Wislawa Szymborska Quotes

They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway.

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• On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Purpose
  • Stage
  • Emotions

• I've been reading titles from IDW for probably as long as they've been in existence. 'Ninja Turtles' is one of my all-time favorite properties ever. I also love, love, love 'Locke & Key.' I also love some of the things they do with pre-existing properties like 'Transformers' and 'Ghostbusters.'

  

  Taran Killam
  • Time
  • Existence
  • Favorite

• Neural implants could accomplish things no external interface could: Virtual and augmented reality with all five senses; augmentation of human memory, attention, and learning speed; even multi-sense telepathy - sharing what we see, hear, touch, and even perhaps what we think and feel with others.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Reality
  • Attention
  • Learning

• After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.

  

  Vernon L. Smith
  • City
  • First
  • Academic

• Embrace yourself and do what you can to look and feel your best. Don't put on so many fashion trends that create a ridiculous style statement. Pick and choose what feels good, and flatters your own body.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Good
  • Fashion
  • Style

• Common participation in the Eucharist can only be a final outcome of ecumenic dialogue, not the starting point.

  

  Karl Lehmann
  • Starting
  • Participation

• We name time when we say: every thing has its time. This means: everything which actually is, every being comes and goes at the right time and remains for a time during the time allotted to it. Every thing has its time.

  

  Martin Heidegger
  • Time

• I had started my love affair with Wimbledon.

  

  John Newcombe

• I get the thumbs up like I'm hailing a yellow cab.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Up
  • Bragging
  • Yellow

• People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • People
  • Control
  • Fall

• I was ill. I was told I was stressed, so I had to get everything checked out. I didn't think I was, but someone told me I was. As a result, I went to get a blood test. I'd never had one before, so I held my breath when I was getting it done. That caused me to go into a fit.

  

  Liam Payne One Direction
  • Done
  • Blood
  • Result

• I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director. I spent a lot of time for no money trying to teach myself how to write a script. It always felt like everybody was looking the other way and sneaking that script through the system, but it did well later on video and got another chance.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Money

• People seldom realize that they tell lies with their lips and truths with their eyes all the time.

  

  Tahereh Mafi
  • People
  • Time
  • Eyes

• Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Man
  • Hand
  • Debt

• Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.

  

  Aristotle
  • Perfect
  • Happiness
  • Actions

• If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Spring
  • Absent
  • Doleful

• I hoped that Grace would be a little bit of the best of all of us: Scarlett's spirit, and my mother's strength, Marion's determination, and Michael's sly humor. I wasn't sure what I could give, not just yet. But I would know when I told her about the comet, years from now, I would know. And I would lean close to her ear, saying the words no one else could hear, explaining it all. The language of solace and comets, and the girls we all become, in the end.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Mother
  • Girl
  • Giving

• I love my uncle to death. It just breaks my heart. It's hard for me to (believe) that this drug is that powerful.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Believe
  • Heart
  • Death

• To grow up requires a whole life but to become old one night is enough.

  

  Ignazio Silone
  • Life
  • Requires

• The last sort I shall mention are verbal critics - mere word-catchers, fellows that pick out a word in a sentence and a sentence in a volume, and tell you it is wrong. The title of Ultra-Crepidarian critics has been given to a variety of this species.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Critics
  • Sentences
  • Variety

• They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway.

  

  Wislawa Szymborska
  • Sentences