Cela Quotes

#1. Men spend their life down here in the worship of petty (or mean) interests and the search of perishable things, and with that ("et avec cela", Fr.) they pretend to perpetuate for all eternity their self ("moi", Fr.) so hardly worthy ("digne", Fr.) of it.

African Spir

#2. A familiar Gusism was to greet a friend with 'Hello, don't be a cunt all your life.

Keith Richards

#3. When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.

Camilo Jose Cela

#4. I am not, sir, a bad person, though in truth I am not lacking in reasons for being one.
[Sp., Yo, senor, no soy malo, aunque no me faltarian motivos para serlo.]

Camilo Jose Cela

#5. Let's dispense with the preliminary round of 'will we or won't we' so we can get down to the when will we.

Amanda Usen

#6. In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

Georges Jacques Danton

#7. Chacun exige d'e" tre innocent, a' tout prix, me" me si, pour cela, il faut accuser le genre humain et le ciel. Everyone insists on his or her innocence, at all costs, even if it means accusing the rest of the human race and heaven.

Albert Camus

#8. There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.

Camilo Jose Cela

#9. On the hinder slope of the hill two little goatherds are tending a flock of goats; one of them is sitting on a rock whittling a crook out of ash, while the other is trying to coax a few tweets out of a reed flute.

Camilo Jose Cela

#10. If I could be the "condom queen" and get every young person who engaged in sex to use a condom in the United States, I would weara crown on my head with a condom on it! I would!

Joycelyn Elders

#11. I really make sure that my girls understand the importance of education. I don't want them to be spoilt and only know private school kids. I want them to behave well by example.

Wendi Deng Murdoch

#12. Even in the Future the Story Begins with Once Upon a Time.

Marissa Meyer

#13. To surround yourself with beauty isn't frivolous. It's a necessity. If it weren't, then our cities would not be surrounded with art museums and parks.

Charlotte Symonds

#14. But I'd better not go to fast in my story, for all things want their order, and no matter how early one gets up, dawn doesn't come any sooner.

Camilo Jose Cela Conde

#15. That's the key to success, isn't it? It has to be fun.

Monica Seles

#16. I'm not made to philosophize, I don't have the heart for it. My heart is more like a machine for making blood to be spilled in a knife fight...

Camilo Jose Cela

#17. Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.

Camilo Jose Cela

#18. Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.

Camilo Jose Cela

#19. Virginia was not quite fourteen when Harry Edgar possessed her. He gave her lessons in algebra. Je m'imagine cela. They spent their honeymoon at Petersburg, Fla. "Monsieur Poe-poe," as that boy in one of Monsieur Humbert Humbert's classes in Paris called the poet-poet.

Vladimir Nabokov