Samuel Beckett Quotes

Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was, but that I was, forgot to be.

Samuel Beckett

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• But in Japanese, there's actually not much of a relationship between the music and the words.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Music
  • Words
  • Relationship

• I'm Greek. My body produces feta cheese.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Body
  • Greek
  • Cheese

• If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody.

  

  Abraham Polonsky
  • You
  • Day
  • Lucky

• It is not in our interest to sign economic policy agreements with the IMF, as that unnecessarily limits the room to manoeuvre of... the Hungarian government, Hungarian parliament and lawmakers.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Government
  • Economic
  • Limits

• My sister lived in England for a while when I was 12, and I came to visit her, and I spent most of the time in her flat reading.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Time
  • Reading
  • Sister

• I could never ever say enough about Matt Amato. He has an indescribable presence; this warm, loving, serene calm with intense interest and excitement bubbling beneath his exterior.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Enough
  • Calm
  • Warm

• There are many women who came before me who didn't really have the same opportunities that I have had. That's why I always wanted to be a great ambassador - not only today's generation - but for the women who really didn't have a voice, but who paved the way for me.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Great
  • Women
  • Why

• London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Culture
  • Fashion
  • Architecture

• The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do. You experience the loving parts of as gratitude, appreciation, caring, patience, contentment and awe of life.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Personality

• I'm just trying to say that it should reassure us that the inevitable traumas of being human do end up producing some good. Otherwise, the human condition is overwhelmingly depressing.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Up
  • Good
  • Trying

• The movies were custard compared to politics.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Politics
  • Movies
  • Were

• I was never really a comic-book fanatic.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Book
  • Never
  • Really

• Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice.

  

  Origen
  • Know
  • Justice
  • Place

• I knew a homeless guy who'd give all the copper coins that people gave him to charity. So I think there's something that makes us want to give. For me, it's quite a selfish luxury: you feel enlivened, deepened and self-nurtured by generosity.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Charity
  • Selfish
  • Generosity

• Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Good
  • Universe
  • Door

• I was a bed wetter till very late. My mom used to hang my sheets out the window to dry, and I'd have to run home from school in order to beat the other kids to my house so they wouldn't see them.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • School
  • Home
  • Kids

• I would love to work with Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, B.B. King. I'd love to do something with Arctic Monkeys, Miles Kane, and The Last Shadow Puppets. If I got a call from Juliette Lewis or PJ Harvey, or Chrissie Hynde, that'd be a thrill.

  

  Imelda May
  • Work
  • King
  • Last

• I was nervous about meeting Charlotte Rampling, as she's a proper legend, but she is just so sweet.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • She
  • Sweet
  • Legend

• Young Money militia and I am the commissioner. You ain't gotta say Weezy cause the 'F' is for finisha.

  

  Lil Wayne
  • Money

• As a parent, a scientist, and educator, what I know is that it's always better to provide the education that will help keep my children - all people - safe, even if I don't want them to engage in the behavior.

  

  Carl Hart
  • People
  • Children
  • Help

• Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Wealth
  • Distribution
  • Conceit

• I went to L'Academie de Cuisine in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and I think French cooking is the basis for a lot of classical cuisine, a foundation of a lot of other cuisines. That said, it's not the only way to approach a cooking career.

  

  Carla Hall
  • Think
  • Career
  • Cooking

• I am pretty standard, the way I dress, but matching the belt to the shoe - you know, brown belt, brown shoe, black belt black shoe - that's completely out of the window! I had no idea.

  

  Mark Consuelos
  • Pretty
  • Black

• Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was, but that I was, forgot to be.

  

  Samuel Beckett