Eliot Weinberger Quotes

William Carlos Williams, late in his long life, had a dream: He saw an enormous spiral staircase in empty space, and his father slowly descending toward him. When he reached the bottom, his father walked over, looked him in the eye and said: “You know those poems you're writing? They're no good.”

Eliot Weinberger

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• I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • Time
  • Past
  • Fitness

• The worst affected from corruption is the common man.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Man
  • Worst
  • Corruption

• The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Problem
  • Impossible
  • Rich

• Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Opportunity
  • Romantic
  • Scary

• I think we should all call ourselves feminists.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Think
  • Call
  • Feminists

• You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • Money
  • Giving

• I am a huge, huge fan of the plain white tee. A good-fitting, vintage plain white t-shirt, like the 'boyfriend shirt', is the sexiest thing a girl can wear. It goes with anything, fancy or casual.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Good
  • Girl
  • Fan

• Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.

  

  Major Owens
  • School
  • Together
  • Education

• Every television show is sentenced to death - time and date of execution unknown.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Time
  • Death
  • Unknown

• We're still in a recession. We're not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Will
  • Still
  • Recession

• With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.

  

  Adam Osborne
  • Good
  • You
  • Software

• I'm not musical myself.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Myself
  • Musical

• Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.

  

  Logic
  • Confidence
  • Logic

• When I was a kid, I wanted to be serious, like Daniel Day-Lewis. No one really dreams of being a comic actor, do they? Now I realise how stupid that is - and it's because comic acting isn't taken seriously enough. It's a discipline. You know instantly - either you're funny and getting the laughs, or you're not.

  

  Chris O'Dowd
  • Funny
  • Taken
  • Serious

• Passion provides purpose, but data drives decisions.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • Passion
  • Purpose

• I never want kids to walk away after a school presentation and say, 'I met a writer today.' I want them to say, 'I am a writer.'

  

  Doreen Cronin
  • School
  • Kids
  • Today

• Twins have a special bond. They feel safer with each other than with their peers.

  

  Jeanne Phillips

• The real secrets of Masonry are never told, not even from mouth to ear. For the real secret of Masonry is spoken to your heart and from it to the heart of your brother. Never the language made for tongue may speak it, it is uttered only in the eye in those manifestations of that love which a man has for his friend, which passeth all other loves.

  

  William Howard Taft
  • Men
  • Real
  • Heart

• There are so many dreams beyond our nights, and so much sunshine beyond our gray walls. But we can't see it when we stay at home. There is so much sky above our roof. Is the door so old that it won't open, or are we at home because we're afraid of catching a chill?

  

  Francoise Hardy
  • Home
  • Dream
  • Night

• I'm not done yet making people miserable. If they're going to make me miserable, then I'm going to make them miserable.

  

  Brett Hull
  • People
  • Done

• Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Want
  • Sports
  • Discrimination

• The one I have the most angst towards would be YouTube. We had an opportunity to invest, and I just got nervous about the media industry's response to the unlicensed content on the site.

  

  Peter Fenton Siouxsie and the Banshees
  • Opportunity

• William Carlos Williams, late in his long life, had a dream: He saw an enormous spiral staircase in empty space, and his father slowly descending toward him. When he reached the bottom, his father walked over, looked him in the eye and said: “You know those poems you're writing? They're no good.”

  

  Eliot Weinberger
  • Dream
  • Eye
  • Reached