Arthur Cravan Quotes

Glory is a scandal. Let me state once & for all: I do not wish to be civilized.

Arthur Cravan

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• I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Song

• Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Up
  • School
  • Knowledge

• 'Mojave' is a very wild, throwback film with these two dudes going after each other.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Film
  • WIld
  • Throwback

• Throughout the world, terrorists are actively seeking their next recruit. Alarmingly, terrorist organizations are increasingly targeting school-age children as the next generation of terrorists.

  

  Pat Roberts
  • World
  • Children
  • School

• At some point in our life, each of us is very likely to be a care getter or a care giver or both.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Life

• One can never take the cynicism one comes across in life too seriously.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Life
  • Cynicism

• The fundamental grey which differentiates the masters, expresses them and is the soul of all colour.

  

  Odilon Redon
  • Soul
  • Masters
  • Fundamental

• Any woman that you're in love with or that loves you is going to command a certain amount of, you know, energy. It's actually easier to focus, in some ways.

  

  Kanye West
  • Energy
  • Focus

• The lunatic is all idée fixe, and whatever he comes across confirms his lunacy. You can tell him by the liberties he takes with common sense, by his flashes of inspiration, and by the fact that sooner or later he brings up the Templars.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Inspiration
  • Liberty
  • Common Sense

• It was reported that Anna Kournikova is coming out with her own brand of deodorant. Apparently, the ads show Kournikova holding up her deodorant and saying now only her tennis game stinks.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Up
  • Game
  • Tennis

• Your love keeps me afloat but will remain the anchor in my soul... I don't really have words to describe how romantic I find that. Your love is what keeps me going, but it's also the anchor that keeps me close to you. I love it!

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Soul
  • Words
  • Romantic

• Like so many Boomers, I saw 'Lawrence of Arabia' in 1962 when it was first released and when we were young teenagers. I'm not quite sure why - I really wish some psychologist would explain this - but that movie had a tremendous effect on many of us.

  

  Mary Doria Russell
  • Why
  • Movie
  • Wish

• Man, who don't like spaghetti?

  

  Jack Roy
  • Man
  • Like
  • Spaghetti

• In forcing people to leave, the Bosnian Serb authorities have behaved abominably, and the actions of the Federation authorities have been far from reassuring.

  

  Javier Solana
  • People
  • Serb Authorities
  • Federation Authorities

• I teach you the Overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? ... The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time has come to plant the seed to his highest hope.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Hope
  • Teach
  • Overcome

• To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says.

  

  D. H. Lawrence

• The sufferings of Christ are the means of forgiveness of sin and eternal glory.

  

  John Calvin
  • Christ
  • Sin
  • Glory

• I shall not remind you, Citizen-Directors, of all I have done for the triumph of liberty, the prosperity of St. Domingo, the glory of the French Republic; nor will I protest to you my attachment to our mother country, to my duties; my respect to the constitution, to the laws of the Republic, and my submission to the government.

  

  Toussaint Louverture
  • Country
  • Government
  • Liberty

• Glory is a scandal. Let me state once & for all: I do not wish to be civilized.

  

  Arthur Cravan
  • Glory
  • Civilized
  • Scandal