Cyril Connolly Quotes

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.

Cyril Connolly

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: September 10, 1903 - November 26, 1974

Topics

PeopleSmallCivilizationNeedOut

I like to shock people.

Jo Brand

PeopleLikeShock

Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions.

Steve Hackett

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American intelligence and military agencies have a huge footprint in terms of how the world works, but they're largely invisible. I'm interested in exploring those 'geographies' of secrecy from many different angles: political, legal, economic, spatial, etc., because I am fundamentally just interested in how the world works and how societies work.

Trevor Paglen

WorkIntelligenceI AmWorldLegal

Creating artworks, writing and publishing novels, poetry, music, or conducting art-historical research requires support. So does everything else in the world, from physics to fish and wildlife management to human-rights advocacy.

Trevor Paglen

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I'm entirely uneducated. I went to public school - public in the American sense - a blue-collar, working-class school. I never got a scholarship, I left when I was 15, never did any exams.

Rupert Graves

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I adore gelato; it's a pleasure I shared for years with my friend Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Monica Vitti

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I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.

Jules Renard

ManFinanceFinancialKnowFinally

If the destination is heaven, why do we scramble to be first in line for hell?

Douglas Horton

DestinationHellHeavenWhyFirst

The crew knew because they had heard from other people, and when I showed up on the set the next day, they were all looking at me kind of weird. I told them that Bill always taught me that whenever something bad like that happens, the best thing to do is work.

Brandon Cruz

WorkBestDayPeopleMeLooking

I love the simplicity, the ingredients, the culture, the history and the seasonality of Italian cuisine. In Italy people do not travel. They cook the way grandma did, using fresh ingredients and what is available in season.

Anne Burrell

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There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

Winston Churchill

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It's tiring to be asked the same questions all day long: 'What is Gangnam style?' and 'Teach me how to dance.'

Psy

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