Jerzy Kosinski Quotes

Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort.

Jerzy Kosinski

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• In other restaurants you'll see employees signing to each other, since we also hire many deaf men and women.

  

  Carl Karcher
  • Men
  • Women
  • Employees

• I'm a big foodie and would love to indulge in such things. I've been to many restaurants in the city, and although I can't eat often, I know what's available where.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Love
  • Know
  • City

• I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Think
  • Talk
  • Colleagues

• I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Believe
  • Want
  • Liberty

• The divine wisdom which requires a division of labor has sown different abilities and tendencies in human nature and has enabled human beings to carry out the duty of establishing sciences and developing technology. The fulfillment of this duty is obligatory upon humanity as a whole, though not on every individual.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Different
  • Nature
  • Technology

• We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Know
  • Genes
  • Cells

• You don't do things right once in a while. You do things right all the time.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Time
  • You
  • Right

• The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Soul
  • Body
  • Diamond

• I grew up playing in youth orchestras, so they were my most treasured memories, so to be in front of an orchestra playing my own material would be incredible.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Up
  • Memories
  • Youth

• The magic of creation has always fascinated me.

  

  Ralph Allen
  • Always
  • Magic
  • Creation

• We're not going to do a Facebook game aimed at 35-year old women about farming.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Women
  • Game
  • Old

• My parents were in 'Brigadoon' on Broadway when I was a couple of years old.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Parents
  • Couple
  • Years

• As I go back and listen, the other girls weren't singing quite like I was.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Like
  • Singing
  • Listen

• I definitely tell things at arm's length but that is conscious. No part of me wants everybody to know what's going on.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Know
  • Part
  • Conscious

• A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Writing
  • Party
  • Picture

• While our military mission is narrowly focused on saving lives, we continue to pursue the broader goal of a Libya that belongs not to a dictator, but to its people.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Military

• They will have time enough, in those endless aeons, to attempt all things, and to gather all knowledge … no Gods imagined by our minds have ever possessed the powers they will command … But for all that, they may envy us, basking in the bright afterglow of Creation; for we knew the Universe when it was young.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Time
  • May
  • Knowledge

• With skill she vibrates her eternal tongue,Forever most divinely in the wrong.

  

  Edward Young
  • She
  • Forever

• I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.

  

  Albert Ellis
  • Up

• When we think about play and games and the situations in which having fun is seen as an outcome, they often have to do with repetition. You're returning to something again, and even despite that similarity, you squeeze something new out of it.

  

  Ian Bogost
  • Thinking
  • Fun
  • Games

• Know for a certainty that if men understood how terrible is even one solitary sin, they would rather be cast into a heated furnace, and there remain, living both in soul and body, than to support such a sight. And if the sea were all fire they would cast themselves therein and never leave it, if they were certain of meeting the sin on doing so.

  

  Catherine of Genoa
  • Soul
  • Support
  • Suffering

• My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference between right and wrong.

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Parents

• Happiness and sadness are just two eternal truths like day and night. A man of superior intellect is never affected by these emotions. They are not base emotions at all but a reflection of our thoughts, a reaction to our perspective on things we see, hear and do. Equanimity is not only desirable in a warrior, but a must. Without it, you are as good as dead in the battlefield.

  

  Anand Neelakantan
  • Happiness
  • Emotions
  • Sadness

• Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort.

  

  Jerzy Kosinski