Quotes by romanian authors

For me, cooking is an extension of love. Hedda Sterne

Love Me Cooking Extension

What makes me happy is the appreciation of people around me. Nadia Comaneci

Me Appreciation Happy People Around Makes

Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture. Emil Cioran

Paradise Torture Insomnia Itself Place Convert

Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them. Constantin Brancusi

Mind Difficult State Ourselves Putting Make Them Things

In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary. Emil Cioran

Tyrant Mental Stuff Order Certain Necessary

I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual. Emil Cioran

Best Possible Status Intellectual Nationality

Maybe that's why I like gymnastics - because I like to fly. Nadia Comaneci

Fly Gymnastics Like Because Maybe Why

Architecture is inhabited sculpture. Constantin Brancusi

Architecture Inhabited Sculpture

There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning. Constantin Brancusi

Art Beginning Been Any Just

I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that. Edward G. Robinson

Me Book First Reading Side East East Side Had Taking Advantage Over Another West West Side Submitted Just Story Script Gangster

Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all. Emil Cioran

Life Decision Futility Must Since Most Exist Irrational Then

Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves. Emil Cioran

Criticism Others Ourselves Must Misconception Read Understand

If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot. Emil Cioran

Others Ourselves Would Vanish See Could Spot Us

There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be. Emil Cioran

Proving Than Preferable Means

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed. Emil Cioran

Destroyed Only Civilization Gods

Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory. Emil Cioran

Life Memory Imagination Deficiencies Our Possible Only

I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers. Emil Cioran

Day Nothing Telegram Shall Read Prayers Foresee

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other. Emil Cioran

Language Country Other Fatherland Our Does Inhabit