Eugene Ionesco Quotes

Childhood is the world of miracle or of magic: it is as if creation rose luminously out of the night, all new and fresh and astonishing. Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing. When the world gives you a feeling of "déjà vu," when you are used to existence, you become an adult.

Eugene Ionesco

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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.

Jack Adams
- Free
- You
- Advice
Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood photos, and even all the clothes I've worn on tour, in videos and on album covers.

R. Kelly
- House
- Childhood
- Clothes
The childhood poverty of both my parents and their minimal education did much to influence me and my two younger brothers in our education and career choices. One brother became a dentist and the other, a professor of anthropology with a Ph.D. degree.

Ferid Murad
- Career
- Parents
- Education
Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'

W. H. Davies
- Up
- Man
- Alone
During the 1960s, the Shanghai of my childhood seemed a portent of the media cities of the future, dominated by advertising and mass circulation newspapers and swept by unpredictable violence.

J. G. Ballard
I had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure.

Ed Helms
- Comedy
- Childhood
- Doing