top of page
.png){kind=small}
Being Quotes
"All kinds of celebrities, political ones as well, are increasingly being targeted. In this country, with all the countless guns."
36
"And there are certain things, and they are evident, obviously, without being boring about it, but I mean obviously, the two evident and easy ones being Gandhi and Cry Freedom, there are things which I do care about very much and which I would like to stand up and be counted."
36
"I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person."
36
"I don't like to think about being an influence. It's embarrassing."
36
"I think there is something a little too self conscious about enjoying being an outsider."
36
"We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line."
36
"Just by being out you're doing your part. It's like recycling. You're doing your part for the environment if you recycle; you're doing your part for the gay movement if you're out."
36
"There is no magic person out there, no perfect human being out there waiting for you."
36
"I'd never try to be that distinctive from the Bee Gees' sound. I'm very proud of being a Bee Gee and am always aware that I'll be identified as a Bee Gee."
36
"I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings."
36
"It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive."
36
"We launch when we're kind of in the same orbit that they are in terms of being matched up in inclination in space, and we're just in a little different altitude."
36
"The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free."
36
"If I had my way everyone would have a psychiatrist. When the brain is sick and you must throw up, you do it by being purged in a psychiatrist's office."
36
"But you know you haven't done it all because you know everything keeps evolving and changing; and you know you can evolve with it if you grow and develop as a human being."
36
"The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it."
36
"Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free."
36
"To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in a cellar. One is abandoned by all. They have slammed the door and are gone. One does not see anything and notices only the damp smell of putrefaction."
36
"When you're watching Psycho, there' s that moment when you have a visceral reaction to watching someone being stabbed. And then you have the intellectual revelation that you're not, and that's where the celebration comes in."
36
"Me, I'd prefer to have a good reputation rather than getting press for being scandalous, getting drunk in public, staying out late and so on."
36
"Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly."
36
"There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged."
36
"Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations."
36
"Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep."
36
"The job of training an Iraqi police force is one of the most important tasks being undertaken in Operation Iraqi Freedom. It is also one of the most difficult."
36
"But I always wound up being the damn John, when I wanted to be the Paul."
36
"Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore."
36
bottom of page