Elfriede Jelinek Quotes

Every child instinctively heads toward dirt and filth unless you pull it back.

Elfriede Jelinek

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• As a child I really didn't like men at all, in fact.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Men
  • Child
  • Fact

• My kids like their eggs with catsup. I like mine with salsa.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Kids
  • Like
  • Eggs

• It sounds super cliche, but my sister is 12 years younger than me, and I remember when I was there holding her in my arms for the first time. And that kind of responsibility you feel when you hold a child in your arms.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Responsibility

• I moved to London to go to dance school when I was about 17, but then I realized that I didn't want to be a dancer anymore, so I dropped out after five or six weeks. All I wanted to do was sing and make music.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Music
  • School
  • Dance

• My University of Management will create managers who will float in happiness, success and fulfillment.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Success
  • Happiness
  • Management

• Todd and I have a very complementary working style .

  

  Sam Wood
  • Style
  • Working
  • Very

• I chose to treat the homosexuality like I would treat any other form of sexuality.

  

  Barbet Schroeder
  • Like
  • Treat
  • Sexuality

• Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Lie

• I would love for Senator Cruz, and everyone creating fear mongering and hatred, to consider creating hope, optimism and love.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Hope
  • Fear
  • Hatred

• It was a privilege to direct the music video for Adele's beautiful, heartbreaking song, 'Hello.' When I first heard it, all the images appeared clearly in my head - and her trust and generosity allowed me to work with abandon artistically and emotionally, like she always does. It made me extremely proud.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Work
  • Music
  • Song

• I think the reason teenage fiction is so popular with adults is that adults hunger for narrative just as badly as teenagers do.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Think
  • Popular
  • Hunger

• I think of reading like a balanced diet; if your sentences are too baggy, too baroque, cut back on fatty Foster Wallace, say, and pick up Kafka as roughage.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Up
  • Think
  • Reading

• For many years, I supported the concept of separate states.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Years
  • States
  • Many

• Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going to fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

  

  Eddie Cantor
  • Life
  • Why
  • Scenery

• I'm hoping one day to open my own shelter. I would be the person with the three-legged dog. I just love animals more than people; I really do.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • People
  • Person
  • Animals

• Most public officials work hard to serve the public good and abide by Oregon's ethics laws.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Good
  • Work
  • Ethics

• I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Good
  • Men
  • Myself

• Well, I think that Augusta is not the same golf course that I grew up on. Bobby Jones' philosophy was giving you space off the tee; if you put it in the right side of the fairway, you ended up getting the right angle to the green.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Space

• Whether you reach a lot of people or have a profound impact on a few people, their memories of you are your afterlife.

  

  Gregory Walter Graffin Bad Religion
  • People
  • Memories
  • Profound

• I never get the girl - I always die. That is the catch with playing bad. I'm actually a very romantic person, and I would like to play in a love story. As long as it doesn't get too sweet. That's not me.

  

  Michael Wincott
  • Story
  • Sweet
  • Persons

• I love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing.

  

  Anna Deavere Smith
  • People

• I think we're experiencing a resurgence of fantasy-type conventions in general because people want to get out around kindred spirits. Cons are a great place to meet people you've been tweeting and FB'ing with, and since you've had an online relationship with them, it's not like meeting for the first time.

  

  Mel Odom
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• And we stood like that. The joining of hands is highly underrated in the acts of intimacy. You kiss acquaintances or colleagues, casually to say hello or good-bye. You might even kiss a close friend chastely on the lips. You might quickly hug anyone you knew. You might even meet someone at a party, take him home and sleep with him, never to see him or hear from him again. But to join hands and stand holding each other that way, with the electricity of possibilities flowing between you? The tenderness of it, the promise of it, is only something you share with a few people in your life.

  

  Lisa Unger
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• Every child instinctively heads toward dirt and filth unless you pull it back.

  

  Elfriede Jelinek