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
Quotes to Explore
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
J. M. Coetzee
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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
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Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
P. T. Barnum
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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
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Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
Og Mandino
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Whether you do a play in front of 100 people or a movie that one billion people see, you're still affecting people.
Luke Ford
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As a traditionally risk-averse nation, India has rarely been at the forefront of innovation. Indian companies have mostly imitated others and became very good at it.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
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My mom was one of the original designers for Coach in the eighties, and she designed some classics, including the City Bag. It's the only bag I use!
Jane Levy
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Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much, as consigning them to eternal damnation.
James Hogg
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Young man, if God gives me four years more to rule this country, I believe it will become what it ought to be-what its Divine Author intended it to be-no longer one vast plantation for breeding human beings for the purpose of lust and bondage. But it will become a new Valley of Jehoshaphat, where all the nations of the earth will assemble together under one flag, worshipping a common God, and they will celebrate the resurrection of human freedom.
Abraham Lincoln
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You need the rhetoric of others, the aversion it inspires, in order to find the way out of your own.
Elias Canetti
