Witold Rybczynski Quotes

For where else, if not in the home, can we let our imagination wander?

Witold Rybczynski

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• You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Focus
  • Try
  • Tough

• The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.

  

  Edmund White
  • Up
  • Good
  • Friends

• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Punishment
  • Cause
  • Martyr

• No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Man
  • See
  • Blind

• Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.

  

  D. W. Griffith
  • Think
  • Well
  • Did

• Don't underlook the Sixties; we started eating more vegetables, respecting women, and we shut down Vietnam. We did a lot of good stuff. But it shouldn't shut you down from the moment.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Good
  • Women
  • Moment

• In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching 'Dora The Explorer.' So we are sort of saturated with American culture from the day we're born, and to those of those who do have an ear for it, it's second nature.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Up
  • American
  • Nature

• The idea of Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Dracula, all I could think of was, why haven't they done this with him before? It's such a genius idea. 'Dracula' has always been done as film, so it's been an hour and 40 minutes. What we're done is 10 hours of 'Dracula,' so you have a lot of freedom with all the different mythologies and nuances.

  

  Victoria Smurfit
  • Different
  • Done
  • Why

• I wouldn't say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Greatest
  • Dancers

• I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Best
  • Movies
  • Scary

• I've loved cartoons all along. Most people outgrow that when they hit 10 or 12, I guess, but I never did. I'm not sure why.

  

  Warren Spector
  • People
  • Why
  • Never

• Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Business
  • Today
  • Reality

• As the culture war is about irreconcilable beliefs about God and man, right and wrong, good and evil, and is at root a religious war, it will be with us so long as men are free to act on their beliefs.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Good
  • God
  • Men

• Short boots are cool, in my humble opinion. They say, 'Hey! Winter is over, but summer hasn't yet arrived - so enjoy this halfway point!'

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Cool
  • Opinion
  • Summer

• We can't assign beliefs to people who don't have a voice to express them. And we can't assume what someone thinks.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • People
  • Voice
  • Someone

• How strange to have failed as a social creature - even criminals do not fail that way - they are the law's 'Loyal Opposition,' so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Earth
  • Law
  • Broken

• What's in my pocket?You never knewYou didn't know me wellSo well, as I knew you

  

  Zooey Deschanel

• Framework, (...)

  

  Warren Farrell

• I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet. Anybody who could possibly call himself a poet just cannot be a poet.

  

  Bob Dylan

• Be sensitive to subtle differences between 'intuition' and 'into wishing'.

  

  Ed Seykota
  • Wish
  • Differences
  • Intuition

• Since we are not permitted to act, we are obliged to know.

  

  Jack Vance

• To me, being funny is more important than making a point, but I don't know. Most politicians are so interested in making points that they don't ... I'd rather be funny myself, and I'd rather listen to somebody with a little sense of humor.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Important
  • Humor
  • Politician

• For where else, if not in the home, can we let our imagination wander?

  

  Witold Rybczynski
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