Witold Lutosławski Quotes

People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

Witold Lutosławski

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• Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • You
  • Comedy

• It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Thought

• I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Good
  • Age
  • Always

• I am glad. I am now an Olympic medallist.

  

  Gagan Narang
  • Olympic
  • Medallist

• I guess I had fun doing it but it has hard memories for me.

  

  Faith Ringgold
  • Fun
  • Me
  • Memories

• We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • America
  • Black

• I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Happy
  • Career
  • Marriage

• I'm a pro-horserace guy.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Guy

• I had an idea when I was 18 or 19 to start tutoring people, like the way that people get tutored in saxophone or guitar, but for production. I really enjoyed it, but I don't have time for that any more.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Time
  • Start

• I think a great first date would be something different... not like movies or going to dinner... going rock climbing together... doing an activity and then going to dinner, so that you guys share an experience, and then you have something to talk about, and it's not the same old thing.

  

  Madeline Zima
  • Great
  • Different
  • Experience

• My idea of artistry has always been 'try everything until you find out what works.'

  

  Usher
  • You
  • Find
  • Try

• I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of 'Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends' as a birthday present. It sat on my shelves for many months before I looked at it. When I did, I couldn't stop reading it.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Stop
  • Reading
  • Present

• When you are in your 20's and 30's, you just want a hit record and you don't really care how it happens.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Want
  • You
  • Care

• The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Soul
  • Man
  • Always

• Racist people, interestingly, are never as polite as smokers. Have you noticed that? Smokers always go, 'Do you mind if I smoke? Oh, you do? Okay, I'll go outside and have a cigarette.' Racist people never go, 'Do you mind if I'm racist? Oh, I'll go outside … fucking blue people, eh? Coming here, steal our hamsters …'

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Mind
  • Blue

• Life is a green madness just now, trying to squeeze the last bit of warmth from the season.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Green

• Any sex outside of the marriage bond between a man and a woman is violating God's law.

  

  Jerry Falwell
  • God
  • Law
  • Marriage

• I think social media has been really great for me.

  

  Anne-Marie
  • Great

• We have to promote a movie. It's just extraordinary that everybody I'm talkin' to loves this movie.

  

  Joe Pantoliano
  • Movie

• Entrepreneurship is one of the most important drivers for job creation. Moreover, social entrepreneurship offers not only a path for young people to transform their own lives, but also a way to empower others.

  

  Arancha Gonzalez
  • People
  • Important
  • Job

• Fashion pictures show people looking glamorous. Travel pictures show a place looking at its best, nothing to do with the reality. In the cookery pages, the food always looks amazing, right? Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda.

  

  Martin Parr
  • People
  • Reality
  • Food

• I've been lucky enough to play many different roles from darker characters to family orientated shows to comedy.

  

  Andrew-Lee Potts
  • Different
  • Family
  • Comedy

• A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays And confident tomorrows.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Men
  • Confidence
  • Optimism

• People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

  

  Witold Lutosławski
  • People
  • Destroyed
  • Composer