Emil Cioran Quotes

The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperament of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.

Emil Cioran

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• The march of the human mind is slow.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Mind
  • March
  • Slow

• You can't write a screenplay if you've been doing a zero-hours contract. Which means that the people who write drama, the people who commission dramas, and the people who direct dramas all come from a small circle of society.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • People
  • Society
  • Small

• As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Google's traffic congestion maps.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • Defeated

• I was 24 when Samori was born. His mom was 23.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Mom
  • Born
  • I Was Born

• I think that teaching coaches are the norm now.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Think
  • Now
  • Coaches

• Fox News and their Republican collaborators are the enemy of America, ...the enemy of anybody who wants anything good for this country.

  

  Alan Grayson
  • Good
  • Country
  • America

• No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.

  

  Andre Breton
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • Feeling

• I don't take on a product unless I believe in it. I use everything that I sell.

  

  Billy Mays
  • Believe

• At a young age, it is hard to be different from the crowd. I want to encourage young girls that it is cool to be different. Young women should be pleased they have something unique and make the most of their talent.

  

  Bryony Shaw
  • Different
  • Women
  • Age

• Sometimes you really rely on the audience to have a good time playing live, and sometimes you could have zero people or a thousand, and you'd feel exactly the same.

  

  Kevin Parker Tame Impala
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• My family and I participate in 'Cycle for Survival.' it was started by a friend of my wife's who lost his wife to a rare form of cancer.

  

  Brian Krzanich
  • Family
  • Lost
  • Friend

• In 1940 I came across a record by Jimmy Yancey. I can't say how important that record is. From then on, all I wanted to do was play the blues.

  

  Alexis Korner
  • Important

• Social business lies in the spectrum of possibility between the traditional, profit-maximizing business, which directs little to no profit to doing good, and the traditional charity, which relies mostly on donations to sustain itself.

  

  Leila Janah
  • Good
  • Business
  • Lies

• I'm very conventional compared to my parents.

  

  Bryce Dallas Howard
  • Parents

• You, our youth of today, are among the most illustrious spirits to be born into mortality in any age of the world. Yours is a noble heritage and a wonderful opportunity.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • World
  • Age
  • Today

• Life is priceless even to an ant.

  

  Liu Xiaobo
  • Life
  • Priceless
  • Ant

• Fortunately for me, it's my most favorite drill, and that is finishing. However, from a young age, soccer players in this country are not taught how to properly finish, and I think you see that through the professional ranks, that we don't have that killer instinct of the forwards from other countries.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Country
  • Age
  • Professional

• My favorite thing about playing a vampire is the stunts. It's just a new, fun thing to do. Especially as a girl, being able to be all dolled up in heels and little outfits and be able to kick boys' butts, I think it's a really fun, make-believe world to play.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Up
  • World
  • Believe

• You know, a vampire book is not a book to be the vehicle for big themes and stuff, where sometimes when you're dealing with art or the life of Christ or the oeuvre of Shakespeare, you know, it's a little more ambitious.

  

  Christopher Moore
  • Life
  • Art
  • Book

• What is the future going to say about us now? What are our kids going to look at us and say, 'How could you not stop that person from getting into power? How could you not stop that environmental disaster that you saw coming a mile away?'

  

  Leslie Odom, Jr.
  • Kids
  • Power
  • Future

• The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperament of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Vampire
  • Temperament
  • Art Of Love