Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes

You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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• I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Small
  • Very
  • Feet

• The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • House
  • Day
  • Road

• The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Country
  • Stop
  • Drug

• I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • People
  • Writing
  • Internet

• Isn't the purpose of bitcoin mining simply to get rich - or not, as the case may be? Well, at 21, we are less concerned with bitcoin as a financial instrument and more interested in bitcoin as a protocol - and particularly in the industrial uses of bitcoin enabled by embedded mining.

  

  Balaji S. Srinivasan
  • May
  • Purpose
  • Financial

• I used to think that the British press were particularly awful to Cherie Blair. I think Blair's foreign policy was a complete disaster, but the British press, when they wanted to explain why Blair took unexpected moves, they did create Cherie as the power behind the throne.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Why
  • Power

• High heels empower women in a way.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Women
  • High

• If you got problems like unemployment, Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare and there's a guy that's always been there for you and for your family, then you say 'He's a nice guy. I don't know where he came from or how long he's been here, but Charlie Rangel's the man.' That's what I'm relying on.

  Charles B. Rangel
  • Long
  • Family
  • Guy

• As a director, obviously you should challenge yourself. It's important, because it's this thing that takes you away from your family for years. You have to really love the thing you're doing. It's very important.

  

  James Bobin
  • Important
  • Family
  • Challenge

• Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.

  

  Marquis de Sade
  • Nature

• I want to be remembered for the work that I've done, rather than the car accidents that I've gotten into, the men that I've not dated - or the man that I have.

  

  Lindsay Lohan
  • Work
  • Men
  • Done

• My shows aren't about trying to save some place, because I don't feel that's the right venue for it. That's my politics right there: Don't bring politics to my shows.

  

  Robert James Ritchi
  • Trying

• Greeks are notorious for their potions. I wouldn't say I've used Windex, but there are so many tricks that have been handed down to me.

  

  Elena Kampouris

• I ran through most of college and ran through most of grad school. When I was writing my dissertation for my Ph.D., it was literally the only hour of the day that I wasn't working. It was nine months of torture, but I made sure I got out to run.

  

  Jane McGonigal
  • Writing
  • School
  • College

• St. Louis has a great startup scene and a vibrant business community.

  

  Brad Feld
  • Great
  • Business
  • Community

• They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a bath, but it does you good.

  

  Billy Sunday
  • Good

• Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.

  

  John Dryden

• You can only be lucky if you have a place to record.

  

  Edwin Starr

• If it's something quite low-key then I'll often do my own makeup. But for something like a premiere, it's good to have a makeup artist because they know what they're doing.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Good
  • Artist
  • Makeup

• Aggression is something that is a part of me, and I'm never going to take that out of my game.

  

  Dele Alli
  • Game

• I don't care what someone believes. I don't care what nationality they are. But if someone wants to get off drugs, I can help them. If someone wants to learn how to read, I can help them. If someone doesn't want to be a criminal anymore, I can give them tools that can better their life.

  

  Tom Cruise
  • Learn
  • Drugs
  • Believes

• I construct my memories with my present. I am lost, abandoned in the present. I try in vain to rejoin the past: I cannot escape.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Past
  • Lost
  • Present

• To attain the rank of grand master of memory, you must be able to perform three seemingly superhuman feats. You have to memorize 1,000 digits in under an hour, the precise order of 10 shuffled decks of playing cards in the same amount of time, and one shuffled deck in less than two minutes. There are 36 grand masters of memory in the world.

  

  Joshua Foer
  • World
  • Memories
  • Able

• You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories

  

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
  • Memories