Elias Canetti Quotes

Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.

Elias Canetti

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WordsPeopleOldSameOnlyUse

Praise the sea, on shore remain.

John Florio

SeaPraiseShoreRemain

Without our faith, we wouldn't have been able to succeed. On many occasions, before we'd go out on a sit-in, before we went on the freedom ride, before we marched from Selma to Montgomery, we would sing a song or say a prayer. Without our faith, without the spirit and spiritual bearings and underpinning, we would not have been so successful.

John Lewis

FaithFreedomRidePrayerSpiritual

It's the aspirations that capitalism is promoting as beautiful, positive attributes that are dangerous. All that is in the bedrooms of the poor and in the villages of the Third World, and it's like a cruel carrot that's being waved in front of people's noses. It's a seduction, an unattainable dream.

John Hillcoat

PositiveBeautifulPeopleWorldPoor

My dad taught me how to fish. When I am stand in a trout stream now, and I have the waders on, and I've got a fly rod in my hand, or I am fishing for bass, I think of sitting in a boat with my dad. How can that be a bad experience?

Matt Lauer

ExperienceFishingI AmMeFlyBoat

At a minimum, in explaining evolutionary pathways through time, the constraints imposed by history rise to equal prominence with the immediate advantages of adaptation.

Stephen Jay Gould

HistoryTimeRiseEqualThrough

Every audition that I walk out of where I think I nailed it, I never get that job, ever.

Sophie Turner

WalkJobThinkNeverOutGet

I've done everything from traditional yoga to Bikram yoga to Pilates.

Julia Hartz

DoneEverythingTraditionalYoga

A torn rotator cuff is a cancer for a pitcher and if a pitcher gets a badly torn one, he has to face the facts, it's all over baby.

Don Drysdale

BabyFaceFactsOverCancerPitcher

I am the young, edgy New Yorker.

Douglas Wilson

I AmNewYoungEdgyAmYorker

I believe one's responsibility as a role model begins and ends with their perception of what a good role model is.

Dove Cameron

GoodResponsibilityBelieveI Believe

I'm horrible at auditions anyway. Maybe that's why I never got anything.

Chris Colfer

WhyNeverAnythingGotHorrible

I think if an actor is right for a role, casting sees that, and the words that are on the page, depending on how it's written, can really help your character develop.

Scott Michael Foster

CharacterWordsThinkHelpPage

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