Samuel Beckett Quotes

I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to me who knew what was intended.

Samuel Beckett

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• The difference between an actor and a star is the budget and the overall presentation of a film.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Star
  • Budget
  • Presentation

• It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Pretty
  • Like
  • Seem

• Promotions can be seen in two ways - either you hate them, and they're a burden, and you are getting through with it, or you can enjoy them. I decided early on that I was going to enjoy them. I did 43 interviews in a day for 'Kahaani.'

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Hate
  • Day
  • Enjoy

• There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Question
  • Two
  • Sides

• It's important to me to try and expose young people to the things they believe are off-limits to them. I tell them, 'There are no walls, only the ones we put up.' My advice to young people looking at my life is not to follow my footprint but to go out there and make their own.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I understand those who don't like me.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Me
  • Like
  • Understand

• I'm moving to Rio permanently with my family. It's one of the places left in the world where people still live with a big charge of poetry on a daily basis. I feel we've kind of lost that here in Europe.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • People
  • Future
  • Limits

• This country is pretty amazing.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Country
  • Pretty
  • Amazing

• Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • English
  • Baseball
  • Italian

• The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.

  

  Ice T
  • Music
  • Acting
  • Yourself

• I started my career with 'Refugee' in Bhuj. Now, it has become a full-fledged city.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Career
  • City
  • Now

• I like heels and make-up.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Up
  • Like
  • Makeup

• Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains or emotional intelligence. The key with any gift is in the way that you use it. It doesn't define you as a person. Rather, it's an asset to be used judiciously and with an understanding of how it is just a small part of who you are.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Small
  • Understanding
  • Emotional

• In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people.

  

  Panayiotis Zavos
  • People
  • Work
  • Help

• I always had a fascination with twins.

  

  Francine Pascal
  • Always
  • Fascination
  • Twins

• I shaved my head about 15 years ago and the first time I shaved it, I started running my hand through my hair and it was very therapeutic.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Time
  • Running
  • Hand

• Why if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this stock footage. The story opens on these mysterious explosions. Nobody knows what's causing them, but it's upsetting all the buffalo. So, the military are called in to solve the mystery.

  

  Ed Wood
  • Why
  • Movie
  • Military

• We won't be having an affair." I stare dumbly, certain I just heard an organ in my body crack in my chest. His hands clamp around me, and he crushes me to his body as he slides his nose along the shell of my ear. "When I take you, you'll be mine," he says, a soft promise in my ear.

  

  Katy Evans
  • Promise
  • Certain
  • Staring

• The English people think they are free; they are greatly deceived; they are free only during the election of members of Parliament.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Free

• I hate to sound cliché, but it would probably be the day my daughter was born. That was a pretty amazing experience.

  

  Cassandra Peterson
  • Experience
  • Hate
  • Daughter

• If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.

  

  Eric Schmidt

• We should not think that we achieve success in preaching through our own devices, but we should rely entirely on God.

  

  Saint Basil
  • God
  • Success

• I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to me who knew what was intended.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Thinking
  • Words