Elias Canetti Quotes

He sometimes tells himself that there is nothing more to be said, simply because he won’t get around to saying it.-How contemptible!

Elias Canetti

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• The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • World
  • Mankind
  • Joke

• I'm trying to learn to smoke, which is rather weird when everyone is trying to stop. I'm not a smoker. But my character only smokes as an affectation.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Trying
  • Character
  • Stop

• I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Good
  • Great
  • Movie

• It's interesting that a lot of female artists want to collaborate with me.

  

  Maluma
  • Want
  • Interesting
  • Artists

• I had no luck when I started out as a model. I keep telling people that it's the only career in the world that you can't choose for yourself - you have to be chosen.

  

  Ines de La Fressange
  • People
  • World
  • Career

• I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Mind
  • Death
  • Earth

• One of the things I was so glad that happened to me on Knots was that I learned to relax.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Me
  • Learned
  • Relax

• My guilty pleasures are the websites where you can look at the fashions and see how different outfits will look. You can even take a picture of yourself and download it and play with the fashions! I love playing with these websites to see what I can learn.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Learn
  • See
  • Pleasures

• But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Good
  • Real
  • Fire

• The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Travel
  • Once
  • Roads

• I certainly wanted to maintain some sense of mystery about Picard and that's why we never allowed certain situations to fully evolve, like the relationship between Picard and Beverly Crusher.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Why
  • Relationship
  • Mystery

• As long as I own this football team and long after I'm gone, they will always be the Washington Redskins.

  

  Jack Kent Cooke
  • Long
  • Team
  • Football

• Someone else is going to read for me or go at my place to the mosque, and/or to tell me you shouldn't take anything from the West because the West is the enemy and so on. It is to me to decide. I am intelligent enough to be critical towards the West and take what I need and reject what is bad for me.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Bad
  • Enemy
  • Intelligent

• I took a break from acting for four years to get a degree in mathematics at UCLA, and during that time I had the rare opportunity to actually do research as an undergraduate. And myself and two other people co-authored a new theorem: Percolation and Gibbs States Multiplicity for Ferromagnetic Ashkin-Teller Models on Two Dimensions, or Z2.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • People
  • Time
  • Opportunity

• Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because I didn't know a language.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Family
  • Parents
  • College

• The time must come when, great and pressing as change and betterment may be, they do not involve killing and hurting people.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• Rock Hudson was on his deathbed, going, 'It was that last fucking dick... god DAMN it, why did I suck it, WHY DID I SUCK IT!?!? I was ahead of the game, Mister! Million of dicks, never had a problem before-dick, dick, dick, suck, suck, suck; dick, dick, dick, suck, suck, suck. Never had a problem-IT WAS THAT LAST GODDAMN DICK!!!'

  

  Sam Kinison
  • God
  • Why
  • Game

• The clouds preceded us.There was a muddy centre before we breathed. There was a myth before the myth began, Venerable and articulate and complete.From this the poem springs: that we live in a place That is not our own and, much more, not ourselves And hard it is in spite of blazoned days.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Live
  • Clouds

• Disgrace should be represented upside down, because all her deeds are contrary to God and tend to hell.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • God

• Science may explain the world, but we still have to explain science. The laws which enable the universe to come into being spontaneously seem themselves to be the product of exceedingly ingenious design. If physics is the product of design, the universe must have a purpose, and the evidence of modern physics suggests strongly to me that the purpose includes us

  

  Paul Davies
  • World
  • Purpose
  • Design

• When I first got into the league, I tried to fit in. Now I don't care.

  

  Dwyane Wade

• Be tough, hold a tough line, but don`t be running off into another war, especially since even if you support our troops and you want to have a robust foreign policy, you recognize that we have - we have been overdeploying our men and women, and we have been spilling our blood and treasure, and we need to be more careful.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Men
  • Women
  • War

• He sometimes tells himself that there is nothing more to be said, simply because he won’t get around to saying it.-How contemptible!

  

  Elias Canetti