Marketa Irglova Quotes

Whatever I hear in my head is what I play.

Marketa Irglova

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• I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Up
  • High
  • See

• If you have ever driven around London and seen the amount of one way systems... they basically rubbed out all car chase crime. In fact, if you get bank robberies in the U.K., they're using scooters.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Car
  • London
  • Bank

• Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Up
  • Want
  • You

• I never said half the things I said.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Never
  • Said
  • Half

• The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Beginning
  • Lies
  • End

• A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Hope
  • Team
  • Fire

• I was born in Clinton, Mississippi, which had 1,500-2,500 people when I was growing up - a village.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Think
  • Anger

• Because of a great love, one is courageous.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Great
  • Love
  • Courageous

• Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Books
  • Public
  • Quarrels

• Do you remember any instance where tyranny was destroyed and freedom established on its ruins, among a people possessing so small a share of virtue and public spirit? I recollect none, and this more than the British arms makes me fearful of final success, without a reform.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • People
  • Remember
  • Success

• Being an actress my whole life, it feels so good to have a clean face when I'm off, so I'm not a big makeup wearer.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Life
  • Good
  • Makeup

• I cannot step into any day without help. I have a fantastically engaged husband who is very present for his children and our family life. We've got a brilliant nanny, other help from parents-in-law, godparents, friends. Also, I've had incredible women around me in the business.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Life
  • Women
  • Children

• As a youth, I and most of the other smarter kids in school got picked on by bullies. I was a big guy - even at a young age - and would take the beatings for my friends, who were often smaller and scrawnier.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • School
  • Kids
  • Friends

• We must not be squeamish when we learn that a total of 17,000 have been shot. We are now duty bound to hold together, we who are gathered together here figure on Mr. Roosevelt's list of war criminals. I have the honour of being Number One.

  

  Hans Frank
  • War
  • Together

• When half the people believe one thing, and the other half another, it is usually safe to accept either opinion. The Democrats are as good as the Republicans, and the Catholics as good as the Protestants.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• No person under eighteen years of age should be allowed to take any vow or long-term commitment in association with Opus Dei.

  

  Basil Hume
  • Long
  • Age
  • Commitment

• Our song is the slamming screen door,Sneakin' out late, tapping on your window.When we're on the phone and you talk real slow'Cause it's late and your mama don't know.Our song is the way you laugh,The first date 'man, I didn't kiss her, and I should have.'And when I got home, before I said amenAsking God if he could play it again.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • God
  • Real
  • Home

• At first, Uniqlo was a casual chain on the back streets of Hiroshima. Then... we became a national brand in Japan. So, the next step is to become a global brand.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • First
  • Step
  • Brand

• I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Listening
  • Tired
  • Petty

• Life is neither to be wept over nor to be laughed at but to be understood.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Life is
  • Laughed
  • Wept

• I'd rather go to the dentist... but I'm going.

  

  Phil Gramm

• His words … like so many nimble and airy servitors trip about him at command.

  

  John Milton
  • Words

• Whatever I hear in my head is what I play.

  

  Marketa Irglova