Eugene Ionesco Quotes

The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has become an adult.

Eugene Ionesco

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• There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Time
  • Moments
  • Singing

• I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Death

• I want to give a child a life who wouldn't be given a life. I want a child that nobody else wants.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Life
  • Want
  • Child

• No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Rest
  • Opinion
  • Policy

• I don't believe in the model of pure inspiration. All of my creative work stems from a dialogue with others.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Work
  • Model
  • Inspiration

• Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Men
  • Funny
  • Like

• I want to play a psycho, something more challenging than just 'the girlfriend' part.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Want
  • Just
  • Girlfriend

• I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Work
  • Want
  • Thought

• I love to play with the notion of who the protagonist is - who is the audience supposed to root for? I did it in 'Sicario' and feel it was the strength of the script - guiding the audience's allegiance toward the villain because they think he's the hero, until it's revealed that he's the villain.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Love
  • Hero
  • Strength

• Hopefully, one day I won't have to be so caught up in all of that day-to-day, the Twitter and the Instagram. But I also would like to, at some point, turn off and take a break and also be, like, an artist.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Up
  • Day
  • Artist

• People were stopping me on the street to say, 'Oh my God, it's Crazy Eyes!' Which is kind of a funny thing to have people shout at you on the street.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • People
  • God
  • Funny

• So many people have asked me about getting their own LEGO Oscar that I submitted it to LEGO Ideas so that everyone has the ability to get one.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Ability

• You grow up a lot on set, but it doesn't change you.

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • Up
  • Change
  • Grow

• Once we relieve them from sanctions, their economy opens up, and they can sell oil and pistachios and whatever else they sell around the world. That was why Iran needed a deal. Everyone knows they fund terrorism around the world. Having that extra money will add a lot of problems and create a lot more hot spots.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Up
  • World
  • Money

• I believe singing should be like being an actor. People shouldn't have any problem buying an actor being in a comedy or a drama or a horror film. That should be the same way with music.

  

  Darren Criss
  • People
  • Music
  • Believe

• Whenever I get negative comments on Twitter, it's always from girls - often ones who are trying to make it in the media. I don't understand why we can't put that energy into uniting and supporting each other instead.

  

  Jameela Jamil
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Energy

• We really need a public-interest government that is not taking marching orders from the fossil-fuel industry and the banks and the war profiteers. We really need a government that is acting on our behalf.

  

  Jill Stein
  • War

• No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.

  

  Al Smith
  • Up
  • Christmas

• The lower Farmington River and Salmon Brook are unparalleled natural treasures with some of the highest water quality in Connecticut.

  

  Elizabeth Esty
  • Water
  • Quality
  • River

• Autumnal -- nothing to do with leaves. It is to do with a certain brownness at the edges of the day ... Brown is creeping up on us, take my word for it ... Russets and tangerine shades of old gold flushing the very outside edge of the senses... deep shining ochres, burnt umber and parchments of baked earth -- reflecting on itself and through itself, filtering the light. At such times, perhaps, coincidentally, the leaves might fall, somewhere, by repute. Yesterday was blue, like smoke.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Up
  • Earth
  • Light

• The only reason I would stay away from a period piece is because sometimes the women are painted in a very stereotypical weakling, wallflower way - that's something I don't want to do. I want to show strength in the women I play, and a journey of some sort.

  

  Dagmara Dominczyk
  • Women
  • Period
  • Journey

• To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Thinking
  • Cold
  • Doing

• The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has become an adult.

  

  Eugene Ionesco
  • Childhood
  • Existence
  • Familiar