Elfriede Jelinek Quotes

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Elfriede Jelinek

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• Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!

  

  Ed Koch
  • Get
  • Leave
  • Manhattan

• War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • War
  • Man
  • Desire

• Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • World
  • Down
  • Foot

• The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Truth
  • Support
  • Truth Is

• Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Truth
  • Lost
  • Hand

• I really hate bureaucracy and the idea that I'm not a free person.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Free
  • Hate
  • Idea

• I tested on a lot of TV shows and films after I finished drama school.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • School
  • Drama
  • TV Shows

• I think 'Lost' was really a pioneer in the use of the kind of connection between a television show and the Internet, and the Internet really gave fans an opportunity to create a community around the show. That was something that wasn't really planned; it just sort of grew up in the wake of the show.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Up
  • Opportunity
  • Community

• Overall when you work in fashion, you're always in a rush. You're always a little late, always in a hurry. Every single moment's important, so you never have enough time to do what you want to do. It's ridiculous.

  

  Ines de La Fressange
  • Time
  • Work
  • Important

• Every kid has a bug period... I never grew out of mine.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Never
  • Period
  • Out

• When you're young, you want to live fast, but you definitely don't want to die young. At the same time, you want to do things in slow, progressive manner that will benefit you in the future. Don't jump into things.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Time
  • Live
  • Future

• It costs you something to do good!

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Good
  • You
  • Something

• Among many morals which press upon us from the poor minister's miserable experience, we put only this into a sentence: - 'Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred!'

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • World
  • May
  • Experience

• The nurse is the nightTo wake to, to die in: and the day I live,The world and its life are her dreams.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Life
  • World
  • Live

• I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • World
  • Good
  • Live

• A callous disregard for the claims of innocent human life is the heart and soul of the evil of terrorism.

  

  Alan Keyes
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Soul

• I am a fairytale person and firmly believe that movies are made to entertain.

  

  Anushka Shetty
  • Believe
  • Fairytale

• Yet in this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination.

  

  Bob Taft
  • High

• Market forces will one day crush the Federal Reserve. One day, the market forces will reverse.

  

  Marc Faber
  • Crush

• The idea was that we would decide the order when we looked at the proofs. I remember Brion Gysin saying "Well, why change it? It's perfect the way it is, the way it came from the printer." Made one major change, that is, the first chapter that came from the printers, which would be the beginning, we moved to the end. The first chapter became the last chapter. There's no actual cutups in Naked Lunch.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Remember
  • Perfect
  • Moved

• 'Baywatch' sucks so bad. I didn't watch it the first time around; I'm sure not going to buy a DVD. But really, you just kind of find out the categories of what's most foolish about these people. With Hasselhoff, it's obviously the huge man-tits with chest hair, probably a lot about his crappy acting, obviously the hamburger video - that's huge.

  

  Lisa Lampanelli
  • People
  • Time
  • Bad

• George W. Bush: How's your boy?Webb: I'd like to get them out of Iraq, Mr. PresidentBush: That's not what I asked you. How's your boy?Webb: That's between me and my boy, Mr. President.

  

  Jim Webb
  • Boy

• Don’t start anything you can’t finish.

  

  Elfriede Jelinek