Samuel Beckett Quotes

Hamm: Ah, the old questions, the old answers, there's nothing like them!

Samuel Beckett

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• Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Myself
  • Poetry
  • Now And Then

• I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Think
  • Write
  • Luxury

• If you're famous, you're not free.

  

  Tadanobu Asano
  • Free
  • You
  • Famous

• I strongly believe in political activity that has to do with choices - and not consensus that sometimes covers problems and doesn't resolve them.

  

  Edi Rama
  • Believe
  • Political
  • Choices

• I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.

  

  Verite
  • People
  • Music
  • Writing

• I think some days you should do a cartoon that is absolutely just for the laugh, and some days you should do a cartoon that just punches the reader right in the stomach. It's kind of nice to mix it up.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Up
  • Think
  • Nice

• I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • World
  • Play
  • Language

• If I wasn't acting, I would sail professionally. Nowhere specific, but I'd sail to Bermuda, South Africa, ya know, get paid to race in Regattas, I think that'd be pretty rad.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Acting

• My mother was a Democrat - southern Democrat, y'all.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Mother
  • Democrat
  • Southern

• Most of the cricketers are doing side businesses apart from playing the sport, so why should I be left behind. I feel there is a lot of money in making films, and since Punjabi cinema is doing good, this is a lucrative option for me.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Good
  • Money
  • Why

• The systematic murder of Christians in the Middle East is a horrible atrocity, and all of us should be united against it. Likewise, we should speak with one voice against the persecution of Jews, usually being carried out by the very same jihadist radicals.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Voice
  • Speak
  • Same

• Throughout this primary process the voters have vetted each candidate and after a spirited contest they have made clear who they believe is right person to lead our ticket and that is Governor Mitt Romney. I believe they have come to this conclusion because they know that Governor Romney will begin working on day one to turn around our economy.

  

  Candice S. Miller
  • Believe
  • Day
  • Process

• If I had my choice, I'd pick a song that tells a story every time. There is a great deal of pleasure in doing the vocal on a number that you can put feeling into.

  

  Vaughn Monroe
  • Time
  • Great
  • Song

• I want to ensure and the Government wants to ensure that Australia is well prepared to tackle dangerous climate change with a scheme which is both responsible and which meets our international commitments.

  

  Wayne Swan
  • Want
  • Change
  • Government

• Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Life
  • Poetry
  • Language

• I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.

  

  Walter Chrysler
  • Work
  • Never
  • Sorry

• I'd been told I was going to be the next big thing. But in actual fact, the complete opposite happened.

  

  Sam Riley
  • Fact
  • Big
  • Complete

• Now I get to pick and choose exactly what I want to do.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Want
  • Choose
  • Now

• Most of the real bad guys in the world are people like you and me; they're not stupid, and you can't smell their horns.

  

  Rutger Hauer
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Work
  • Vacation
  • Too Much

• The psychological profiling of a programmer is mostly the ability to shift levels of abstraction, from low level to high level. To see something in the small and to see something in the large.

  

  Donald Knuth
  • High
  • Small

• Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne And fall of many kings.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Fall
  • Kings
  • Tyranny

• Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said "erected in the sea of time." They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Mind
  • Change
  • Humanity

• Hamm: Ah, the old questions, the old answers, there's nothing like them!

  

  Samuel Beckett