Elias Canetti Quotes

A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.

Elias Canetti

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TimeManNothingDeadModernOff

To stay around any place you love, you have to have a job. In college at Georgetown in the fifties, I got my first theater job checking coats at the National, which was Washington's main theater.

John Guare

LoveJobCollegeYouPlaceFirst

If you are writing a story and trying to draw an audience to come and hear you tell it, it's got to in some way relate to them. Who wants to come and hear about your specific problems? It's not therapy - it's supposed to be a communal piece of entertainment.

Matt Damon

WritingStoryProblemsTryingYou

If I had to say the secret recipe for acting melodrama, I think it comes from myself in real life. I have a belief that when I do melo scenes, I try to make them less cheesy.

Song Joong-ki

LifeMyselfThinkActingSayBelief

I was burned out. I think I was just exhausted. It was a very intense five years. We didn't stop. It was constant touring, constant writing, recording.

Roger Andrew Taylor

WritingThinkStopYearsOutJust

I found the success of 'In a Dark, Dark Wood' really distracting when I was writing 'The Woman in Cabin 10,' but in a way, the fact that 'Cabin 10' was doing well felt quite freeing while I was writing 'The Lying Game.'

Ruth Ware

SuccessWomanWritingGameDoing

Naturally healthy soil can sustain coffee crops for generations to come. All of this contributes to the quality of the bean.

Rohan Marley

CoffeeQualityHealthySoilCome

I tell anyone who is willing to listen that auditioning is the hardest part. Once you get the job, you have the job. You can go to work. You learn your lines. You learn your character. With auditioning, you can have five in a week with different people.

Jazmyn Simon

WorkCharacterJobPeopleLearnYou

I don't care if the average guy on the street really knows what I'm like, as long as he knows I'm not really a mean, vicious guy. My friends and family know what I'm really like. That's what's important.

Don Rickles

FamilyFriends And FamilyCareLong

I just want a quiet life. I think that's what everybody says when they get older.

Cherie Lunghi

LifeThinkQuietWantGetJust

I played the trumpet a bit like a porker, I think.

Boris Vian

ThinkTrumpetLikeI ThinkPlayed

I think hip-hop is really fun right now... and that's why people are using dance beats and singing more.

Wiz Khalifa

DanceFunPeopleSingingThinkWhy

There were schools and hospitals who were ready to take people with undescribed injuries, but not necessarily ready to take people with severe radiation poisoning.

William Scranton

PeopleInjuriesReadyTakeRadiation

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