Samuel Beckett Quotes

My appearance still made people laugh, with that hearty jovial laugh so good for the health.

Samuel Beckett

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• I think it was a good challenge for me to get my reactions across without being able to speak.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Good
  • Think
  • Challenge

• Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • Children
  • Telling

• It doesn't work that way, you know, because most parts that you think you'd do well, most other people don't. So they offer you something - The Avengers is a good example... I fitted into that because I came from that sort of background. It's not even acting.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Nothing's better than coming away from a film when people don't even recognize you, because you've undergone a total transformation.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • People
  • You
  • Transformation

• This is kind of weird, but I eat lemons with salt as snack. They're so good!

  

  Becky G
  • Good
  • Kind
  • Weird

• A good story will keep you wondering about what's happening, what's going on, where does this go? Now it's going to go that way, now it's going to go that way. It has to do that. If it's predictable, it's just boring.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Good
  • Story
  • Now

• The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.

  

  Jack Germond
  • People
  • Important
  • Change

• Well, all I can say is, it's a day-by-day program, and so I'm very worried about relapsing, but I don't know. I don't want to use. I don't want to go back to that place because nothing good came of it. It was super dark; it's not nice.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Good
  • Want
  • Nice

• I don't consider Los Angeles home anymore; ultimately, it was pretty negative, but I did spend my formative years in the Valley and all around L.A. proper. Through my teenage years and into my young adulthood, up until the age of 30, I spent a good amount of time there.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade.

  

  Gallagher
  • People
  • Life
  • Art

• I am not a political writer. I agree with Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell, who are social writers. I can't write in that fashion. I am not good enough for that. What I am interested in is family dramas and why we are doing bad things to each other and what our motives are.

  

  Hakan Nesser
  • Good
  • Family
  • Why

• Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Good
  • Hope
  • Acting

• It's human nature to want to be with other people.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • People
  • Nature
  • Want

• So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• It's much funnier when the comedy can happen with me just trying my best to genuinely do a good thing.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Comedy

• Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Strong
  • Born

• It's such a joy to talk to a roomful of people who have read my novel and are eager to talk about it.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • People
  • Joy
  • Talk

• American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Good
  • American
  • Nice

• The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Doubt
  • Intelligent
  • Shadow

• Part of a campaign reporter's job is allowing yourself to be used.

  

  Amy Chozick
  • Job

• The best route out of poverty, to avoid food bank usage, is to make sure more people get a job.

  

  David Cameron
  • People
  • Job
  • Food

• The federal government needs to get off the backs of small businesses and let the private sector grow and create jobs instead of harnessing it with onerous regulations and a repressive tax code.

  

  Matt Salmon
  • Small

• Robert Arctor halted. Stared at them, at the straights in their fat suits, their fat ties, their fat shoes, and he thought, Substance D can’t destroy their brains; they have none.

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • Shoes

• My appearance still made people laugh, with that hearty jovial laugh so good for the health.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • People
  • Good
  • Health