Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. -Eugene Ionesco.
EUGENE IONESCO Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying t...
EUGENE IONESCO The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I ...
EUGENE IONESCO Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A ma...
EUGENE IONESCO Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their clich?s.
EUGENE IONESCO A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
EUGENE IONESCO The universe seems to me infinitely strange and foreign. At such a moment I gaze upon it with a mixt...
EUGENE IONESCO I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of ...
EUGENE IONESCO For me, it is as though at every moment the actual world had completely lost its actuality. As thoug...
EUGENE IONESCO There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize myth, distorts it, stops halfwa...
EUGENE IONESCO Realism, whether it be socialist or not, falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsi...
EUGENE IONESCO Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
EUGENE IONESCO Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
EUGENE IONESCO No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pai...
EUGENE IONESCO No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain ...
EUGENE IONESCO There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or id...
EUGENE IONESCO A civil servant doesn't make jokes.
EUGENE IONESCO I look out the chair while eating my pillow. I open the wall, I walk with my ears. I have ten eyes t...
EUGENE IONESCO Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
EUGENE IONESCO Often, alas, the most detestable kind of bourgeois is the anti-bourgeois kind of bourgeois.
EUGENE IONESCO You can only predict things after they've happened.
EUGENE IONESCO It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
EUGENE IONESCO Politics separate men by bringing them together only superficially. Art and culture unite us in a co...
EUGENE IONESCO Living is abnormal.
EUGENE IONESCO Perhaps I abandoned criticism because I am full of contradictions, and when you write an essay, you ...
EUGENE IONESCO When I was nine, the teacher asked us to write a piece about our village fete. He read mine in class...
EUGENE IONESCO Culture cannot be separated from politics. The arts, philosophy and metaphysics, religion and the sc...
EUGENE IONESCO Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions beco...
EUGENE IONESCO Marx was wrong; jealousy and pride, emotional forces, are just as responsible as hunger and necessit...
EUGENE IONESCO The critic should describe, and not prescribe.
EUGENE IONESCO You've always made the mistake of being yourself
EUGENE IONESCO The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I ...
EUGENE IONESCO A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind
EUGENE IONESCO Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been.
EUGENE IONESCO Describe a circle, stroke its back and it turns vicious.
EUGENE IONESCO The unpleasant thing about society today is nowadays is that there is a confusion between people and...
EUGENE IONESCO The universe seems to me infinitely strange and foreign. At such a moment I gaze upon it with a mixt...
EUGENE IONESCO Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches.
EUGENE IONESCO I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of ...
EUGENE IONESCO A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.
EUGENE IONESCO I've always been suspicious of collective truths.
EUGENE IONESCO A man with a soul is not like every other man.
EUGENE IONESCO You can only predict things after they have happened.
EUGENE IONESCO Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed in the light, out of the d...
EUGENE IONESCO A civil servant doesn't make jokes
EUGENE IONESCO Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.
EUGENE IONESCO You can only predict things after they've happened
EUGENE IONESCO I was born near Bucharest, but my parents came to France a year later. We moved back to Romania when...
EUGENE IONESCO I have the vanity to think that every play I have written is different from the previous ones. Yet, ...
EUGENE IONESCO Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vit...
EUGENE IONESCO Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, eveything that will be has been.
EUGENE IONESCO Woe betide the man who refuses to conform.
EUGENE IONESCO I've always been suspicious of collective truths.
EUGENE IONESCO Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questi...
EUGèNE IONESCO That's how we stay young these days: murder and suicide.
EUGèNE IONESCO I'll never waste my dreams by falling asleep. Never again.
EUGèNE IONESCO Bishops may often feel but cannot express the sting and throb of submitting themselves to Roman comm...
EUGENE KENNEDY Pope Benedict XVI's resignation is big on buzz but is not the stunning surprise claimed by many ...
EUGENE KENNEDY Reaganism as a political movement has enormous resources behind it and it seeks - through stagecraft...
EUGENE JARECKI The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and t...
EUGENE MCCARTHY One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that ...
EUGENE MCCARTHY Happiness hates the timid! So does science! - Strange Interlude, 1928.
EUGENE O'NEILL The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experi...
EUGENE O'NEILL The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy th...
EUGENE KENNEDY The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experi...
EUGENE O'NEILL It was natural to see the struggle for dignity for black people in America as a sister struggle of t...
EUGENE JARECKI Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
EUGENE O'NEILL I have had my dance with Folly, nor do I shirk the blame;
I have sipped the so-called Wine of Lif...
EUGENE O'NEILL If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ugly as t...
EUGENE O'NEILL The moon is bland in color. I call it shades of gray. You know, the only color we see is what we bri...
EUGENE CERNAN We are all dead men on leave.
EUGENE LEVINE All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing...
EUGENE FIELD His track record of pragmatism, depth and candor all speak to a person who would find the Tea Party ...
EUGENE JARECKI Virtue often trips and falls over the sharp edge of poverty.
EUGENE SUE Prom night can be a special night, if you let it be. I know you think it's for losers and something ...
