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Unable Quotes by Jean Cocteau
- Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself,…
- An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
- The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
More Unable Quotes
- Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as… — Teresa of Avila
- The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism. — Irving Babbitt
- There is a large body of abolitionists in Clinton and Clark Counties in this state, and in Wayne County Indiana, that would… — Gamaliel Bailey
- I will barnstorm American living rooms. Mainstream media will be unable to ignore me, but more importantly they will be unable to… — Roseanne Barr
- Patriarchy is impotent and qualitatively unable to solve even the most simple problems in the cosmos such as picking up their own… — Roseanne Barr
- I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before… — Lynda Barry
- I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust. — Charles Baudelaire
- Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to… — Brendan Behan
- Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy. — Ambrose Bierce
- If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the… — William Jennings Bryan
- It's not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one. — Robert Capa
- A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun. — Thomas Carlyle