Top 632 Quotes & Sayings by Hungarian Authors - Page 11

Groupies are just very enthusiastic fans, that's all.

I paid $1.9 billion in taxes in my lifetime.

I clean my face twice a day with cold water and don't go to sleep with make-up on.

Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are resolved not to allow the despots of the world to trample on oppressed humanity.

It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience.

No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play will resemble the other except in the premise. Your knowledge, your understanding of human nature, and your imagination will take care of that.

It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes.

I've always been passionate about geometry and the study of three-dimensional forms.

During the first six years of my life, Hungary was one of the most important components of the Habsburg dynasty's vast Austro-Hungarian Empire, but after World War I it became an independent national entity.

No one in my family wrote. And there was no real introduction. I suppose I somehow blundered into it when I was about six or seven years old. I was asked what present I would like, and, without knowing why, I responded that I would like a journal. It was a beautiful journal - so beautiful that I didn't want to sully it.

I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.

The ability to conduct is a gift of God with which few have been endowed in full measure.

A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar.

It was never fun being in the Ramones, which is the saddest thing of all, cause it shoulda been fun. It was probably fun when we played Performance Studio, and maybe some of the early gigs at CBGB's. But the Ramones were the type of group that had a bizarre mindset. Being in the band was so cut off from reality.

I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes of others in the same way as we learn from our own; for we are a modern nation and wish to be the most modern in the world.

I call everyone 'Darling' because I can't remember their names.

I had an extremely boring time doing 20 to 30 trades a day while everyone was talking about baseball or basketball. So I stood there fantasizing about a device that could do the same thing I was doing.

If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience.

It is true that we aspire to our ancient land. But what we want in that ancient land is a new blossoming of the Jewish spirit.

There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little.

I would prefer not to be involved in party politics.

Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully.

I was the first actress in the family, and I am still the only actress in the family. I shouldn't be saying it, but it slipped out!

The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end.

I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whether there will be anybody to understand their works in twenty years' time.

After about six months, I told my mother that I wanted the lessons to stop, and she was intelligent enough not to force me to continue. Besides, the lessons cost money, which was anything but abundant in our household.

The source of this energy is the sun's radiation.

My brain is open.

Without work, talent is lost.

To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime. Distill this over a charcoal fire, and the liquid which results can be burned on the face without harm.

I really don't have much respect for the people who live their lives motivated by an exit strategy existing, being performed. There was no option that we were trained in that says, 'If it gets too hard, get up and leave.'

Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books.