Eugene Ionesco Quotes

Theatre is simply what cannot be expressed by any other means; a complexity of words, movements, gestures that convey a vision of the world inexpressible in any other way.

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• Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.

  

  Ian Botham
  • Time
  • Good
  • Light

• I love the look of full brows that aren't perfectly done - eyebrows on fleek: that's the goal.

  

  Kaia Gerber
  • Love
  • Done
  • Goal

• As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Help
  • Think
  • Chance

• I once rode a motorcycle across Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco!

  

  Cara Black
  • Motorcycle
  • Once
  • Morocco

• Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Mind
  • Food
  • Body

• It used to be that we disagreed over the basic facts we were fighting over, and we had different opinions about them. Now I think we accept different sources of authority. ... And people can establish credibility on their own say-so as long as nobody follows the trail and calls them out on it.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • People
  • Different
  • Long

• I wouldn't mind being like X-Men and having the claws. I mean, I don't think they'd let me play football, but it would look cool.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Football

• I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology.

  

  Oswald Spengler
  • Practice
  • Psychology
  • Craft

• I think that, ultimately, there are so many characters in G.I. Joe that even all the iterations - the comics and the different cartoons and everything - have been a big ensemble. Lots of crossing storylines and stuff.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Different
  • Think
  • Everything

• Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Heart
  • Space
  • Pain

• I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.

  

  Tayari Jones
  • Writing
  • Practice
  • Students

• All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a leader?

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Men
  • Character
  • America

• My father is from Bosnia, and my mother is from Croatia, but I was born in Sweden.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Born

• Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.

  

  Vanessa Redgrave
  • People
  • Want
  • Poetry

• I love the life of an actor because you spend brief amounts of time with other people and then you just leave. I need to be alone a lot, and I need the outdoors.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• We have to build the spiritual world out of symbols taken from our own personality, as we build the scientific world out of the symbols of the mathematician.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • World
  • Taken
  • Spiritual

• I read Christopher McDougall's book 'Born to Run.' If running were a religion, this would be its bible. I actually scribbled my favorite passages on my arm to read during the race.

  

  Jennifer Carpenter
  • Book
  • Running
  • Bible

• I cannot tell how much my heart suffered for my people while at Leavenworth.

  

  Chief Joseph
  • People
  • Heart

• I think that the basic philosophy was very good. It was just be nice to each other, and don't step on other people's toes and infringe on their freedom.

  

  Kevin Ayers
  • People
  • Good
  • Freedom

• I was the first African-American woman to play Maggie in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.' It was at the Virginia State Theatre, and we turned Richmond upside down.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • American
  • Woman
  • Theatre

• More often than not, theatre critics bubble with enthusiasm about plays that are, when all is said and done, really pretty average.

  

  Craig Brown
  • Done
  • Pretty
  • Theatre

• When you have a political environment that is being so heavily influenced by the Tea Party that calls for shrinking the size of government, you can't ignore it. There are political realities.

  

  Steve Capus
  • Political
  • Influence
  • Realities

• When you have an opportunity to learn, you become smarter at more things. Having run government for four years, and being in charge of 26 departments, that's an education. So I think I'm savvier today. And probably more cynical.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • Today
  • Opportunity
  • Education

• Theatre is simply what cannot be expressed by any other means; a complexity of words, movements, gestures that convey a vision of the world inexpressible in any other way.

  

  Eugene Ionesco
  • Vision
  • Theatre
  • Means