Elias Canetti Quotes
You need the rhetoric of others, the aversion it inspires, in order to find the way out of your own.Elias Canetti
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You can't control where your heart goes.
Laura Prepon -
I don't look like a model, but you have to work with what you got.
Karyn Parsons -
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 -
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
Macaulay Culkin -
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
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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 -
Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
P. T. Barnum -
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 -
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
Og Mandino -
There are things that bother me. I try not to let them, but they do.
Usain Bolt -
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
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When it gets down to it you just have to act.
Aaron Eckhart -
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 -
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 -
Ice formed on the butler's upper slopes.
P. G. Wodehouse -
An honest man nearly always thinks justly.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.
Doug Larson -
When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not written. It's not in the stage direction and it's not in the words. When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.
Nathan Fillion -
Love is stronger than justice.
Sting The Police -
The ebulliently sharp mind of 'White Christmas' director Walter Bobbie made me tremble and strive in the same breath. The deceptively 'simple' dialogue of David Ives, asking every actor to just. say. it. Float it on the breeze; it doesn't need 'explanation,' just energy and truth.
David Ogden Stiers -
You need the rhetoric of others, the aversion it inspires, in order to find the way out of your own.
Elias Canetti