Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes

The mob shouts with one big mouth and eats with a thousand little ones.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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• Scandinavia was awash with Maoism in the '70s. Sweden had Maoist groups with a combined membership and periphery of several thousand members, but it was Norway where Maoism became a genuine popular force and hegemonic in the culture.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Culture
  • Popular
  • Force

• It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Years
  • Baseball
  • Get

• The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Beautiful
  • Ugly
  • Thousand

• More idiots should just shut their mouths.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Mouths
  • Idiots
  • Shut

• The best time to start giving your children money is when they will no longer eat it. Basically, when they don't put it in their mouths, they can start putting it in their bank.

  

  Barbara Coloroso
  • Time
  • Children
  • Money

• Two seconds are a thousand years.

  

  Andre Kertesz
  • Years
  • Two
  • Thousand

• I want to touch with my mouth. His mouth, with my mouth. Maybe his neck, too. But first things first: Make him aware I exist. It’s possible that he is already aware, if only in a ‘don't step on the small girl’ kind of way.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Girl
  • Small
  • Crush

• You're almost always better off keeping your mouth shut, but don't let that stop you from popping off.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Stop
  • Mouths
  • Popping

• Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent!

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Goal
  • Goals
  • Achieve

• They think so small, they use small words. But not me, I'm smarter than that, I've worked it out. I'm stretching my mouth to let those big words come on out.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Thinking
  • Words
  • Small

• Lips to lips, mouth to mouth, Comes the speaker of the shrouds, Suck in the spirit, speak the words, Let secrets of the dead be heard.

  

  Yasmine Galenorn
  • Words
  • Secret
  • Lips

• Life is a story. Why do we die? Because we live. Why do we live? Because our Maker opened His mouth and began to tell a story.

  

  N.D. Wilson
  • Life
  • Live
  • Why

• Be forewarned,' the vamp said, 'if I learn that there's anything romantic happening here, I'm sending him packing...less a few body parts.' Kylie's mouth dropped open. 'Romantic? Oh, please, he's old. He's as old as you.' Burnett's brow creased. 'Which is my point.' His frown deepened. 'Not that I'm *that* old.

  

  Christie Craig
  • Body
  • Romantic
  • Said

• The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Intelligent
  • Brave
  • Thousand

• Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Things
  • Results
  • Thousand

• Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Men
  • Honest
  • Mouths

• A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect.

  

  William Petty
  • Soul
  • Effects
  • Thousand

• A thousand kisses buys my heart from me; And pay them at thy leisure, one by one.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heart
  • Pay
  • Kissing

• You say my name like a lover, so soft, so sweet. I want to lick the word from your lips, sip the exhaled breath from your mouth. I want to possess you utterly. Right now. Right here.

  

  Elizabeth Hoyt
  • Sweet
  • Names
  • Lovers

• I don't want dead paint, so I test many of my works by studying them in a dark room at twilight or even after dark to check the luminosity. If the darker forms still have resonance and luminosity, I know the painting's working.

  

  Will Barnet
  • Dark
  • Working
  • Paint

• One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn't know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Life
  • Family
  • Friends

• One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Emotions
  • Devices
  • Rhyme

• The mob shouts with one big mouth and eats with a thousand little ones.

  

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
  • Mouths
  • Thousand