Oswald Spengler Quotes

It is the heritage of anguished centuries, and it distinguishes us from all other people-us, the youngest and last people of our culture. ...

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• In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • People
  • Live
  • Death

• I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Love
  • Stars
  • Dancing

• I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.'

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Work
  • Job
  • Living

• I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Bad
  • Boy
  • Misunderstood

• We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • People
  • Development
  • Islamic

• 'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It was non-Equity, so I lived in L.A. on $300 a week. I did that for a month and then came to New York to do a couple of gigs, including 'Hair' in the park, before going to London with 'Sister Act,' where I played the lead.

  

  Patina Miller
  • School
  • Hair
  • Couple

• If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.

  

  Barry Diller
  • You
  • Now
  • Stock

• My goal is to improve my game, stay healthy and be competitive. If I have that, I know I can be able to win tournaments, which in the end is what it counts.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Game
  • Goal
  • End

• Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Free
  • Crazy
  • Effort

• Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Always
  • Being
  • Apollo

• It is the original idea that is unique, not the object itself.

  

  Victor Vasarely
  • Unique
  • Idea
  • Original

• Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.

  

  Felix Bloch
  • Free
  • Imagination
  • Youth

• I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Important

• There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • World
  • Doors
  • Opening

• The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.

  

  Tana French
  • Find
  • Situation
  • Author

• I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Live
  • Done
  • Home

• There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.

  

  Ted Williams
  • Up
  • Yourself
  • Mad

• So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Money
  • Want
  • Well

• One thing I like about trying to write is that I can possibly write myself a role. Otherwise, you're at the mercy of whatever roles are out there that people are willing to give to you.

  

  Linda Cardellini
  • People
  • Trying
  • Mercy

• It was an unknown thing, a lot of people had very bad trips and I like to be in control.

  

  Cilla Black
  • People
  • Bad
  • Control

• Automated call centers are only the most obvious way speech recognition will be used. The software is now becoming sophisticated enough to identify speakers through 'voiceprints,' akin to fingerprints, eventually reducing the need for personal identification numbers.

  

  Alex Berenson

• I believe that the Internet is the information highway. I'm religious about this. I don't think it's cable television.

  

  James H. Clark
  • Believe
  • Religious

• I wonder why I write about these things. As if I didn't know them! Why do I tell myself in writing what I already so well know? Don't I know about the mountain, and the brimming cup of blue light? It is because, I suppose, it's lonely to stay inside oneself. One has to come out and talk. And if there is no one to talk to one imagines someone, as though one were writing a letter to somebody who loves one, and who will want to know, with the sweet eagerness and solicitude of love, what one does and what the place one is in looks like. It makes one feel less lonely to think like this,—to write it down, as if to one's friend who cares. For I'm afraid of loneliness; shiveringly, terribly afraid. I don't mean the ordinary physical loneliness, for here I am, deliberately travelled away from London to get to it, to its spaciousness and healing. I mean that awful loneliness of spirit that is the ultimate tragedy of life. When you've got to that, really reached it, without hope, without escape, you die. You just can't bear it, and you die.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Writing
  • Friend
  • Mountain

• It is the heritage of anguished centuries, and it distinguishes us from all other people-us, the youngest and last people of our culture. ...

  

  Oswald Spengler
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