Arthur Koestler Quotes

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

Arthur Koestler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: hungarian
  • Birth: September 5, 1905 - March 1, 1983

Topics

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The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

TruthManThoughtsWorldKnowMore

I love Martin Amis.

Maura Tierney

LoveI LoveMartin

I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc.

Jeff Vandermeer

PotentialRepetitionTryAlwaysUse

Only when the oil and gas industry has taken full account of, and responsibility for, the impacts of exploring for and extracting fossil fuels can we engage in a serious and worthy evaluation of whether fracking can indeed provide a bridge to a sustainable energy future.

Tom Steyer

FutureResponsibilityBridgeEnergy

Unfortunately, in this country, when we have the opportunity to be bigots in private, we take it every time.

Rod Lurie

OpportunityTimeCountryTakeEvery

As a professional broadcaster, I can tell you that over the course of my career, there is an adage: don't ever apologize.

Rush Limbaugh

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My mother was not what anyone would call sweet, and she wasn't conventional. When my brother couldn't find his shoes one morning, she said, 'Oh, for God's sake, it won't kill him not to have shoes for a day,' and sent him to school without them.

Rosemary Mahoney

MotherMorningGodShoesDaySchool

I was so proud to have the Reagan name and to be Ronald Reagan's son. What a great honor.

Michael Reagan

SonGreatProudNameHonorReagan

The 'economy' became a god such as never before, and a happy, successful society was one that could please this god - sometimes by sacrificing beautiful things - to keep the deity from getting angry and harming the people by withdrawing favours.

Michael Leunig

GodBeautifulAngryHappyPeople

When you make a movie, you do it so piecemeal. You're doing it, not only scene by scene, out of order, but shot by shot, line by line. And there's this idea that the director has the whole thing in his or her head and they're going to somehow weave it all together in the end.

Jason Reitman

TogetherEndDoingYouLineHead

Documentaries - my God, there is so much going on in our country and in the world today that every time you open the newspaper or turn on the radio or watch the news on TV there is another documentary subject. We're getting the headlines for a second, shaped by corporate delivery most of the time, but what's really the story there?

Jonathan Demme

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I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her.

Cheryl Strayed

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