Cesare Pavese Quotes

Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.

Cesare Pavese

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• It's a lot of work and I also feel like I've done it. I miss comedy. And I also think that, from purely a logistical standpoint, that the day-to-day schedule on a comedy allows you to have a life, much more of a life, than on a drama.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • Life
  • Work
  • Done

• That's what all art's about - a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can't in real life. Like a dancer is always trying to fly, really - to do something that's just not possible. But you try to do as much as you can within those physical boundaries.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Life
  • Real
  • Trying

• Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Time
  • Dance

• I don't have stamina in exercise... but I have it in life.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • Exercise
  • Stamina

• When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Life
  • Love
  • For Him

• I was fascinated with jeans, because you can impress your life upon the jeans you wear. The way you sit imprints on the jeans.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Life
  • You
  • Jeans

• I take so much pleasure at seeing customers who are happy: happy with what they eat, but happy with their friends and sharing a great moment together, and I think that is more important in life than the endless pursuit of perfection.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Life
  • Great
  • Important

• I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Life
  • Children
  • Job

• Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• If I've learned anything in my career, it's that nothing worthwhile in life comes easy. That's just the way it is.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Life
  • Career
  • Easy

• One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Life
  • Suffering
  • Boredom

• You wonder why I only talk about my personal life. But that's all I've ever done.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Life
  • Done
  • Why

• It is a lot of responsibility. But I enjoy being a father. That's one of the best parts of my life. I feel like, man, that's one of the greatest things I've got going on, being a father.

  

  T.I.
  • Life
  • Father
  • Responsibility

• I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Life
  • World
  • True

• One thing I carried my whole life, especially from my grandparents in Chicago, was a huge idealism for the world.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Life
  • World
  • Chicago

• All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.

  

  Ted Turner
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• The fact is that at different stages of your life, and under the influence of different inspirations, you write different things. The point is not necessarily to find your voice, which grinds out the same sort of thing again and again, but to find a vehicle for people who are far more important than the author: the characters.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• I want to be able to have a conversation with people. I don't want to be stupid. I'd like to have a life outside acting.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • People
  • Life
  • Stupid

• Of course having a baby derails the writing process for some time. And I will be the first to say that I have essentially no social life, because there's just nothing left after being a mom, professor, and writer. I used to be big into rock climbing. No more. A lot falls by the wayside.

  

  Marie Rutkoski
  • Life
  • Time
  • Writing

• Life is lived on its ownother's shoulders are used only at the time of funeral.

  

  Bhagat Singh
  • Life
  • Time
  • Life is

• Human philosophy tends to shake down into values which might be categorizes as intellectual, religious, moral, and aesthetic.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Religious
  • Moral
  • Aesthetic

• It no longer makes me cry and die and tear myself to see her go because everything goes away from me like that now - girls, visions, anything, just in the same way and forever and I accept lostness forever.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Die
  • Forever

• We do not want to be in the middle of an axis that starts in the Mediterranean and ends in Tehran. We do not want to be a barricade for [Iran's] nuclear facilities.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Iran
  • Nuclear
  • Axes

• Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Life
  • Smoking
  • Without