Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.
-
I'm interested in sites that help people find information and filter what's available. The Internet is so big that no one can stay on top of everything.
-
It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past - or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice, let us resolve to choose wisely.
-
I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.
-
All I can say is that I've always felt like a very old soul. When I was 3, I felt 60.
-
It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.
-
While watching him work on the set of the film based on my life - Patch Adams - I saw that whenever there was a stressful moment, Robin would tap into his improvisation style to lighten the mood of cast and crew.
-
You cannot be in pretend for people to like you.
-
I often say fame is kind of like a drug or like sugar: when it's controlling you it doesn't feel good at all.
-
For most of American history, of course, the important religious divides were between denominations - not just between Protestants and Catholics and Jews but between Lutherans and Episcopalians and Southern Baptists and the other endlessly fine-tuned sects.
-
Shakespeare is universal.
-
I don't think I'm unlike a lot of people. I am just someone who is trying to find that mate, and I think it's a really hard thing to do.
-
Comic books have a long, fraught history with sexism.
-
I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.
-
Only in very rare circumstances will you see something cut out of my first drafts. Maybe it's because of the way I write. I'm very focused on the logical progression of the story, and every character has a role to play.
-
I do listen to some music, but I don't technically have one band I'm absolutely hooked on.
-
The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?
-
It was strange to have no self-to be like a little boy left alone in a big house, who knew that now he could do anything he wanted to do, but found that there was nothing that he wanted to do.
-
A mind is so closely shaped by the body and destined to serve it that only one mind could possibly arise in it. No body, never mind.
-
We need three kinds of pitching: left-handed, right-handed and relief.
-
Whether you are a genius or an idiot, a thief or, like me, a Zen priest who has cultivated the mind for 30 years – the mind anyway is subject to conditions.
-
The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind's supreme luxury. In all those moments when we do our best, we do not work. Work is merely a means to these moments.
-
The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.
-
A man who is a genius and doesn't know it, probably isn't.
