Frederic Chopin Quotes

My manuscripts sleep, while I cannot, for I am covered with poultices.

Frederic Chopin

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• I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Human
  • Logic
  • Hopeless

• I don't eat any dairy products at all, usually - it's a self-imposed ban. I've done it for a year now, since I was ill, but it's so hard.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Done
  • Now
  • Products

• I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Watch
  • Him
  • Watched

• I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Look
  • Jump
  • Step

• History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.

  

  Babasaheb
  • History
  • Victory
  • Conflict

• My job was to build, and that's still my job - and I like that better than interviews.

  

  A. James Clark
  • Job
  • Like
  • Better

• My standup is observational, but it's self-observational, and it's self-deprecating, definitely.

  

  Chelsea Handler

• Now, metaphorically, I sit at any table that I want. I can sit with the jocks, I can sit with the gang members, I can sit with the politicians, I can sit with the CEOs. My brand can fit anywhere.

  

  Karen Civil
  • Gang

• The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.

  

  Arthur Keith
  • Life

• I was not a particularly brave child, I think, because I had a narrative mind, because my mind automatically went to any terrible thing that could happen.

  

  Daniel Handler
  • Mind
  • Brave

• I love actors, and I love the casting process. It's funny, like, some writers don't like actors because, I think, they are the faces of the show, and so you feel sort of secondary, but I love actors because they elevate the material; they make it better.

  

  Bryan Fuller
  • Funny

• Some of us don't have the energy to be as incredible and riotous and fantastic as Emma Thompson. You're constantly just lapping up her incredible hilariousness.

  

  Alice Englert
  • Up
  • Energy

• There's a lot of writing in television that can sound like it's taken out of a package, and the way to get around that is to not allow yourself to deliver it that way.

  

  Ben Bass
  • Writing
  • Taken

• Football is inherently dangerous, and that will never change.

  

  Chris Borland
  • Football

• A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line.

  

  Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III
  • Up
  • Real
  • True

• For me, 'I Can't Make You Love Me' is one of the most brilliantly-written songs ever.

  

  Matthew Ramsey Old Dominion

• We are on our way to blockchains as the fabric of society - the system for what we own (assets), who we are (identity), how we make decisions (governance), and more in an increasingly digital world. It's going to be a wild ride.

  

  Fred Ehrsam
  • World
  • Society
  • Identity

• I tell people: walk around for one month and write down three problems in your life every day. At first it's easy - you got stuck in traffic, you missed your alarm - but by the end of the month you're looking really hard to get your 90 problems. The most common things on your list are now billion-dollar businesses.

  

  Jay Samit
  • People
  • Life

• Ideas without precedent are generally looked upon with disfavor and men are shocked if their conceptions of an orderly world challenged.

  

  J Harlen Bretz
  • World
  • Men
  • Ideas

• I'm not a political comic at all, so it would be weird if I just turned into a preachy, sort-of political commentator.

  

  Lisa Lampanelli
  • Political
  • Weird

• We really didn't devote a lot of time to investigating the scariest aspects of our flight. It was more challenging and productive to concentrate on the remedies, and leave things that couldn't be solved to happen without thinking about them. There is a morbid human curiosity associated with tragic death-producing events. Though naturally, this needs to be kept in perspective.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Death

• He's always been tough on me, but I've had to figure out when he's being a coach and when he's being a dad. Once I figured that out, it was much easier. It's definitely tough, something that took years to figure out. Just knowing he was looking for what's best for me, not just yelling at me as a parent. It took maturity.

  

  Jalen Brunson
  • Dad
  • Maturity

• Once you wake up the human animal, you can't put it back to sleep again.

  

  Studs Terkel
  • Sleep
  • Animal

• My manuscripts sleep, while I cannot, for I am covered with poultices.

  

  Frederic Chopin
  • Sleep
  • Manuscripts
  • Poultices