Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!
Quotes to Explore
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.
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What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
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I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.
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There's layers to our stuff: Our top layer is like candy-coated pop, because we want to party and have a nice time, but we also have a lot of different human experiences and other levels present in the Die Antwoord experience.
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I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.
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Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.
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Since the dawn of recorded music, every generation has felt shocked by the musical tastes of the next.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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Luckily, I have been offered the chance to play a South American, Hispanic and even a character from the Middle East in films. There are also a lot of TV series in the U.S. that have a strong presence of actors from India.
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Your subconscious's goal is to recreate unresolved childhood issues and then hopefully mend them.
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Let's just say, if I weren't a model, I'd be a walking collage. I see my body as a blank canvas that's aching to be decorated; I find it all very fascinating.
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Factoring in millions of people when I'm writing a song is not a good idea. I don't ever do it.
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The pressure on women to be thin is like a plague. I have gone through my life, like a lot of women, rating my experiences on the basis of, 'Was I thin at that time or fat?' And it doesn't seem to let up.
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If I saw me, I’d want to speak to me too. I’d think, ‘that guy looks like he’s form Mars, he’s somehow strangely compelling.’
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My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.
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What happens is that, you know, on Mondays, at least in the Senate, you know, Monday night we'd have what you'd call a bed-check vote. Just to get, you know, the machinery of the Senate up and running so they can start the committee process; on Tuesday morning, things go. By Thursday, you know, jet fumes, the smell of jet fumes.
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Consumer technology and medical tools have been created to benefit our daily lives. Without self-regulation, though, the industry could be at risk of potentially halting years of innovation and stunting growth in this field.
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I would ask my parents something, but then go to my siblings. We were encouraged to bounce ideas off everyone.
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Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!
