Elias Canetti Quotes

You need the rhetoric of others, the aversion it inspires, in order to find the way out of your own.

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• You can't control where your heart goes.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Heart
  • You
  • Control

• I don't look like a model, but you have to work with what you got.

  

  Karyn Parsons
  • Work
  • You
  • Model

• I have been running since I was 7. I was trying to restructure the way my body was made instead of trying to master the way I ran. I would get so frustrated with my starts in practices that I would just cry. When I ran, I wouldn't even try to get out of the blocks, I would just run.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Trying
  • Running
  • Body

• Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Character
  • Wisdom
  • Looking

• The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Funny
  • Place
  • First

• In poetry, I have, since very young, loved poetry in translation. The Chinese, the French, the Russians, Italians, Indians and early Celts: the formality of the translator's voice, their measured breath and anxiety moves me as it lingers over the original.

  

  Fanny Howe
  • Poetry
  • Voice
  • Chinese

• New voices in an old art - and women poets have been that for much more than a century - do not diminish the art through the category. They enrich it. They renew it with common quandaries of craft and innovation. The category simply allows the quandaries to be seen more clearly.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Women
  • Art
  • Innovation

• Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Help
  • Man
  • Brave

• But friends invited me to a private screening of Emmanuelle and said I'd learn a few things. But I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. So I declined.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Friends
  • Words
  • Learn

• Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Good
  • Love
  • Health

• There are things that bother me. I try not to let them, but they do.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Me
  • Things
  • Try

• When you know that you can overcome challenges, you do gain that self-respect, and then you won't end up in a situation that you regret later on.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Up
  • Respect
  • End

• When it gets down to it you just have to act.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • You
  • Down
  • Act

• I have no problem with people eating meat. I would just like it, for the people who do eat meat, for the animals to be treated better. To be treated humanely. Cows in pastures living the life that they're supposed to live. I have no problem with that.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• They the US get our oil and give us a worthless piece of paper.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

• My Aunt Agatha, the curse of the Home Counties and a menace to one and all.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Home
  • Aunt

• Ice formed on the butler's upper slopes.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• An honest man nearly always thinks justly.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• You want to know what makes me tick, I'll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called 'The Hawk's Nest.' Nobody entered that nest that didn't leave a little richer and a little wiser. And that 11-year-old boy said, 'Isn't that a wonderful thing.' And that's all there is to it.

  

  Buddy Hackett
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Boy

• You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • People
  • Business
  • High

• You know that they're not just into it for the moment, they really care about it and value it over time.

  

  Matthew Sweet
  • Time
  • Value

• It is spectacular. From about five minutes in, when we knew for sure that we were going to have the weather to go, the smile on my face just got bigger and bigger, and I was just beaming through the whole launch. I mean, it is just an amazing ride.

  

  Chris Hadfield
  • Amazing
  • Smile

• You need the rhetoric of others, the aversion it inspires, in order to find the way out of your own.

  

  Elias Canetti