Samuel Beckett Quotes
I think the next little bit of excitement is flying. I hope I am not too old to take it up seriously, nor too stupid about machines to qualify as a commercial pilot. I do not feel like spending the rest of my life writing books that no one will read. It is not as though I wanted to write them.
Samuel Beckett
Quotes to Explore
Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.
Victoria Pratt
The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
Walter Ulbricht
I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
Gail Sheehy
The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
Salvador Dali
We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.
Kate Bush
I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
Sally Mann
The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.
Fabrizio Moreira
I think there's a certain space people have decided I occupy - the funny-sidekick thing.
Zooey Deschanel
No man ever listened himself out of a job.
Calvin Coolidge
If we want girls to receive positive reinforcement for early acts of leadership, let's discourage bossy behavior along with banning bossy labels. That means teaching girls to engage in behaviors that earn admiration before they assert their authority.
Adam Grant
All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.
Immanuel Kant
I first saw Walter Hill's second film, 'The Driver,' as a teenager, late at night on the BBC, quite possibly sitting too close to the telly. Given that this 1978 slice of neo-noir takes place almost entirely in the dark streets of a deserted downtown L.A., it's really a perfect midnight movie.
Edgar Wright
I just try to let myself really focus on the work that's ahead of me and what my job is and how I bring something to life.
Zachary Quinto
I think men are, like, repulsive, and I prefer being in a room with women. I think they're often just more interesting.
Jack Antonoff
Fun.
Whether or no it be for the general good, life is robbery. It is at this point that with life morals become acute. The robber requires justification.
Alfred North Whitehead
Tessa was convinced that it was a lie, and also that everything she had done in her life, telling herself that it was for the best, had been no more than blind selfishness, generating confusion and mess all around. But who could bear to know which stars were already dead, she thought, blinking up at the night sky; could anybody stand to know they all were?
Joanne Rowling
I think the next little bit of excitement is flying. I hope I am not too old to take it up seriously, nor too stupid about machines to qualify as a commercial pilot. I do not feel like spending the rest of my life writing books that no one will read. It is not as though I wanted to write them.
Samuel Beckett
