Cyril Connolly Quotes

Everything is a dangerous drug to me except reality, which is unendurable.

Cyril Connolly

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• When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Christian
  • Spirit
  • Reaction

• Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Balance
  • Sweet
  • Cooking

• After watching me in a larger-than-life character in 'Magadheera,' the audiences didn't accept me as a college–going boy in 'Orange.'

  

  Ram Charan
  • Life
  • Character
  • College

• The TiVo is really an amazing machine. Like everyone who has one, I totally recommend it. Just as everyone who's married will tell you to get married, and everyone who has a baby tells you to have a baby, everyone who owns a TiVo will tell you to get a TiVo, and they'll say things like 'Your life will be completely different.' It's true.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Life
  • Different
  • True

• If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.

  

  J. Cole
  • Day
  • Myself
  • Sleep

• A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Marriage

• Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'

  

  Saint Basil
  • Long
  • May
  • Fear

• The reason I don't tweet as much as I used to, is because I'm sick of all the useless opinions and hate that I get daily. Goodbye Twitter.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Hate
  • Daily
  • Sick

• I think there's plenty of evidence that we need to stop spewing so much carbon into the air, that we're contributing to climate change and that we ought to look for alternatives.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Change
  • Stop
  • Air

• Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Music
  • American
  • Name

• To wanna be me is to go through not just the good but the bad. You wanna share my story identically? Man, you gonna take some lumps.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Man

• I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • World
  • Like
  • Place

• All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Mind
  • Blood
  • Begin

• People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.

  

  Oliver Evans
  • People
  • See
  • Eat

• I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Guy

• I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Audience
  • Wonderful
  • Hearts

• I like to say it's an attitude of not just thinking outside the box, but not even seeing the box.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Thinking
  • Attitude
  • Box

• Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Past
  • Alone
  • Present

• For me, the best vacation is just relaxing on the couch!

  

  Scotty McCreery
  • Vacation

• Spring and Fall: To a Young Child Márgarét, are you gríeving Over Goldengrove unleaving? Leáves, líke the things of man, you With your fresh thoughts care for, can you? Ah! ás the heart grows older It will come to such sights colder By and by, nor spare a sigh Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie; And yet you wíll weep and know why. Now no matter, child, the name: Sórrow's spríngs áre the same. Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed What heart heard of, ghost guessed: It ís the blight man was born for, It is Margaret you mourn for.

  

  Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • World
  • Mind
  • Children

• There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.

  

  Idris Elba
  • You
  • Mine
  • Networking

• The true sign of decadence is not the collusion of the university and the state (something that is by no means incompatible with honest barbarity), but the theory and guarantee of academic freedom, when in reality people assume with brutal simplicity that the aim of study is to steer its disciples to a socially conceived individuality.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • People
  • True
  • Reality

• I tried heroin just the once. Even then, I didn't realize I'd taken it. I was just handed something, smoked it, then found out what it was. It didn't do anything for me, which was lucky because I wouldn't have fancied heading down that road.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Taken
  • Road
  • Drug

• Everything is a dangerous drug to me except reality, which is unendurable.

  

  Cyril Connolly
  • Reality
  • Drug