Vaclav Havel Quotes
The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
Quotes to Explore
-
When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
-
I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.
-
I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
-
When I was in school, you could pick any instrument you want, and they'd teach you how to play it. That changed my life. I loved playing music in school, and it sent me on my path as a musician.
-
I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.
-
It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
-
My dad is afraid of my laugh.
-
This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.
-
To portray not only a boxer but a boxer like Roberto Duran, I needed to understand all the difficulties and the pressures of the sport itself.
-
You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
-
I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
-
It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
-
People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
-
I don't think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.
-
More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
-
In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.
-
A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
-
As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
-
The whole industry evolves around a great song.
-
It's very important to me that every person takes away their own meaning from a song, and it's why I don't always love spelling out what a song is about for somebody.
-
It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
-
Sarah Palin, who with 17 months remaining in her single term as Alaska's governor quit the only serious office she has ever held, is obsessively discussed as a possible candidate in 2012. Why? She is not going to be president and will not be the Republican nominee unless the party wants to lose at least 44 states.
-
I didn't have a fraternity-like experience. I mean, I grew up with an older brother and a lot of male cousins and we were very physical with each other. We were very rambunctious when we were kids. But I never thought much - nor did I have reason to think much - about institutionalized hazing. But I think there's a reason young men are drawn to it.
-
The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
