Elias Canetti Quotes

I hate judgments that only crush and don’t transform.

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• Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Fun
  • Some
  • Harry Potter

• I never really fitted in, because I've always been interested in really dark things.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Always
  • Dark
  • Never

• Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.

  

  Yousuf Karsh
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Task

• There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.

  

  Quico Canseco
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Liberty

• We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Israel
  • Dealing
  • Treachery

• I love being a part of Aqua Teen.

  

  Dana Snyder
  • Being
  • Part
  • Aqua

• Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Death
  • Culture
  • Where

• Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.

  

  Daniel Akaka
  • Country
  • American
  • Rest

• I have heard nothing from my friends at The Family Guy. Yeah, I heard that they got picked up again and all that good stuff, but I haven't heard anything yet. But, you know, I'm very elusive and hard to contact.

  

  Patrick Warburton
  • Up
  • Good
  • Family

• I'm not afraid of change, let's put it that way.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Way
  • Change
  • Afraid

• The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Country
  • Universe
  • Ideas

• Policymakers can draw much from 'The Need for Roots': such clear prescriptions as that employers ought to provide an adequate vocational training for their employees, education should be compulsory and publicly funded, and include technical as well as elementary education.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Education
  • Training
  • Roots

• You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.

  

  Ed Harris
  • City
  • Day
  • Sleep

• The lyrics are so important to me. And that there is something going on in the lyrics. That the song actually has something to say.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Important
  • Song
  • Me

• If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Education
  • Peace
  • Fight

• You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • You
  • Feeling
  • Feel

• I love high-end designers, but a head-to-toe designer look for me is extremely boring. I've always mixed it up.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Always
  • Boring
  • Designers

• Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Trust
  • Forget
  • Performance

• It places value on experience versus intellectual understanding. I saw a lot of people contemplating things but it didn't seem to lead to too many places. I got very interested in people who had discovered something more significant than an intellectual, abstract understanding.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Experience
  • Value

• I hate Sarah Palin, I would never vote for her, I hate her politics, but I kinda wanna fuck her. I know, it's unholy, it's so wrong. I want to eat her pussy from behind. Eskimo-style. No, you know I wouldn't eat that thing. 'Cause you know it's frozen. My tongue would stick...

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Hate
  • Style
  • Frozen

• I hate those old falsettos, I really do, and it's embarrassing since I've grown up.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Up
  • Hate
  • I Hate

• You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company.

  

  Caspar David Friedrich
  • Society
  • Hate
  • Avoid

• I don't really think in terms of goals.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Goals

• I hate judgments that only crush and don’t transform.

  

  Elias Canetti
  • Hate
  • Crush