Bohumil Hrabal Quotes

It's interesting how young poets think of death while old fogies think of girls.

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• We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • World
  • Think
  • Eye

• You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Weird

• I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.

  

  Wendell Wilkie
  • Know
  • Day
  • Lose

• Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Books

• The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Society
  • Product
  • Boredom

• I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • God
  • Religion
  • Greek

• What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • World
  • American
  • Today

• Yeah, I'm very impressed with Lifetime, this is the first time I've worked with them. I really like the kind of programming that they're into, so I'm hoping that I will.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Time
  • First
  • Programming

• People around me like me the best when I'm depressed because I'm a bit more passive.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Best
  • Depressed

• Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Courage

• We, the women of the Senate, with President Obama by our side, will keep fighting - our shoulders square, our lipstick on - because you deserve equal pay for your hard work.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Work
  • Women
  • Fighting

• Uncertainty doesn't make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Life
  • Uncertainty
  • Gambling

• It's really hard to compete with Apple on pure coolness, and if you do, you're probably going to use some of the things they pioneered.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • You
  • Going
  • Apple

• Men think for themselves when they’re men.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Men

• We are all made of air There's stars in my eyes and there's sun in my hair And I'm runnin' away, it makes me feel better

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Eyes
  • Hair
  • Air

• My son, whoever wishes to keep a secret, must hide from us that he possesses one. Self complaisance over the concealed destroys its concealment.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Son
  • Wishes

• There are no innocent civilians. It is their government and you are fighting a people, you are not trying to fight an armed force anymore. So it doesn't bother me so much to be killing the so-called innocent bystanders.

  

  Curtis LeMay
  • People
  • Trying
  • Fighting

• Browsing the OED is the idea of a perfect day for me.

  

  Anu Garg
  • Perfect

• They the government cannot stop people from communicating freely, to get information and to express themselves. When they do that, this nation is not a right place to live. They sacrifice generations of people’s opportunities. This is a crime.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • Live
  • Stop

• Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny.

  

  Frank Zappa
  • Funny

• I said if I have a No. 1, I'll do a naked photo shoot! I'm not sure a lot of people would like to see that, but it was more to the fans, really. Every gig I do, they try to get me to take my clothes off, so it's a promise to them - if I get a No. 1, I'll happily do a naked shoot.

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Me
  • Promise

• Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Death
  • Die

• In many ways, the South can be very traditional and confining. And what is interesting to me is how women find their way around it. Those obstacles create an amazing sense of humor, of fun, and, ultimately, of integrity. The fiercest and savviest women I have ever known are the women I grew up with.

  

  Connie Britton
  • Up
  • Women
  • Fun

• It's interesting how young poets think of death while old fogies think of girls.

  

  Bohumil Hrabal
  • Death
  • Interesting
  • Girls