Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes

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• I need a hobby, and I don't want it to be basketball. I want it to be music. So to get away from music, I do other music.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Music
  • Want
  • Basketball

• I never met a Jesuit before I applied for the order.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Never
  • Order
  • Before

• For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Man
  • Flower
  • Bird

• When I was a kid I used to scoot under the table, and whenever company would come around you know or my sisters or parents would tell me, go under the table and I'd do it because it was entertainment for the family or aunts or whatever. And one time at the Paramount when I first did it, you know, Brooklyn Paramount, I did it in the act during an instrumental and it got a big ovation and so I coined it as one of the things I should do in the act. And since I've been doing it.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Time
  • Family
  • Kids

• Be cool and you'll be alright. That's rock & roll religion.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Cool
  • Rock
  • Rocks

• God is forgiving or we would not still be walking this world. But to be moral is not to need his divine forgiveness, I think.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • World
  • God
  • Moral

• When I was a kid in New York I used to go to the zoo. I always liked the zoo. I grew up within walking distance of the Bronx Zoo. And then when my first two children were young, I used to take them to the zoo. Zoos are always interesting. And I make pictures.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Up
  • Children
  • Kids

• It's the ugly things I notice more, because other people tend to ignore the ugly things.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • People
  • Ugly
  • Ignore

• Addiction is a symptom of not growing up. I know people think it's a disease... If you have a brain tumor, if you have cancer, that's a disease. To say that an addiction is a disease is not fair to the real diseases of the world.

  

  Bruce Anthony Johannesson
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Trying
  • Mistake
  • Inspiring

• As a rule, with me an unfinished [idea] is a thing that might as well be rubbed out. It's better, if there's something good in it that I might make use of elsewhere, to leave it at the back of my mind than on paper in a drawer. If I leave it in a drawer it remains the same thing but if it's in the memory it becomes transformed into something else.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Good
  • Mind

• The big, shoe-thumping fellow continues as a dark thunderhead to threaten all unrepentant non-Communists with hail and thunder.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Dark
  • Shoes
  • Communism

• Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Modern
  • Heroes
  • Delightful

• The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Mirror
  • Rejection
  • Realism

• Put an end to so great an evil and arrive at a peace settlement whatever the outcome, and whatever the conditions.

  

  William of Tyre
  • War
  • Evil
  • Ends

• You say, "But He has not answered." He has, He is so near to you that His silence is the answer. His silence is big with terrific meaning that you cannot understand yet, but presently you will.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Silence
  • Answer
  • Silence Is

• I mean, Lady Gaga is trying to be a freak or whatever but that quality of being very meaningly and heartfelt, but also having a sense of humor about it, bands don't do that anymore. Lady Gaga's songs are cheesy. The Beatles weren't cheesy. That's the hardest thing with music: to not be cheesy, but also be meaningful. That's the goal, I think.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Quality

• Sam Lessin, project manager at Facebook, suggests, “We as a species in the last few decades have gotten three new superpowers. . . . We can literally remember anything, we can talk to anyone on earth instantly for free, and we can process huge amounts of data.

  

  Craig Detweiler
  • Remember
  • Process
  • Talk

• Come on baby, light my fire Try to set the night on fire...

  

  Robby Krieger The Doors
  • Night
  • Light
  • Fire

• At the beginning there was the Word; at the end just the Cliche.

  

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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