Eugene Ionesco Quotes
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Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down.
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When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.
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I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.
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I said if I have a No. 1, I'll do a naked photo shoot! I'm not sure a lot of people would like to see that, but it was more to the fans, really. Every gig I do, they try to get me to take my clothes off, so it's a promise to them - if I get a No. 1, I'll happily do a naked shoot.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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Most people are completely unaware of their breath. They violate your space, they have no idea that they have halitosis.
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When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.
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If the people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop them.
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The First Amendment applies to rogues and scoundrels. You don't lose your First Amendment rights because of a sleazy personality, or even for having committed a crime. Felons in jail are protected by the First Amendment.
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The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to 'Cathy' and then tell you, 'No, it's Kathy with a K' - it gets challenging after a while. It tests your stamina.
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I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.
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Too often, when Europeans talked of trans-Atlantic ties, we focused on the North Atlantic only.
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I was an accidental model. One day I was asked to me a model by a neighbor who was short on models. Then I got into TV.
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When you make your first film at 47 and anybody but your mother goes to see it, to me, that's a miracle.
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I'm trying to talk about challenging subjects people might not like and trying to find relief as we discuss it.
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Entitled people drive me insane. The world owes you nothing! Get over it!
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If a reviewer is beating me up, I just say, 'Oh well, my writing is not to his or her taste.' And that's as far as it goes. Because I will simultaneously read a review where somebody says, 'Oh my God, I had so much fun reading this book and I learned so much.'
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The Bible tells us that we're supposed to leave an inheritance for children.
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We figured you could download live shows for days, so we decided to go for a cream-of-the-crop approach, but not just take the best vocal or the best performances.
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Because we want international consensus...we will be allowing a good period of up to two weeks, maybe a little more, before we ask for a decision.
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It's always great when a defense is able to create turnovers and score. That's something we missed last year. We'd get some turnovers, but we never scored points.
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For makeup, a bit of blusher - what you call bronzer - a bit of an eye, and an eyelash curler.
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Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches.