Samuel Beckett Quotes

This place, if I could describe this place, no place around me, there’s no end to me, I don’t know what it is, it isn’t flesh, it doesn’t end, it’s like air…

Samuel Beckett

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• I'm kind of a perfectionist, and it gets in the way with my putting sometimes. Golf is a messed-up game. When you feel you've figured it out is when you're going to struggle.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • Up
  • Game
  • Struggle

• When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Team
  • Worry
  • Learn

• I like seeing girls throw down.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • Like
  • Down
  • Seeing

• If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Power
  • Small
  • Small Things

• We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • History
  • Past
  • Passive

• I want to win football games.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Want
  • Football
  • Win

• Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • You
  • Always
  • Once

• Are we not all desperate one way or another?

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Way
  • Another
  • Desperate

• I made a very conscious decision to quit acting. I was on a series, and we were in the process of renegotiating. They had an idea of what they thought I was worth, and I had an idea that was quite different.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Different
  • Decision
  • Thought

• My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Child
  • Movies
  • Hollywood

• Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Morning

• The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Real
  • War
  • Peace

• Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want to be one of them.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • People
  • Want
  • Looking

• The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Country
  • Stop
  • Drug

• We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I don't know any racism against the Eskimos. To have a racist feeling, there must be an other who is slightly different from us - but is living close to us.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Different
  • Feeling
  • Know

• I think celebrities suck.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Think
  • I Think
  • Suck

• The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer, was William Goldman's 'Marathon Man.' That was the first adult thriller that I loved. I read it when I was 15 or so, when my father gave it to me.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Time
  • Book
  • Father

• DJs play a big responsibility of what hip-hop is doing... At the end of the day, it's up to us to control and to own hip-hop. DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.

  

  Nas
  • Up
  • Power
  • Control

• I think my strengths are definitely - I'm a really good glider. I'm one of the fastest, like on a straight drag race, I can pretty much kill that.

  

  Nate Holland
  • Good
  • Think
  • Pretty

• Susan Rodriguez: Harry, have you ever heard of the paperless office?Harry Dresden: Yeah. It's like Bigfoot. Someone says he knows someone who saw him, but you don't ever actually see him yourself.

  

  Jim Butcher

• I do not think the coerced mind ever really learns an art.

  

  Poul Anderson
  • Mind
  • Art

• Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.

  

  James Mackintosh
  • Good

• What is there in life except one's ideas. Good air, good friend, what is there in life? Is it ideas that I believe?

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Life
  • Good
  • Believe

• This place, if I could describe this place, no place around me, there’s no end to me, I don’t know what it is, it isn’t flesh, it doesn’t end, it’s like air…

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Air