Famous Quotes & Sayings

Camilo Jose Cela

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

Carter Burwell

I like business and personal life to be distinct.

Elizabeth Bibesco

Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

Aldous Huxley

Henri IV's feet and armpits enjoyed an international reputation.

Steve Carlton

I took it personal. I got slammed quite a bit.

Vaclav Havel

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.

Serge Lang

Axiomatization is what one does last, it's rubbish. It's the hygiene of mathematics, axiomatization.

Ravi Shankar

Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.

Theodor Adorno

So the experience of death is turned into that of the exchange of functionaries, and anything in the natural relationship to death that is not wholly absorbed into the social one is turned over to hygiene. In being seen as no more than the exit of a living creature from the social combine, death has been domesticated: dying merely confirms the absolute irrelevance of the natural organism in face of the social absolute.

Caroline Gordon

There are other great writers who are not read properly in their own day for the reason, perhaps, that their readers are not yet born. What they have to say to their own generation is said so at cross-purposes and with such apparent irrelevance that it is not understood. They are, as it were, giants who tower above their own age to cast their shadows across the next.

Elizabeth Bowen

The most striking fault in work by young or beginning novelists, submitted for criticism, is irrelevance--due either to infatuation or indecision. To direct such an author's attention to the imperative of relevance is certainly the most useful--and possibly the only--help that can be given.

Aldous Huxley

An irrelevance, and your life's altered.

Aldous Huxley

To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance.

Ian Mcewan

one could drown in irrelevance.

Gary Hamel

Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance.

Elizabeth Kenny

His response was remarkable for its irrelevance, if for nothing else.

Os Guinness

By our uncritical pursuit of relevance we have actually courted irrelevance; by our breathless chase after relevance without a matching committment to faithfulness, we have become not only unfaithful, but irrelevant; by our determined efforts to redefine outselves in ways that are more compelling to the modern world than are faithful to Christ, we have lost not only our identity but our authority and our relevance. Our crying need is to be faithful as well as relevant

Eric Schmidt

Within search results, information tied to verified online profiles will be ranked higher than content without such verification, which will result in most users naturally clicking on the top (verified) results. The true cost of remaining anonymous, then, might be irrelevance.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Nothing's easier to talk about than surrendering ourselves and dying on the Cross. Nothing's harder than actually doing it.

Edith Sitwell

I'm dying, but otherwise I'm in very good health.

David Brainerd

All my desire was the conversion of the heathen... I declare, now I am dying, I would not have spent my life otherwise for the whole world.

Audre Lorde

What is there possibly left for us to be afraid of, after we have dealt face to face with death and not embraced it? Once I accept the existence of dying as a life process, who can ever have power over me again?

Derek Jarman

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying.

Carlos Castaneda

The dying sun will glow on you without burning, as it has done today.

Charlotte Bronte

Oh, I am not going to die, am I? He will not separate us, we have been so happy.

Charles M. Schulz

I'm dying and all I hear are insults!

Bernard of Clairvaux

Death is the gate of life.