Elias Canetti Quotes

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Elias Canetti

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: swiss
  • Birth: July 25, 1905 - August 13, 1994

Topics

ChildrenPracticeChildEnjoyFind

When I am on E! for the 'Fashion Police,' I only care about being a critic. It loses me many friends.

Joan Rivers

PoliceI AmMeFashionCareFriends

A lot of people who watch DVDs are people who are interested in, if not moviemaking, then creativity in general.

Robert Rodriguez

CreativityPeopleWatchInterested

I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading all textbooks I could get.

Robert Huber

SportsTimeLightMyselfSkiingGet

However, when my parents married in 1945, China was in turmoil and the possibility of returning grew increasingly remote, and they decided to begin their family in the United States.

Steven Chu

FamilyParentsReturningBeginChina

In the beginning, I thought mobile search was not much different from Web search. It's just a smaller screen, a slower speed; it's all the bad things. When I thought about mobile Internet, it's all the disadvantages.

Robin Li

BeginningThoughtSearchInternet

If we just sit and exist, and understand that, I think it will be helpful in a world that seems like a record that's going faster and faster, we're spinning off the edge of the universe.

Martin Scorsese

WorldThinkUniverseEdgeUnderstand

My father and mother were both doctors, yes.

Jay Chandrasekhar

FatherMotherYesDoctorsBothWere

We need to fix this. It hasn't been done yet because there's still a reluctance to admit that there was even a problem - anywhere above seven rogue soldiers who got out of control on the night shift.

Janis Karpinski

ControlNightProblemAdmitDone

I felt like a loser. I was unhappy as a child most of the time. We were terribly poor and I hated my size.

Don Knotts

TimeChildUnhappyLoserPoorSize

My Pa always said, 'Live fast, die laughing,' that's the way to do it.

Doug McClure

LiveDieFastSaidWayAlways

You have to remember that although Gandhi and Churchill only met physically once, their paths crossed again and crossed again all over the globe, from London and South Africa and India and back to London. In fact, I discovered that during the Boer War in 1899 they literally passed yards from each other on the battlefield.

Arthur L. Herman

WarRememberYouPathsBackIndia

My children, twins who are three years old, they're awful creatures right now.

Timothy Simons

ChildrenNowThreeOldRightTwins

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