Wislawa Szymborska Quotes

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

Wislawa Szymborska

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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

• I don't believe in anti-aging creams. I believe the skin should be clean, should be nourished, but most of all you should eat the right things.

  

  Sofia Villani Scicolone
  • Should
  • Skins
  • Clean

• North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • World
  • Country
  • Internet

• There are various art forms we may or may not have talent for, may or may not have time for, and we may or may not be able to express ourselves in, but we ought to consider this fact-that whether we choose to be an environment or not, we are. We produce an environment other people have to live in. We should be conscious of the fact that this environment which we produce by our very 'being' can affect the people who live with us or work with us.

  

  Edith Schaeffer
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

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

  

  Wislawa Szymborska
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