Emil Cioran Quotes
Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
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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.
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Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.
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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.
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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.
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Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people.
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My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but exciting.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
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All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.
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I'm a man without a corporation.
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Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.
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I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Whenever I'm giving talks, I always ask people to think of the most obscure questions because I enjoy those the most. I always get the same questions: Why does Pickwick say "plock" and will there be a movie? I like the really obscure questions because there's so much in the books. There are tons and tons of references and I like when people get the little ones and ask me about them. It's good for the audience [and also] they realize there's more there.
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Koreans stuck to their traditional way of life without knowing what was going on outside the country. We were like frogs in a well.
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How many on their deathbeds wished they'd spent more time at the office - or watching TV? The answer is, No one.
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Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.
