Emil Cioran Quotes
I want to proclaim a truth that would forever exile me from among the living. I know only the conditions but not the words that would allow me to formulate it.
Quotes to Explore
-
If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
-
You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
-
Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
-
Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
-
It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
-
The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
-
There's something about wearing clothes that your great-grandmother might have thought were nice that makes you look older.
-
I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.
-
Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
-
Everybody wants to defeat the defending champs.
-
I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry periodical, and as a teenager I was introduced to Denise Levertov, who was an influence.
-
Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
-
I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'.
-
The chi of a room is important to me. If I walk into a hotel room and it doesn't feel right, I ask to change.
-
My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucille. I squeeze my eyes and open my mouth, raise my eyebrows, cock my head and God knows what else. I look like I'm in torture, when in truth, I'm in ecstasy. I don't do it for show. Every fiber of my being is tingling.
-
I don't have a lot of skills, but one thing I can do is, I can compartmentalize. I can make that a little world that I can go back to, so I can be a waitress, or I can be a teacher, and then go and work on my book.
-
In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.
-
You can't hold up a blog; you can hold up a magazine.
-
I don't like being lied to, so I only lie about the stupid things. White lies, basically.
-
'Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas every day, we read novels by the millions, and buy records by the billions. 'We the people' affect the making and quality of most of our culture, but not our art.'
-
I don't know what we did without Velcro in the American theater. It's a miracle substance! People had long intermissions, probably.
-
Any acting is a stretch of the imagination. That's your job. Acting is truth in imaginary circumstances. Acting with green screen or a motion capture stage, you're striving for absolute truth in absolutely imaginary circumstances.
-
I want to proclaim a truth that would forever exile me from among the living. I know only the conditions but not the words that would allow me to formulate it.