EUGENE MIRMAN If you're at a party with more than five people named Chad, get the fuck out right away.
EUGENE MIRMAN I lay on the bowsprit, with the water foaming into spume under me, the masts with every sail white i...
EUGENE O'NEILL Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.
EUGENE O'NEILL Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to ...
EUGENE FIELD We are the party of all labor. The whole earth shall be ours to share. And every race and craft our ...
EUGENE POTTIER Mediocre people have an answer for everything and are astonished at nothing. They always want to hav...
EUGENE DELACROIX One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.
EUGENE O'NEILL A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet.
EUGENE FIELD Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
EUGENE DELACROIX When men make gods, there is no God!
EUGENE O'NEILL What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea -- possessing...
EUGENE DELACROIX A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.
EUGENE DELACROIX Happiness hates the timid! So does science!
EUGENE O'NEILL For a moment I lost myself, actually lost my life. I was set free! I belonged, without past or futur...
EUGENE O'NEILL Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and the second, t...
EUGENE DELACROIX Ordinary people think that talent must be always on its own level and that it arises every morning l...
EUGENE DELACROIX The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
EUGENE DELACROIX This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the ai...
EUGENE MCCARTHY I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. He it is who notes that ind...
EUGENE DELACROIX What torments my soul is its loneliness. The more it expands among friends and the daily habits or p...
EUGENE DELACROIX When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are ...
EUGENE DEBS All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You ...
EUGENE FIELD Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.
EUGENE O'NEILL While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; and while t...
EUGENE DEBS Getters don't get -- givers get.
EUGENE BENGE The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the g...
EUGENE MCCARTHY The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.
EUGENE DEBS I often found myself prefering the company of people outside my congregation, men and women who did ...
EUGENE PETERSON Life without a friend is death without a witness.
EUGENE BENGE Wynken, Blynken and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe-- Sailed on a river of crystal l...
EUGENE FIELD Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
EUGENE O'NEILL If by saying that all men are born equal, you mean that they are equally born, it is true, but true ...
EUGENE EDWARDS The biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away.
EUGENE FIELD If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ugly as...
EUGENE O'NEILL How gracious those dews of solace that over my senses fall At the clink of the ice in the pitcher ...
EUGENE FIELD When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred, He quoth, "A large cold bottle, and a small...
EUGENE FIELD Music is what feelings sound like.
EUGENE DELACROIX I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.
EUGENE DELACROIX Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game...
EUGENE MCCARTHY Am I willing to go to Mars? Yes, but I'm not willing to spend nine months getting there, then wa...
EUGENE CERNAN Ron Reagan amazingly qualifies as an honest broker. I asked him if he was a mama's boy and he sa...
EUGENE JARECKI Ronald Reagan's legacy is deeply misunderstood because there are political actors in America who...
EUGENE JARECKI Francis seems familiar because Catholics have already known him in the Vatican II priests who have b...
EUGENE KENNEDY Friendship is something whose depth fits human aspirations and fulfills human possibilities. It has ...
EUGENE KENNEDY The priesthood is not dying, but the clerical state is dead. It needs to be buried, preferably with ...
EUGENE KENNEDY Catholicism actually resembles a family that survives because even as it aspires to holiness, it und...
EUGENE KENNEDY The mystery of being human and, certainly, of being a Catholic lies in our embracing together the im...
EUGENE KENNEDY We don't have the capability today to put a human being in space of any kind, shape or form, whi...
EUGENE CERNAN This was more of a cartoonish thing for me and it kind of took me back to SCTV, in a way, where the ...
EUGENE LEVY No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.
EUGENE FIELD Most bullies are the product of a stressful and often abusive home life. Next time a bully threatens...
EUGENE MIRMAN No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardina...
EUGENE MCCARTHY People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings.
EUGENE CERNAN Some astronauts describe the routine flushing of urine into space, where the freezing temperatures t...
EUGENE CERNAN To become an astronaut, someone has to have a dream of his own to do something that he or she has al...
EUGENE CERNAN As dutiful bishops soon discover, authoritarianism, or control from the top down, characterizes the ...
EUGENE KENNEDY If you ask people what attracted them to the person they love, they never tell you of some perfect f...
EUGENE KENNEDY After Apollo 17, America stopped looking towards the next horizon. The United States had become a sp...
EUGENE CERNAN To me the arcade experience is the ultimate gaming experience.
EUGENE JARVIS In April, God speaks to us in the seas whose rhythmic murmuring fills our ears from a long way off. ...
EUGENE KENNEDY He played the King as though under momentary apprehension that someone else was about to play the ac...
EUGENE FIELD I do believe there is life in outer space. Mathematically, there has to be, and if you believe as I ...
EUGENE CERNAN State constitutions typically provide that the state first has to service its debt, then make it pen...
EUGENE FAMA Human experience resembles the battered moon that tracks us in cycles of light and darkness, of life...
EUGENE KENNEDY There would be no need for love if perfection were possible. Love arises from our imperfection, from...
EUGENE KENNEDY The source of genius is imagination alone, . . . the refinement of the senses that sees what others...
