

• All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Art
  • Pain
  • Best

• I'm a man without a corporation.

  

  Paddy Chayefsky
  • Man
  • Without
  • Corporation

• Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Violence
  • Practice

• I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Find
  • Cleaning
  • Demeaning

• I'm a lucky guy and I'm happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Happy
  • Guy
  • Night

• I'm not a stone-thrower when it comes to Hillary Clinton and her emails and her server. I don't think there has been criminal intent on Hillary Clinton's part. I don't see an indictment.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Think
  • See
  • Intent

• In should be the duty of every soldier to reflect on the experiences of the past, in the endeavor to discover improvements, in his particular sphere of action, which are practicable in the immediate future.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Future
  • Past
  • Action

• I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I'm beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me. My story isn't pleasant, it's not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories; it tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Life
  • Story
  • Books

• Anyone who knows anything should know you cannot take a master track of a recording and write another song over the top of it. You just can't do that. You can call it a tribute or whatever you want to call it, but it's against the law. That's a problem with some of the younger generation, they don't understand the concept of intellectual property and copyright.

  

  Don Henley The Eagles
  • Song
  • Write
  • Track

• They should make new ways to better design buildings and books. The computer was the end of Swiss typography!

  

  Emil Ruder
  • Design
  • Books
  • Computer

• Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • History
  • Science
  • Poetry

• My fate is in the hands of almighty Allah. I will deliver to the Gambian people and if I have to rule this country for one billion years, I will, if Allah says so.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • People
  • Country
  • Hands

• Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Write
  • Books
  • Confide