Elias Canetti Quotes
'Life experience' does not amount to very much and could be learned from novels alone, e.g., from Balzac, without any help from life.
Quotes to Explore
-
I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
-
Craig Newmark looks like the kind of guy who would help you move your apartment, sell your furniture, get a job, or help you find that cute girl you saw on the subway.
-
Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
-
You need to let your hair produce its own oils and be healthy.
-
I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
-
I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
-
Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
-
I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
-
Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.
-
People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
-
That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.
-
We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.
-
What matters most is the win.
-
I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.
-
More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
-
Everything in nature is not just a straight up. It's an S-curve. It arises for a while until it hits some physical limitation, and then it plateaus again.
-
I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
-
Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.
-
The crucial thing is to arouse the awareness that as a matter of human conscience we can never permit the people of any country to fall victim to nuclear weapons, and for each individual to express their refusal to continue living in the shadow of the threat they pose.
-
All of that is constantly operating when you not only learn, but when you recall. But as you recall in a different light, the weights with which something is more probably going to be or not recalled on the next instance, are going to be changed. So you're constantly changing the way, for instance, synapses are going to fire very easily or not so easily.
-
My perspective is that, when you're a kid, if your audience is a group of children or teenagers, you do have some level of social responsibility. I feel that.
-
To obey a rule, to make a report, to give an order, to play a game of chess, are customs (uses, institutions)
-
Every hero must return home. Starks to Winterfell. Harry to Privet Drive. Luke Skywalker to Tattoine. Katniss to District twelve. The fun is in seeing how they return.
-
'Life experience' does not amount to very much and could be learned from novels alone, e.g., from Balzac, without any help from life.
