Samuel Beckett Quotes

You're on earth. There's no cure for that.

Samuel Beckett

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• At the age of 13, I felt it was up to me to decide whether I wanted to go to church or be with my mates, and I chose to go to church.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Me
  • Church
  • Decide

• I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • People
  • Play
  • Enjoy

• If one line about the film excites me, I try to take it forward.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Me
  • Film
  • Try

• Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Night
  • Fashion
  • Challenge

• I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.

  

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
  • Believe
  • America
  • City

• There's all sorts of stuff people want to publish anonymously.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • People
  • Want
  • Publish

• I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Up
  • Future
  • Boring

• For us, overseas employment addresses two major problems: unemployment and the balance of payments position.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Balance
  • Problems

• I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Think
  • Mistake
  • Learn

• I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Guy
  • Party
  • Very

• Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • People
  • World
  • Bad

• Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • People
  • Respect
  • Thoughts

• The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Mind

• You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle!

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Kind
  • Need
  • Motorcycle

• The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down.

  

  Manfred von Richthofen
  • Me
  • English
  • Down

• Being onstage is just a feeling that you cannot duplicate anywhere else because the energy that the audience is giving you forces you to give more energy. It's such an output and exchange of energy. You can't do that anywhere else.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Giving
  • You
  • Feeling

• Satire is, by definition, offensive. It is meant to make us feel uncomfortable. It is meant to make us scratch our heads, think, do a double-take, and then think again.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Think
  • Feel
  • Uncomfortable

• Brick-and-mortar at the end of the day matters because viral is great, but it comes and goes as fast.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Great
  • Day
  • End

• Its extremely dangerous to compare anyone else to Shakespeare.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Dangerous
  • Compare

• Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, paid my price in paltry gold; but, though theirs they have enroll'd me, minds are never to be sold.

  

  William Cowper
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Home

• There's nothing definite yet. Of course, any time you have a book, there's going to be book signings and stuff. We'll do bookstores that handle both audio and video. And some of the stores want to have the CDs available at the same time. So that part looks real good.

  

  Scotty Moore
  • Real
  • Book
  • Looks

• I knew that I tend to always gravitate to the indie side of things.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Always
  • Things
  • Indie

• If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • People
  • Want
  • Religion

• You're on earth. There's no cure for that.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Earth
  • You
  • Cure