Wislawa Szymborska Quotes

Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don't like to joke.

Wislawa Szymborska

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• I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Learned
  • Dangerous
  • Drive

• Nothing is unfilmable.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Nothing

• I think 'The Color of Money' was very instrumental in opening up other opportunities. People started to recognize me as an artist after that film. And then, after I did 'Bird,' it was more solidified.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Good
  • Man
  • Doubt

• I do not support a North American Union. I disagree fundamentally with that, and I think the United States should be governing itself and not being governed by multilateral unions, the United Nations.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • American
  • Think
  • Support

• Death is so important that God visited death upon his own son, thereby helping us learn right from wrong well enough that we may escape death forever and live eternally in God's grace.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • God
  • Important
  • Live

• I think I'm the only professional horse rider from the movie industry. Strangely, I've seen no men from the industry at equestrian events. Though I've seen some ladies like Diya Mirza and Lara Dutta at the race course. Women, by the way, make superior horse riders.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Men
  • Women
  • Movie

• Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story.

  

  Hall Caine
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Church

• I don't understand, given the constraints physicians have in doing their job and the paperwork demanded of them, why people want to be physicians. I think we've made it very, very difficult for them to perform their job. I think that's a shame.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • People
  • Why
  • Job

• Cerrone, he's a very good Muay Thai guy, very long.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Good
  • Long
  • Guy

• The culture means the younger generation respecting the OGs, but at the same time, bringing it all to the older generation to where they can relate.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Time
  • Culture
  • Generation

• The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Free
  • Day
  • Run

• Terrorists are as torn as anyone else.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Anyone
  • Else
  • Torn

• My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • World
  • Music
  • Hope

• I try to be a good father, and my kids are the most important thing in my life.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • Life
  • Good
  • Important

• All pitchers are liars or crybabies.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Liars
  • Pitchers

• I don't care what people are saying about me, good or bad, in blogs or on Twitter or in the media. There will always be people who don't like you and don't like your books. Ignore them.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• There is the love and marriage and family kind of happiness, which is exceedingly boring to describe but nonetheless is important to have and dreadful not to have.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Love
  • Marriage
  • Happiness

• It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.

  

  George Jean Nathan
  • Time

• My first show was in front of 30,000 people with will.i.am, and I wasn't even that nervous.

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • First
  • Nervous

• An unemployed court jester is nobody's fool.

  

  Kevin Hart
  • Fool

• One nice thing about making jokes is that you don't have to prove them.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Nice
  • Jokes

• Going to war against Iran - whether one calls such a move 'surgical' or 'total' - would be an extremely serious undertaking; with worldwide economic, military, diplomatic and human ramifications in both the short- and the long-term.

  

  Bob Barr
  • Long
  • War
  • Serious

• Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don't like to joke.

  

  Wislawa Szymborska
  • Serious
  • Jokes
  • Existentialist