Emil Cioran Quotes

The wrinkles of a nation are as visible as those of an individual.

Emil Cioran

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• The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Women
  • Job
  • Pretty

• I don't believe in strong-arming people.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • People
  • Believe
  • Strong

• I feel that 'Tokoyo Drift' blew people away because not many people had high expectations for it.

  

  Nathalie Kelley
  • People
  • High
  • Feel

• The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • True
  • Success
  • Promise

• We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Devil
  • September
  • Friday

• Casting my fate to the heavens, quite literally, I decided to go wireless. Completely wireless. All wireless, all the time, everywhere.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Time
  • Fate
  • Go

• Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Family
  • Mental Illness

• I used to get 2000 as pocket money, and I was being offered a car and an opportunity to make lakhs, so I said a yes. I was a kid and got homesick over my 40-day schedule in Bangalore and decided that I would only do films in the South if they were 10-day roles.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Money
  • Opportunity
  • Car

• Mother Nature made me the way I am, and I should be happy.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • Happy
  • Mother
  • Nature

• Let's face it. I'm an open book.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Book
  • Face
  • Open

• Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • People
  • Game
  • Football

• Matt Braunger really makes me laugh; I like that guy a lot.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Like

• Love is always being given where it is not required.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Love
  • Always
  • Given

• I've never taken myself too seriously.

  

  Omar Epps
  • Myself
  • Taken
  • Never

• Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Good
  • Worst
  • Good Taste

• I've been playing piano my whole life, but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made, really. Try to imagine if you'd loved paintings your whole life but had never painted one. My aspiration now is just to understand.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Life
  • Understand
  • Loved

• À vous il faut la vie naturelle, à moi la vie factice.

  

  Edgar Degas

• They the government really want to maintain power. At the same time, they refuse to communicate. They refuse to have good intentions. They refuse to be sincere. How can that last?

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Time
  • Good
  • Power

• It is quite possible to be both. I look upon myself as a man. Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Man
  • Mankind
  • Disease

• I'll say it again: you've got to put the argument back in the game. They're trying to make baseball mechanized, a machine. They're ruining baseball.

  

  Doug Harvey
  • Trying
  • Game
  • Baseball

• The hard part about writing about a guy like John Brown is that he was so serious, and his cause was so serious, that most of what's been written about him is really serious and, in my opinion, a little bit boring.

  

  James McBride
  • Writing
  • Guy
  • Opinion

• I am always looking for inspiration. I always live in big cities where I can go every day to a museum, see a lecture, meet people that are artists, go to the cinema. For me, it's like food. It is necessary for my personal growth as a person to grow as an artist, I go basically every week to three or four things. But it's real life that inspires me - when I meet somebody, when I see something.

  

  Blanca Li
  • Food
  • Inspiration
  • Artists

• I went off. They were unforced turnovers, too.

  

  C. Vivian Stringer
  • Turnovers
  • Went off
  • Unforced

• The wrinkles of a nation are as visible as those of an individual.

  

  Emil Cioran