Witold Gombrowicz Quotes

Our element is unending immaturity.

Witold Gombrowicz

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• I don't know if I've ever played a character who's close to me. There have been some elements of myself in different roles. Sometimes, I show one side of myself and then completely conceal the other.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Character
  • Me
  • Roles

• I enjoy the sari. I think it's the sexiest garment ever. It shows you the right amount, it covers the right amount, it's extremely versatile, it suits every body type, it suits every face.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Think
  • Body
  • Enjoy

• I would love to do a live show with dancers and fashion and scenic elements - definitely bring my love of the theater to a concert-style performance.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Fashion
  • Style
  • Performance

• That's the joy of making a movie: watching all the elements come together.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Together
  • Movie
  • Joy

• My sound is, at its core, a mix of things. Definitely an imperfect mix, but one that incorporates elements of the music I love - a bit of indie rock, super rhythmic rapping, and lots of synths.

  

  K. Flay
  • Music
  • Sound
  • Elements

• With a huge storm, you need a lot of volume, but it can't become one loud noise. Dolby Atmos helped a lot because it gave us the separation of those elements.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • You
  • Storm
  • Elements

• All I can say is that I am not one of those writers who want 100% of their book in the film. I recognize that film is a different medium and the filmmaker must have the right to bring some new elements to the table, provided the soul of the book is preserved.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Book
  • Soul
  • Film

• I can always say I led off for the New York Yankees. It's an amazing feeling.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Feeling
  • Amazing

• A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it.

  

  Austin O'Malley

• I want to see gay couples stuck with their significant other at Home Depot with that far away look in their eye, get me out of here.

  

  David Alan Grier
  • Home
  • Gay

• All our hiring staff are trained to interview in English. They're trained to look for Westernized segments because we deal with global customers.

  

  Azim Premji
  • English

• Siblings are the guarantors that the private childhood world - so unlike the adult world that scientists are only just beginning to understand it - is a fully shared and objective one.

  

  Alison Gopnik
  • World
  • Beginning
  • Childhood

• Because conscription appeals to essentially no one, the United States has lived with the All-Volunteer Force since the end of the Vietnam War.

  

  Jacob Weisberg
  • War
  • Volunteer

• It's so amazing to hear a crowd of people singing one of your songs. It's the best feeling.

  

  Liam Payne One Direction
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Amazing

• We have to make sure the music and the message and the words and all the elements come through in our songs and every time we appear in public.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Time
  • Music
  • Words

• It was interesting to think that the very first liquid ever poured on the Moon, and the first food eaten there, were communion elements.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Interesting
  • Food
  • Moon

• There are no pure styles of karate. Purity comes only when pure knuckles meet pure flesh, no matter who delivers or receives.

  

  Ed Parker
  • Style
  • Flesh
  • Purity

• The ANC is very concerned (about shedding votes), hence they are pinning their hopes that those rogue elements will run the elections, so rigging will be on the high. There is no doubt about that

  

  Bantubonke Harrington Holomisa
  • High
  • Running
  • Doubt

• In almost every task involving form, there are dozens, often hundreds of contradictory elements, which need to be forced to work in harmony by man's will. This harmony can be acheived only through art.

  

  Alvar Aalto
  • Work
  • Art
  • Harmony

• The best results I have had in my life; the most enjoyable times, have all come from asking the simple question: 'What is the worst that could happen?'

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • My Life
  • Results
  • Asking

• We need a united front against Islamic State and Assad happens to be the decisive power that can fight them. But the situation is preposterous because we also have to respect the calls for change. I would be in favor of a dignified change.

  

  Ahmed Chalabi
  • Power
  • Respect
  • Fighting

• For some reason, Hitch wanted to do the longest dolly shot in cinema history. The idea was that the shot would begin with an assembly line, and then you'd gradually see the parts of the car added and assembled, and, all the while, the camera's dollying for miles along with the assembly line, and then eventually there's a completed car, all built, and it's driven off the assembly line, and there's a dead body in the backseat ... It was intriguing, but it had no place in the picture.

  

  Ernest Lehman
  • History
  • Cinema
  • Shot

• Our element is unending immaturity.

  

  Witold Gombrowicz
  • Elements
  • Immaturity