Cendrars Quotes

#1. One's objective should be to get it right, get it quick, get it out and get it over. Your problem won't improve with age.

Warren Buffett

#2. Humanity lives in its fiction.

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#3. I'm not an extraordinary worker, I'm an extraordinary daydreamer. I exceed all my fantasies-even that of writing.

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#4. One's life, from being an exterior thing, grows inwards. Its intensity stays the same; and, d'you know, it's most mysterious, the corners in which the joy of living can sometimes hide away.

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#5. My poor life This shawl Frayed on strongboxes full of gold I roll along with Dream And smoke And the only flame in the universe

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#6. The only word in the Martian language is written phonetically:
Kay-ray-kh-kuh-ko-kex.
It means whatever you want it to mean.

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#7. Love everything around you as if everything is yours.

Debasish Mridha

#8. A writer should never install himself before a panorama, however grandiose it may be.

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#9. It is pitiful to see men putting their trust in something lower than themselves;

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#10. Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose dubious brightness falsifies everything, whose wick is in permanent danger of explosion, whose blinking illumination in the coal dust exhausts and corrodes your eyes.

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#11. The single fact of existing is already a true happiness.

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#12. I used the word 'prose' in the Trans-Siberian in the early Latin sense of prosa dictu. Poem seemed to me too pretentious, too narrow. Prose is more open, popular.

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#13. There are million countries which we will visit together.

Christine Minasian

#14. Children are a house's enemy. They don't mean to be - they just can't help it. It's their enthusiasm, their energy, their naturally destructive tendencies.

Delia Ephron

#15. A life that seems small on the outside can be limitless on the inside.

John Jackson Miller

#16. The wise stand out because they see themselves as part of the Whole. They shine because they don't want to impress. They achieve great things because they don't look for recognition. Their wisdom is contained in what they are, not their opinions. They refuse to argue, so no-one argues with them.

Laozi

#17. But me no buts, we're going to make whoopee, I tell you.

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#18. I have a real passion for many aspects of home lifestyle and beauty.

Rachel Roy

#19. Photogenic is a stupid, nonsensical word, but it is also a great mystery.

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#20. If one wants to live one is better to incline towards imbecility than intelligence, and live only in the absurd. Intelligence consists of eating stars and turning them into dung. And the universe, at the most optimistic estimate, is nothing but God's digestive system.

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#21. The best way to win is to play football

Josep Guardiola

#22. A mud-stained sunlight began to splatter the sodden fields, and the hateful, nasal world of birds began to come to life. It seemed to me that I was coming out of a suffocating nightmare and that the low clouds flying before the wind were the shreds of an evil dream.

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#23. Without the help of selfishness, the human animal would never have developed. Egoism is the vine by which man hoisted himself out of the swamp and escaped from the jungle.

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#24. Life The machine The human soul A 75mm breech My portrait

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#25. The people excited by ambitious demagogues, sooner or later return into the hands of the Aristocracy.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#26. A right to jury trial is granted to criminal defendants in order to prevent oppression by the Government.

Byron White

#27. Only a soul full of despair can ever attain serenity and, to be in despair, you must have loved a good deal and still love the world.

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#28. Writing is a noble privilege compared with the lot of most people, who live like parts of a machine, who live only to keep the gears of society pointlessly turning.

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#29. The guillotine is the masterpiece of the plastic arts
Its click
Creates perpetual motion
("The Head")

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#30. Half of Silicon Valley's got a little bit of autism.

Temple Grandin

#31. Science is history arranged according to the superstition and taste of the moment. The vocabulary of scholars has no wit, no salt. These heavy tomes have no soul, they are filled with distress ...

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#32. The only kind of reform usually possible is reform from within; a more intimate study and more intelligent use of the traditional forms.

George Santayana