Emil Cioran Quotes

To have accomplished nothing and to die overworked.

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• My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • School
  • Library
  • Grandmother

• I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Mind
  • City
  • Crazy

• When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you're just a kid; you don't necessarily even have the experiences to add to the story. You're working off of instinct and raw emotions and raw talent, and hopefully it's the same trajectory as growing as a person.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Age
  • Growing
  • Same

• This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Work
  • Doing
  • Environmental

• Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Life
  • Music
  • Believe

• I heard the new film, 'Tangerine,' was filmed entirely on iPhones. No cameras were involved!

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Film
  • New
  • Involved

• I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • True
  • More
  • Countryside

• When you have balance in your life, work becomes an entirely different experience. There is a passion that moves you to a whole new level of fulfillment and gratitude, and that's when you can do your best... for yourself and for others.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Life
  • Work
  • Different

• I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction. I've done so many albums where I've been in the studio for 14 hours a day for six months just trying to come up with things on my own. It's a nice change helping other people with their music and not being all about what I'm trying to do myself.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• If our inner being was to be turned to the outside, and our outer being turned inward, we would appear with more wounds and diseases than the Prophet Job. For each sin that we commit and each doubt that enters our mind causes wounds in our heart and our spirit.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Job

• My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Politics
  • Professional

• The score never interested me, only the game.

  

  Mae West
  • Game
  • Me
  • Never

• It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Up
  • Quality
  • Old

• In Pakistan politics is hereditary.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Politics
  • Pakistan

• Before all this happened, I always used to see my stammer as being a negative, all my life, but then when I went on 'Pop Idol,' and the first time I saw it on television, it was really, really bad, but also it made me stand out; it made people remember me. So for the first time in my life, it worked to my advantage.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Her blue eyes sought the west afar,For lovers love the western star.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Eyes
  • Star
  • Blue

• It may sound lame, but I've been journaling since I was in third grade. I love it! It makes me feel calm and happy.

  

  Brittany Snow
  • May
  • Happy
  • Calm

• Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Men
  • Die
  • Imagination

• 'Foote,' (said lord Sandwich) 'I have often wondered what catastrophe would bring you to your end; but I think, that you must either die of the p-x, or the halter.' 'My lord,' (replied Foote instantaneously) 'that will depend upon one of two contingencies; - whether I embrace your lordship's mistress, or your lordship's principles.'

  

  Samuel Foote
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• Hope I die before I turn into Pete Townshend.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Hope
  • Die

• There is, however, equally great incentive to worship and love God in the thought that, for some unfathomable reason, He wants me as His friend, and desires to be my friend, and has given His Son to die for me in order to realize this purpose. not merely that we know God, but that He knows us.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Great
  • God
  • Die

• To have accomplished nothing and to die overworked.

  

  Emil Cioran
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