EUGENE DELACROIX The child was diseased at birth, stricken with a hereditary ill that only the most vital men are abl...
EUGENE O'NEILL I would love to work with Sir Anthony Hopkins. How and why that would happen in a comedy I'm not...
EUGENE LEVY Good priests never look for awards and, perversely enough in the clerical culture universe, do not r...
EUGENE KENNEDY The countdown reached ten seconds and I could almost hear an invisible crescendo of stirring backgro...
EUGENE CERNAN Mom was always doing something for somebody. She came from a Czech background, one that made her a d...
EUGENE CERNAN Debates go on to this day about what caused the Great Depression. Economics is not very good at expl...
EUGENE FAMA Today, we are on a path of decay. We are seeing the book close on five decades of accomplishment as ...
EUGENE CERNAN We went into darkness after being in daylight the whole time on the way to the Moon. And then we wen...
EUGENE CERNAN Ronald Reagan felt very great regret about the deficits to which he contributed on his watch.
EUGENE JARECKI I hold the world speed record downhill, in a Rover. I think it was 17 kilometers per hour, downhill.
EUGENE CERNAN I started using contact microphones that you can place on common, ordinary objects, like a rake. I p...
EUGENE CHADBOURNE Here I am at the turn of the millennium and I'm still the last man to have walked on the moon, s...
EUGENE CERNAN Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist...
EUGENE WIGNER Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the w...
EUGENE MCCARTHY Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the gam...
EUGENE MCCARTHY A taste for simplicity cannot last for long. -Eugene Delacroix.
EUGENE DELACROIX One of the most important things about the geology on the moon is your descriptions of what you see,...
EUGENE CERNAN What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the ...
EUGENE DELACROIX To know the value of generosity, it is necessary to have suffered from the cold indifference of othe...
EUGENE CLOUTIER What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - possessing ...
EUGENE DELACROIX Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder.... the working class who fight all...
EUGENE DEBS The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.
EUGENE MCCARTHY Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.
EUGENE DELACROIX Some tips for life: 1.Don't be afraid to follow your dreams, unless your dreams are stupid. 2.Be kin...
EUGENE MIRMAN It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
EUGENE MCCARTHY Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
EUGENE KENNEDY If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually not...
EUGENE DELACROIX I think I'm the only actor in the history of film who got to slap Sam Jackson on the face and butt a...
EUGENE LEVY is a look at what happens on a movie set when the word Oscar gets bandied about.
EUGENE LEVY 'American Pie' was a big movie for me. No one knew it at the time, but it allowed me to be offered s...
EUGENE LEVY I am the common man, ... I'm polite, I love my family and I play by the rules. And sometimes I get p...
EUGENE LEVY Detroit is still seen as the tough city, a city that has a reputation for high crime, ... The tough ...
EUGENE LEVY The thing that happens is that politicians run on tough-on-crime rhetoric. You appeal to the public ...
EUGENE JARECKI The truth of faith is a slender, glowing element that runs through even the seemingly ordinary and u...
EUGENE KENNEDY I am not a labor leader. I don't want you to follow me or anyone else. If you are looking for a Mose...
EUGENE DEBS They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to ...
EUGENE DEBS The people can have anything they want, the only problem is they do not want anything.
EUGENE DEBS Solidarity is not a matter of sentiment but a fact, cold and impassive as the granite foundations of...
EUGENE DEBS Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization.
EUGENE DEBS I would no more teach children military training than I would teach them arson, robbery, or assassin...
EUGENE DEBS Your honor, I ask no mercy, I plead for no immunity. I realize that finally the right must prevail. ...
EUGENE DEBS Perhaps the two greatest moments of my life were standing on the moon and being outside of the room ...
EUGENE CERNAN (Howard) had been throwing me curve balls because I hung with him earlier in the game. He had to com...
EUGENE EVANS I'm an action player. I like to be aggressive. I don't like to be on the run. I like to feel...
EUGENE JARVIS We found out the Gemini spacesuit was, well, oxygen was flowing to keep me cool as well as to breath...
EUGENE CERNAN How do you get there from here? They haven't persuaded me that this is valid, ... You have to have a...
EUGENE FIDELL There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.
EUGENE CHADBOURNE It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too.
EUGENE WIGNER It takes so long to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical probl...
EUGENE WIGNER The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences
EUGENE WIGNER The whole world feels that it knows Francis, not so much because he follows Francis of Assisi but be...
EUGENE KENNEDY Nobody can take those footsteps I made on the surface of the moon away from me.
EUGENE CERNAN Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game...
EUGENE MCCARTHY Hierarchical formulations died because their wedding cake levels posited a multiply fractured cosmos...
EUGENE KENNEDY The rebound indicates the market is not overbought. But the basic market leadership is still in tact...
EUGENE PERONI I don't mean to make you nervous, but unfortunately I have to.
EUGENE ORMANDY There is a similarity in the kinds of characters I gravitate to that goes back to my earliest years ...
EUGENE LEVY When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to t...
EUGENE O'NEILL at least provides some judicial review.
EUGENE FIDELL