Adam Zagajewski Quotes
A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all. He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.
Adam Zagajewski
Quotes to Explore
Detention without trial is history in Malaysia.
Najib Razak
Equality is the heart and essence of democracy, freedom, and justice, equality of opportunity in industry, in labor unions, schools and colleges, government, politics, and before the law. There must be no dual standards of justice, no dual rights, privileges, duties, or responsibilities of citizenship. No dual forms of freedom.
A. Philip Randolph
It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't.
Ernest Hemingway
I am a Lutheran astrologer, I throw away the nonsense and keep the hard kernel.
Johannes Kepler
Playfullness is the essential feature of productive thought.
Albert Einstein
A lack of patience in trifling matters might lead to the disruption of great project.
Confucius
Could the best and kindest of us who depart from the earth have an opportunity of revisiting it, I suppose he or she (assuming that any Vanity Fair feelings subsist in the sphere whither we are bound) would have a pang of mortification at finding how soon our survivors were consoled.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Thy best of rest is sleep, And that thou oft provok'st; yet grossly fear'st Thy death, which is no more.
William Shakespeare
Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.
William Winwood Reade
Performing is about developing empathy, which leads us to a broader view of the world and encourages us to develop compassion; so we can comfort each other and not be so brutal with each other.
Willem Dafoe
One of the most insane environments I have ever spent time in is a gun range. There we are, all in a line, armed to the teeth, firing away.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
I thought, 'you're on tour leading a crazy life right now, but you've just asked me to make an album and I'm going to hold you to that'. He was really encouraging, which is nice because I doubt myself often.
Isobel Campbell
Belle and Sebastian