Elias Canetti Quotes

There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.

Elias Canetti

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TodayDeathUglyMeLanguageEarth

You don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out you can't see any stars living in the city. I studied some light-pollution maps, and knew I'd have to get out of San Antonio.

Jimmy Walker

StarsCityYouLivingSeeRocket

New York is for everybody; it's for the poor, it's for the middle-class, it's for the wealthy. We can't punish any one group and chase them away.

John Catsimatidis

New YorkNewGroupPoorAwayChase

You can't take care of charity unless you take care of yourself first.

Robert Kiyosaki

YourselfCareCharityTake CareYou

I was raised, myself, by extremely strict but also extremely loving Chinese immigrant parents. To this day, I believe that their having high expectations for me, coupled with love, was the greatest gift that anyone's ever given me. And so that's why, even though my husband is not Chinese, I try to raise my own two daughters the same way.

Amy Chua

LoveMyselfDayParentsMeBelieve

It is never wise to discourage youthful idealism.

Stephen Kinzer

WiseNeverYouthfulIdealism

Since I was a boy - born into a farming family in Bonaire, GA - I've had agriculture running through my veins.

Sonny Perdue

FamilyAgricultureBornBoyFarming

My whole life, I've been a Temptation.

Dennis Edwards

LifeTemptationWholeBeen

We're trying to tell a very full story of 'Nashville' and these characters in Nashville, and I'm really hopeful that we're going to be able to do something as innovative as 'American Horror Story' and 'Friday Night Lights.' And I think so far, we're on the right path for that.

Connie Britton

PathNightStoryThinkFridayRight

In my book, I was trying to get into my own soul.

Claire Bloom

SoulBookTryingMy OwnOwnGet

It's an interesting and demanding art to do voices. I have been told so many times that I have a distinctive voice, but of course, I don't hear my own voice as others do, so I don't know.

Annie Potts

ArtVoiceInterestingKnowMy Own

At thirteen, I accompanied my mother to the Hawaiian Islands. There, for the first time, I saw the wonder of a steamship and the vastness of the ocean. From that time on, I was eager to acquire the knowledge of the West and to fathom the mysteries of nature.

Sun Yat-sen

NatureMotherKnowledgeTimeOcean

Our government depends upon the rule of law.

Scott Garrett

GovernmentLawRule Of LawRuleOur

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