Samuel Beckett Quotes

Don't wait to be hunted to hide, that's always been my motto.

Samuel Beckett

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• I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Long
  • Truth
  • Lists

• A different language is a different vision of life.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Life
  • Different
  • Vision

• I had short hair for a while, but I ended up loving it.

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • Up
  • Hair
  • Short

• I never set out to do this - getting to No. 1 in the 'New York Times' bestseller list wasn't even a pipedream.

  

  E. L. James
  • Never
  • New
  • New York

• I don't want a girlfriend because that means I've got a responsibility. I have a responsibility to call you. I have a responsibility not to be with another woman. I have a responsibility to be there on time when you need me.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Time
  • Responsibility
  • Woman

• People didn't wasn't the People's party to come in to power again, so they saw NS a viable alternative not us, because everyone knew we were not ready.

  

  Imran Khan
  • People
  • Power
  • Party

• I have always wanted my children's dads to be involved in their lives. Not just the day-to-day aspect, but the emotional shifts that they go through, when little things pop up - they need to be included, absolutely, and for the children to feel that they are.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • Children
  • Emotional

• I was always fascinated by politics, and I was exposed to it quite a lot.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Always
  • Politics
  • Exposed

• I grew up in Chicago, IL. I've got three siblings.

  

  Lamorne Morris
  • Up
  • Chicago
  • Three

• When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which.

  

  E. Y. Harburg
  • Know
  • Never
  • Rich

• I knew what it was at last-the visible manifestation of my will. My power, inherited from my god ancestors and distilled through generations of humanity, given shape and energy and potential. That was all magic was, really, in the end. Possibility. With it I could create anything, provided I believed.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • God
  • Power
  • Energy

• One lonely voice still shouting labour!

  

  Edward Heath
  • Lonely

• Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Chaos

• I like the name Atomic Kitten. It's so great.

  

  Bryan Ferry Roxy Music
  • Great

• The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Survival

• I cannot help hoping that many will feel themselves obliged to buy it. I shall not mind imagining it a disagreeable duty to them, so as they do it.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Mind
  • Help

• 'Are you saying it's too loud? It's got to be loud. You're supposed to feel it all over.'

  

  James Hetfield Metallica

• I put the most pressure on myself.

  

  Paula Creamer

• I have normal friends. I sit at my house, and they practically live with me, and I watch them get ready to go to a high school party, hang out with their friends, go to concerts.

  

  Kylie Jenner
  • Live
  • School
  • Friends

• But to say that you don’t like that kind of music just because it IS that kind of music is silly. It’s a very big issue, a big controversy amongst jazz critics.

  

  Boney James
  • Music
  • Silly
  • Critics

• Character is incredibly jagged, and incredibly contextualized, even to the point where I still feel uncomfortable thinking about it.

  

  L. Todd Rose
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Uncomfortable

• A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Young Man
  • Elder Man

• My feeling is that in the purest form, an actor is a service to the people. It's democratic in its purest form. That's what an actor is. If he or she isn't that, then there is no purpose in doing it. They're like priests.

  

  Scott Cohen
  • People
  • Purpose
  • Feelings

• Don't wait to be hunted to hide, that's always been my motto.

  

  Samuel Beckett