Adam Mickiewicz Quotes

My heart stopped, my breast frozen, my lips and eyes barred. Still in the world, but not of the world. Here, yet already departed.

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• In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Time
  • Enemy
  • River

• Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Pain
  • Makes
  • Chicken

• I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.

  

  Patrick Wang
  • Time
  • Find
  • Strange

• Humor is an antidote to all ills.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Humor
  • Antidote
  • Ills

• Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.

  

  Vanessa Redgrave
  • People
  • Feelings
  • Shakespeare

• I wasn't a great debater.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Great

• As a gay person, my life has been marginalized.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Life
  • Gay
  • My Life

• We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Home
  • War
  • New

• I consider myself a progressive. I have a passion for people who work. To me, this is about forward looking versus backward looking. Ideological gradations are the wrong way to look at it.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • People
  • Work
  • Passion

• I was like, 'Josh Tillman, you are not a songwriter. You are an ape. Stop thinking of yourself as a songwriter.'

  

  J. Tillman
  • Thinking
  • You
  • Stop

• As far as rap, I was more of a Mobb Deep guy rather than a Tribe guy.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Guy
  • Deep
  • Rap

• You may stifle your creativity by learning too much about processes that should be spontaneous and automatic.

  

  Damon Knight
  • May
  • You
  • Learning

• It was cold and clammy in the stone cell; they called it the 'cooler,' and used it to reduce the temperature of the violent and intractable. It was a trouble-saving device; they just left the man there and forgot him, and his own tormented mind did the rest.

  

  Upton Sinclair
  • Mind
  • Rest
  • Cold

• I walked into a gunfight with a knife to kill you, and cut you so fast when your blood spilled it was still blue.

  

  Eminem
  • Blue

• Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline?

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Mind
  • Discipline

• The 20th century has been a badly written drama, from the beginning. The opposite of a Greek drama. Act one: Greed and hypocrisy leading to a genocidal world war, a boom, a crash, totalitarianism. Act two: Greed and hypocrisy leading to a genocidal world war, a boom, a crash, totalitarianism. Act three: Greed and hypocrisy … I don't dare continue.

  

  Leonard Bernstein
  • World
  • War
  • Beginning

• Natura d'ogni cosa più possente.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.

  

  Anton Chekhov

• I remember returning to Bangalore after a few months of travel and seeing it as a first-world city, like New York or San Francisco. This may be obvious to some people, but I grew up in Delhi, and I had no experience of how someone from a 'Tier 2' city may view a 'Tier 1' city. You really do emigrate between worlds when you come from those towns.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• «I work a day 12 hours 40 minutes.»

  

  Mariano Rajoy
  • Work

• I think as any artist you always want to grow; you always want to get better.

  

  Brad Garrett

• It's a great atmosphere, and I'm glad we stole a win from them.

  

  Bobby Frasor
  • Win
  • Atmosphere
  • Stole

• I got a massive overdose of gamma radiation from the Xerox machine and just printing call sheets, you know? By the time I stepped in front of the camera, I was very comfortable. It was great.

  

  Cary Elwes
  • Cameras
  • Machines
  • Radiation

• My heart stopped, my breast frozen, my lips and eyes barred. Still in the world, but not of the world. Here, yet already departed.

  

  Adam Mickiewicz
  • World
  • Heart
  • Lips