Emil Cioran Quotes

Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation.

Emil Cioran

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• I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • People
  • Piano
  • Tour

• I was raised Catholic, and my grandmother taught me to stay. As a teenager, I thought if you went on a date, you should stay for a couple of years. I didn't realize that if he wasn't your cup of tea, you got to leave.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Couple
  • Thought
  • Teenager

• I became a clown when these docs came to the house in Berkeley and asked me to come cheer up kids. I'd just had my third spinal fusion and I was looking for something to take my mind off the pain I was in.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Mind
  • Kids
  • Cheer

• The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Time
  • Important
  • American

• I take a lot of pictures.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Take
  • Pictures
  • Lot

• We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live.

  

  Abdoulaye Wade
  • Live
  • Wish
  • Young

• Quickly, after I landed in England, I found out ways to get scholarships. England turned out to be a very encouraging place for me.

  

  Zhang Xin
  • Place
  • England
  • Encouraging

• No one is going to remember a second-place team.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Remember
  • Team
  • Going

• I'm a very political person, and I think things through clearly, even when I was 18 years old.

  

  Iman
  • Think
  • Political
  • Years

• My character, Rick Spleen, is a what-if version of me, really, where nothing did quite turn out right and everything else is still around the corner.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Character
  • Me
  • Turn

• I'll make the right decision, whichever one it is. I have to be 100 percent, not 95 or 99.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Decision
  • Right
  • Percent

• I always believed in my characters. I lived them.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Always
  • Characters
  • Lived

• I have this view that losing weight is easy, keeping it off is hard because keeping it off is the discipline.

  

  Barry O'Farrell
  • Discipline
  • Losing
  • View

• There were theoretical elements in the subjection of women and it is not possible to avoid the conclusion that a large contribution was made to them by the Church. In part this was a matter of its hostile stance towards sexuality.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Women
  • Church
  • Possible

• I'm fortunate enough to be living my dreams and a lot of other peoples' dreams.

  

  Wale
  • Enough
  • Dreams
  • Living

• They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Great
  • Sad
  • They Say

• I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because you're a Democrat. Sometimes that's good, obviously, and sometimes that's obviously bad. But in the news business, there's no such thing as Republican or Democratic news. News is news.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Good
  • Business
  • Bad

• There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Moral
  • Sacrifice
  • Authority

• I'm just attracted to good material and great characters and that can come in any form, whether it's television or film or a theatre piece.

  

  Laurie Holden
  • Good
  • Great
  • Theatre

• As I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County school system, I could not help receiving the impression that I was being cheated out of something. Out of what I knew not, yet I did not believe that twelve years of unrelieved boredom was exactly what the state had in mind for me.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • School

• I've been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning. Most of it's just whining, but every so often there'll be something I can use later: a joke, a description, a quote. It's an invaluable aid when it comes to winning arguments. 'That's not what you said on February 3, 1996,' I'll say to someone.

  

  David Sedaris
  • Morning
  • Winning
  • February

• Paper after paper, study after study, have shown that chairs give us back problems because they shorten our hip flexors, give us weak backs, of course it make us sedentary. We take years off our lives probably by sitting in chairs, but we like them because they're comfortable. You go to an African village, you find me a chair with a back. That's a rare thing out there.

  

  Daniel Lieberman
  • Giving
  • Problem
  • Pain

• Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation.

  

  Emil Cioran