Joseph Conrad Quotes

There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it.

Joseph Conrad

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: polish
  • Birth: December 3, 1857 - August 3, 1924

Topics

LifeMenEndEasyEmptyForgotten

I think one of the things that attracted me about theater and the stage was the ability to escape reality. And that is what I do in my work as a writer, but in a different way. And the freedom to put your own existence on ice and become another person.

Jhumpa Lahiri

WorkFreedomMeThinkRealityIce

I'm a former prosecutor. And for me, the integrity of the justice system is all about the fact that these men and women go to work every day to be there for our country.

Amy Klobuchar

WorkWomenIntegrityJusticeDayMe

I don't understand the whole testing-numbers thing. It is not how I want to make movies.

Spike Jonze

WantMoviesUnderstandWholeHow

I think America loves cooperative black men. I am not against Colin Powell, but I know who he is.

Sister Souljah

MenI AmBlackThinkAmericaKnow

In the 46-48 kg. category, I know every boxer, and I defeat them whenever I fight them.

Mary Kom

FightDefeatKnowEveryCategory

I like the old, classic scary movies. I love 'Psycho,' 'The Sixth Sense,' and 'Poltergeist.'

Miranda Cosgrove

LoveMoviesClassicOldScarySense

We watched the U.S. citizenship immigration services web site in March. They had six million, two hundred thousand hits, and two million people downloaded applications for citizenship. So what we're doing is attempting to help people in that process.

Luis Gutierrez

PeopleImmigrationDoingHelpMarch

When I was focusing on theater, I would go on for months without any work and could hardly pay the rent.

Luke Evans

WorkGoRentPayWithoutWould

Reforms to product and labour markets, education, innovation, green growth, competition, taxes, health - they are the things that should be the object of our primary focus in the context of a long-term strategy to restore sustained growth.

Jose Angel Gurria

EducationGrowthInnovationHealth

Even when I had a run of successful prime-time shows, I couldn't sit down and enjoy my success. I would beat myself up and scrutinise everything. I'm a natural-born worrier.

Bobby Davro

SuccessMyselfEnjoyDownRunBeat

I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn't in her.

Alice Walker

MotherCommunityPeopleThinkNever

I started out as a young Ninja and killed all of the Shoguns. I am a Shogun now and I'm holding my spot. There probably won't be another Shogun after this.

Shaquille O'Neal

I AmYoungNowOutStartedNinja

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