Emil Cioran Quotes
Long before physics or psychology were born, pain disintegrated matter, and affliction the soul.
Quotes to Explore
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She's been on more laps than a napkin.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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I would love to do some theater.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities.
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I find Los Angeles to be a place of great physical beauty, in which you have the oceans and the mountains, and there's a vertical sense and a desert light that you can see forever.
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I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.
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Someone's career that I admire would have to be Justin Timberlake's because he started off on Disney and he made this huge film career and huge solo music career. I really respect him as an artist.
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I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists.
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Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do!
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Never put a sock in a toaster.
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There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.
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Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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Over periods of 10,000 years the distinctions between Western and Eastern and African cultures lose all meaning. Over a time span of 100,000 years we are all Africans. And over a time span of 300 million years we are all amphibians, waddling uncertainly out of dried-up ponds onto the alien and hostile land.
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When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
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If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.
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There's a tiredness of abstract intelligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of the body, nor does it worry you like the tiredness of knowledge and emotion. It's a weightiness of the conscience of the world, an inability of the soul to breathe.
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Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.
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Long before physics or psychology were born, pain disintegrated matter, and affliction the soul.
