Eugene Ionesco Quotes
A person who has not completely lost the memory of paradise, even though it is a faint one, will suffer endlessly. He will feel the call of the essential world, will hear the voice that comes from so far away that one cannot find out where it comes from, a voice that cannot guide him.
Quotes to Explore
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If you love attention and have a pretty decent voice, that's a pretty good combination.
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High fashion has become representative of stability in unstable places; that allows you to have a voice in the world stage.
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I think my mom exposed me to the concept of using your voice for anything you care about.
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Literature is memory written down. All literature is memory.
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Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.
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Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
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Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'
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How come I love having an episode of deja vu? It's akin to an out-of-body experience, I would think. It sits with me, happily, begging me to delve into my memory to find its match point.
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I've only used my own voice about four times on film.
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It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
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I'm a writer who simply can't know what I'm writing about until the writing lets me discover it. In a sense, my writing process embraces the gapped nature of my memory process, leaping across spaces that represent all I've lost and establishing fresh patterns within all that remains.
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Honest people remember stories in the order of emotional prominence, but liars will recount a story in chronological order. Memory rarely works that way.
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It's more than a little ironic that the mantra that swept Bill Clinton into office is exactly what prevented Hillary from winning it. Somehow, the Manhattan billionaire became the voice of the disaffected blue-collar middle class in states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.
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I'm more interested in having a place to work out my voice and my body than I am in having furniture.
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If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?
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We've gone too far in thinking we can re-create an American democratic paradise in the Middle East.
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The people of the Fifth District of Louisiana need and deserve a voice in Washington.
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The American world had - seemingly, at least - become a Jeffersonian world by the election of 1800, which placed Thomas Jefferson in the presidency. Jefferson had been Hamilton's rival in the new government's early years, and Hamilton has figured in the public memory almost as much for that rivalry as for his positive achievements.
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Life's full of loss, who knows the cost, living in the memory of the love that never was.
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Nobody is made anything by hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory; practice must settle the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule; and you may as well hope to make a good painter, or musician, extempore, by a lecture and instruction in the arts of music and painting, as a coherent thinker, or a strict reasoner, by a set of rules, showing him wherein right reasoning consists.
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The statistical method gives only mediocre results.
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The next night I got on an airplane, and flew to New York and looked into acting schools. Four or five acting schools. One of which was the Neighborhood Playhouse, which I started at six months there after.
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A person who has not completely lost the memory of paradise, even though it is a faint one, will suffer endlessly. He will feel the call of the essential world, will hear the voice that comes from so far away that one cannot find out where it comes from, a voice that cannot guide him.
