Cyril Connolly Quotes

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

Cyril Connolly

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• You really are being quite foolish to smoke.

  

  Iain Glen
  • You
  • Foolish
  • Smoke

• I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Like

• I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Life
  • Funny
  • Commitment

• I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • People
  • Parents
  • Support

• I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.

  

  Hanif Kureishi
  • Writing
  • Crazy
  • Always

• I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Success
  • Reason
  • Successful

• This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.

  

  Walter Lang
  • May
  • Problem
  • Pride

• I can't understand Urdu, Bahasa or Russian, but when the Pakistani Faiz, the Indonesian Rendra and the Russian Rosdentvensky declaim, I can feel the living throb of rhythm and music, the warmth and passion of their poetry, as do the hundreds, not a mere roomful, of poetry lovers in the audience.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Music
  • Passion
  • Poetry

• There are rumors that we want to move back to the U.K., but we're so happy in America I actually can't see us ever leaving... People ask me how long it took to adapt. Twenty minutes.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Long
  • America

• Machiavelli had some cold tricks for people who wanted to be demagogues and wanted to take over the world.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • People
  • World
  • Cold

• Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Capitalism
  • Reform
  • Doomed

• London was a really multi-racial city ... It's incredible how comfortable people are with race there.

  

  Sade Adu
  • People
  • City
  • London

• I like trying to make sounds that are interesting and are a bit weird. I try to make music that captures people's imaginations.

  

  Sampha
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• You talked about national identity cards and the terrorism bill. We have made a government that has grown used to viewing us as subjects, has grown used to seeing its role as commanding us.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Government
  • Identity
  • Cards

• Well I do think there are people who are habitually negative and depressed and take the opposite approach because they imagine the worst, and their minds become dominated by that. They let their own emotions and expectations transform their perceptions of the world.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • World
  • Expectations

• Being married, I've got so many things to do that I am the last to do things for myself. Taking care of my body has been difficult, but I am doing the best that I can.

  

  Ian Ziering
  • Care
  • Body
  • Married

• A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • Morning
  • Meaning

• God says in the Quran that there is only one true religion, God's religion. It's the same theme that God revealed to all of the prophets, even before Muhammad.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • God
  • True
  • Religion

• 'Everywhere you look it unpacks to infinity. What you look for, you find. And you people can have it. All of it.'The comfortable generosity of this offer puzzled Kearney, so he decided to ignore it. It seemed meaningless anyway.

  

  M. John Harrison
  • People
  • Ignore
  • Generosity

• In war, men are nothing, one man is everything.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Men
  • War
  • Everything

• I come from - I came from Wales, and it's a strong, butch society. We were in the war and all that. People didn't waste time feeling sorry for themselves. You had to get on with it. So my credo is get on with it. I don't waste time being soft. I'm not cold, but I don't like being, wasting my time with - life's too short.

  

  Anthony Hopkins
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Search for what is good and strong and beautiful in your society and elaborate from there. Push outward. Always create from what you already have. Then you will know what to do.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Society
  • Search
  • Create

• Imagine a kind of system where you have lightweight electric vehicles relatively small battery capacity, and then picking up charge wherever they park. You never have to worry about filling up your car, never go to the gas station, never plug it in, never do any of these things.

  

  William J. Mitchell
  • Worry
  • Imagine
  • Capacity

• Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

  

  Cyril Connolly