Elias Canetti Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
-
I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'
-
Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
-
Most actors can't make any kind of living.
-
First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.
-
The problem is not getting rid of fear, but using it properly.
-
Going to Freedom's Watch was a job opportunity that presented itself, so I jumped at it.
-
It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.
-
I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so they are only on display for me. It's pretty spectacular.
-
We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?
-
It often happens that the man who pursues the dollar too diligently finds it hard to catch, but if he will pursue some other and better goal, dollars come around to see what sort of fellow he is.
-
After the French Revolution, it was not the treason of the king that was in question; it was the existence of the king. You have to be very careful when you judge and execute somebody for being a symbol.
-
My mother often mailed me articles from 'Reader's Digest' about advances in DNA chemistry. No matter how I tried to explain it to her, she never grasped the concept that I could have been writing those articles, that something I had invented made most of those DNA discoveries possible.
-
But working with Dre, I grew up with his music, so I'm still like more a fan.
-
The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
-
If you distill the essence of everything, what life is about, every single one of us is given a short moment in time on this planet, and we all have one universal need and desire, and that is to be loved and to love. And to deny that for your own political expediency, I don't want to live in that column. It ain't worth it.
-
There's a balance in my life. There's reality, and there's the part that looks really glamorous, but we're all just people in the end.
-
I'm only at the beginning of my career, but I feel successful in that I haven't sold out in any way, shape or form. I feel good about the choices I've made, and I don't feel like I've let go of any of my values.
-
Think about how many dreams die with people - if you don't believe in yourself, whatever you're doing is for no reason.
-
The Tao is infinite, eternal. Why is it eternal? It was never born; thus it can never die. Why is it infinite? It has no desires for itself; thus it is present for all beings. The Master stays behind; that is why she is ahead. She is detached from all things; that is why she is one with them. Because she has let go of herself, she is perfectly fulfilled.
-
Before I had my child, animals were my life. I slept with four dogs in my bed.
-
The thing is, you throw brains and souls into an animal and stir, you don’t really know what you’re going to get.
-
Er erweist dem Tod nicht die Ehre.
