Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes

Does a little fish, swimming though the net's eye, suffer from inferiority complex?

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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• There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like Laurence Olivier. So it's very flattering to be in their company.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Company

• I think about terrorism in terms of popcorn. You can't tell which kernels are popcorn and which are not, but you assume you'll always have some kernels that are going to pop.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Think
  • You
  • Terrorism

• Let me make a solemn pledge before all of you, before the whole world and before God, that I will devote all my energy and all I possess in my power to serve the people of Nigeria and humanity.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • People
  • World
  • God

• Once I'm in a situation where I can not do anything for three years and go off the map, I'll focus more on writing. Right now, I want to just make Flume awesome... and big.

  

  Flume
  • Writing
  • Focus
  • Awesome

• I never forbid myself anything.

  

  Ieva Laguna
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Anything

• Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Travel

• Refinancing your mortgage usually makes sense if you can lower your interest rate by at least two points. But the most important question to ask yourself is, how long will it take you to break even?

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Long
  • Important
  • Question

• Idiots. They were losing everything because of their short-sightedness. Maybe they deserved to lose it.

  

  Karl Schroeder

• Evolution explains our biological evolution, but human beings are very unique creatures. As the Dobzhansky said, all animals are unique; humans are the uniquest. And that uniqueness of being human, language, art, culture, our dependency on culture for survival, comes from the combination of traditional biological evolution.

  

  Donald Johanson
  • Art
  • Culture
  • Unique

• I had earlier concluded that a war with Iraq would be a distraction from the successful and expeditious completion of our aims in Afghanistan. Now I had come to question whether the White House was telling the truth.

  

  Bob Graham
  • Truth
  • War
  • House

• Hollywood is a boys' club, and that's something I thought was a stereotype - and it's not. That really shocked me. Still shocks me. Everyone's helping their buddies out and pressing their buddies and playing tennis with their buddies and making movies with their buddies, and that grosses me out.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • Tennis

• Orwell had a very accurate foresight of today's dystopian world we live in. If only he was around to see it.

  

  Andrew Gower
  • World
  • Live
  • Today

• I'm really bad at memorizing, so that's one of my big struggles in an audition setting, with the lines.

  

  Matt Lanter
  • Bad

• I don't want a lot of bureaucracy... I want to run state government the same way we run a campaign - efficient, effective and victorious.

  

  Charlie Crist

• After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor.

  

  Lynne Truss
  • Job

• I tell directors, 'I can't promise you a hit, but I can promise you the movie is going to be yours.' When you work for a studio, they pay you a lot of money, but in exchange for that, they tell you what to do.

  

  Jason Blum
  • Work
  • Money
  • Movie

• I actually get a metallic taste in my mouth when I think about electric music.

  

  Keith Jarrett
  • Music

• The important thing is to write when your brain is at its best. Work edits or do outside reading with the rest of the day.

  

  Douglas Brunt
  • Work
  • Important
  • Reading

• Perhaps, when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Knowledge
  • Explanation
  • Powers

• Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Life
  • Running
  • Stop

• We cannot define anything precisely. If we attempt to, we get into the paralysis of thought that comes to philosophers, who sit opposite each other, one saying to the other, "You don't know what you are talking about!" The second one says, "What do you mean by know? What do you mean by talking? What do you mean by you?"

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Mean
  • Talking
  • Philosopher

• In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.

  

  Edgar Meyer
  • Me
  • Honesty
  • Embarrassment

• I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the characters, with their plights and their issues.

  

  Faran Tahir
  • People
  • Think
  • Science

• Does a little fish, swimming though the net's eye, suffer from inferiority complex?

  

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
  • Swimming
  • Complex
  • Inferiority