Top 233 Quotes & Sayings by Bosniak Authors - Page 3

I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist, I'm a writer.

The thing with 'No Man's Land' is not to see it, but how to make people to go to see it. The one negative criticism I've heard is that the relationship between tragedy and comedy is so perfect that it becomes suspicious. I take it as a complement.

I owe Wolfsburg everything. Without them, I would not have had the chance to play for Manchester City or Roma.

When you're a young boy, you don't think; you just go for it. When you have more experience, you have to play more with your head.

Of course, there is no greater honour than to captain your own country.

For every striker, it's important to have some crosses. Sometimes they come, sometimes not.

A particular piece of music attaches itself to the piece I'm writing, and there is nothing else I can listen to. Every day I return to the same space to write, the music providing both the walls and the pictures on the walls.

When you get 10-15 minutes, you can't be sad or angry with the coach. You just have to play your game and do your best. That is in my mind always.

When I go to a cinema, I don't care if the film is made by a man or a woman as long as it tells me a story, as long as it offers pictures that shed light on my existence, characters I can identify with, jokes I can laugh at.

I'm fine at Wolfsburg, and I'm happy to be able to play in the Champions League.

My generation has to deal with how to overcome a trauma, how to overcome destruction, and how to tell the truth to the next generation.

People come to the theatre in search of a real encounter with other human beings, and we must give them what they come for. Our capacity to do that is the measure of being human. And if the price is that we sometimes say something not very pleasant - well, that's precisely why people want us, in the end: because we speak the truth.

I am happy that United seems to be one of those against whom I score a lot!

I came here to win titles with Roma. I can only promise one thing, and that is that I will give my best for this club in every game.

Life is not just food, it's something spiritual.

I did go to a film school in Sarajevo. I studied film and theatre directing. There was a war raging in the country while I was studying, and we did not have neither electricity nor cinemas for three and a half years.

Art can articulate new ideas.

In Bosnia and Herzegovina, a country of few but nonetheless good films, it is almost impossible to produce a film without access to various European initiatives and funds. Creative Europe and its media program are essential for our film industry.

It was important to feel that you were resisting the fascism around you. But we had no electricity to watch movies. We were imagining our movies.

The 21st century is significantly different from the 20th century. The old models will not hold anymore. More and more, we are one people on Earth. We need to share our problems.

For every player, it is important to be fit and have a good pre-season behind him.

'For Those Who Can Tell No Tales' is a story of memory and the energy of places that remain full of drama, pain, and denial.

I will never be a super sub. I want to play.

Art is freedom. If we don't have that element, we don't feel human anymore. Art is not decoration or a function. Before all that, art is art. This connection to meaning - our inner, intuitive knowledge - is something.

I'm not someone who can do 10 stepovers or backheels - I'm not very interested in that. I'm more fascinated by the simplicity of play because the thing that makes this sport so beautiful.

At Roma, it's not easy: if you win three games, you've won the league title; if you lose one, everything is bad.

I really don't need luxury.

I've always tried to help younger players and to talk with everyone.

Islam is a way of living rather than a way of thinking.

Our daughter was born in Chicago, and she's already showing it. The temperature has to be approaching zero for her to wear a hat.

I was six when the war started. It was terrible. My house was destroyed, so we went to live with my grandparents. The whole family was there, maybe 15 people all staying in an apartment about 35m square. It was very hard.

The first goal is always very important.

Chelsea is a great team with some amazing players.

My motto has always been, 'Never give up.'

I think I was called 'the pianist' because of the way I play. It's true that I don't score many goals, just a few, but they are beautiful when I do score! I think it's more about my style of play, how I touch the ball, how I pass the ball, how I move it.

Individual acts have made Europe a civilized place and are key to its development. We must not forget it.

I love the Bundesliga, and I will return to the Bundesliga. I can just not say when I will return.

I believe that the people, instead of pretty lies, should be told the truth, no matter how ugly it may be. What can we do, destiny hasn't been kind to us; but, with the help of God, we will prevail.

Hopefully I'll have a lot of success.

In these negotiations we are not a helpless object, although great world powers are involved. We play an active role and try to influence our destiny; we have our own trump cards and we use them.

Nothing compares to Rome. Nothing. People there are crazy about football - in a positive way.

If you love your film, you have to fight for it.

My dream was to become a footballer. I started loving football so much that I followed my dad wherever he went and spent all my time playing football with friends out in the fields. But my parents also taught me the important values and principles in life of respect and to raise me in that way.

When you score in the first minutes, everything changes.

The U.S. Declaration of Independence enshrines the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Alas, that is not the case everywhere in the world.

Cinema connects people: they respond as a group, you feel you are not alone, and you see you are not alone. Capitalism is destroying this social aspect of films, and even empathy, by creating the illusion that you are more important than the next person: 'You will buy this because you are special.' That is horrible.

I want to win titles, and Juve is the right club for that.

I don't think that 'No Man's Land' is a comedy. I think that it's a serious film with a good sense of humour.

Every time I see a paper, for what seems like a year or more, there is a story saying that I am leaving City or that I want to go. But I've never said that, so the stories don't come from me. I've always wanted to stay at City and fight for my place.

I will continue to be a big fan of Manchester City, to whom I wish all the best and many more trophies and happiness in the future.

Every time has its own 'Hamlet.'

In my country, though it is very patriarchal and male-dominated, the public enjoys women-directed movies.

The industry of political conflict is the biggest industry in Bosnia, and it is still not exhausted. What is needed is to replace these two industries - the industry of political conflict, the industry of human rights - with normal, creative walks of life.

I wish to thank all fans who support me, but the others should be ashamed because I am a born winner and always played my heart out for the national team.

I am excited to play alongside players such as Carlos Tevez and Yaya Toure, whom I have only seen on TV, and to be in the same team as players I have played against such as Jerome Boateng and Vincent Kompany.

Having been raised during the war, I know very well how childhood hampered by displacement, poverty, violence, and fear looks like.

Music, for me, in a film is never... I don't want to use music as a slave of the image. I want music to be art, or a body in itself to give something to the film.

Always, for me, when I am dealing with subjects related to my country that are very emotional, I have to find the right tone and distance because, obviously, I start with anger, asking 'why that happened' and 'why it is still happening.' I work to rise above my personal anger but still stay connected to my emotions. That's a big challenge.

I cannot stand that whole game of confession, that is: Here I have sinned, now I'm confessing my sins, and describing my path of sin and then in the act of confession I beg for your forgiveness and redemption.

After I finish with football, I will definitely go home. I won't stay in England, but I like it here, and I'm happy I'm doing what's best to give everything on the pitch, and then when I can, I relax. But the only bad thing is here maybe the rain is much more than in my country, but everything else I am happy with.