Emil Cioran Quotes
An anxious man constructs his terrors, then installs himself within them: a stay-at-home in a yawning chasm.
Quotes to Explore
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
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Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.
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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
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So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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Emilia Clarke has beautiful brunette hair.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
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Novelists get to say plenty in their massive tomes; rock singers only get four-minute songs with two verses and a chorus' worth of lyrics, and so there's a real pleasure in accessing the intelligence behind the music, even if it doesn't qualify as 'great literature.'
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I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.
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Clothes are not frippery. Properly done, they can be an art form.
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For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
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When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.
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The American audiences are more vocal and enthusiastic. British audiences tend to sit back a little more.
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I was the third son, and the family tradition was my dad always favored the oldest child.
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I'm the Godfather of Boxing. Everything is out in the open with me. What you see is what you get.
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My cousin Georgia says that boys are like gazelles. She says the get alarmed when they get close to girls. And they have to leap off into the woods like gazelles in trousers. Or have I just made that up?
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An anxious man constructs his terrors, then installs himself within them: a stay-at-home in a yawning chasm.
