Top 747 Quotes & Sayings by Czechoslovakian Authors - Page 10

Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.

Communists love to make films about composers because composers compose music and don't talk subversive things.

Because I just loved to spend two years of my life in the company of Andy Kaufman and other characters.

Well, maybe at home I don't have the best image.

The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death.

Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.

I don't really care how we done it, we done it.

The worst evil is - and that's the product of censorship - is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because I have to think something else and say something else, I have to always control myself.

Politicians differ in their views whether Russia or Islamic State is a bigger menace, and I personally think that Islamic State is the bigger threat.

With film, it's all about the actor being able to feel the things that the character's feeling. It must do some strange things to your mind. Music I find much easier because you're being honest about where you are as a person.

There are people who can start having very powerful experiences without taking psychedelics. It can happen against their will. This is a universal phenomenon.

It's always better if you have one manager for a long period because then you can build the team.

Our dad used to take us fishing, and I still love it.

You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end.

Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.

When I was in high school, I started learning English as my second foreign language, but my level of English at that time was very average.

In business, you have to be strong. If you are weak, people are going to take advantage.

I think fans appreciate players who give everything in a game.

My boyfriend thinks I lost my true calling to be a librarian.

But I also like to shower my parents with presents. I bought them a beautiful car and a house.

When I do my own books, I take it as more of my own confessional, but when I illustrate for other people, it is intriguing because I feel like I shouldn't be stepping too much into the limelight. It's like playing the piano while someone else is singing.

The idea of celebrity has always been very strange to me because it's taking the focus away from the music and attaching it to a person. When we put someone on a pedestal or idolize them, we're giving our own power away.

Sometimes I put too much pressure on my back.

Deep in my heart, I still believe that the democratization of Russia and the democratization of Ukraine will proceed.

I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience.

Sometimes I feel that old desire. Then my body tells me it is 50 years old. I take the easy way instead.

Sometimes I wouldn't give an interview because I didn't have the time or something else was more important. So they come up with a story which I don't think is always true, but they have to sell papers.

Football is a wonderful game which can be cruel at times.

Your past always leads to who you are.

It is more important to be a personality than a person who is in a political party.

I was coming back from Tel Aviv recently, and we had forty minutes of bumps. I got so scared I grabbed a paper and pen and put them in my pocket, just in case we crashed and I needed to write a letter from wherever we landed.

Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways.

I liked the generation of Paul Scholes and Ryan Giggs, who I admired. I was a little bit jealous of Karel Poborsky who played in Manchester and experienced great matches. I know he still feels that love.

I am a Slavic musician and it is deeply inside of me.

I don't like running that much, and during the off-season, I have to do it, but if I can replace it with tennis, it is better.

Ever since I was a child, I was fascinated by show business, the theater.

It's really difficult to climb effortlessly.

There are no small parts. Only small actors.

That was really so upsetting when you are trying to pass on some very serious knowledge and be basically, treated worse than a student coming off the street because his father pays the tuition. Come on. Give me a break. This is no school. This is a joke.

In my country, I am just a common man... a nobody.

I feel confident, especially about beating good players.

I really don't think I have anything special to say.

I want great food and wine, and friends to enjoy it all.

I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.

Definitely, it would be foolish to try and make my Czech films here in America, as foolish as it is when some Czech filmmakers try to make movies of America in Czechoslovakia.

The players don't play the position game as much as we used to play. A lot of young guys go up and down, shoot the puck, go for the rebounds. You're getting tired quicker because the body has to react where the puck is going to go. You cannot read it, because you don't have the puck on your stick.

I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself.

Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.

There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.

I can dance for, like, four or five hours nonstop without even drinking water. It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.

If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.

I thought it was time to get a group together and the first person I thought of was Wayne Shorter. I called Wayne and in the meantime, Wayne called me to make an album with him, which was Super Nova.

In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.

When you're comfortable with someone, you don't look for anyone else.

My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company.

I don't think Russia could start a war by attacking any of the NATO member states.

As you get older, your tastes get simpler. I like a sleek evening dress with a pair of big earrings. That's all.

When you have little children, you want to tell them about joy and happiness and hope. And then comes the time you want to tell them there are tough moments. I admire people who can do that.

I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the other women in sports.

There is no roles. No one is keeping any roles. The drummer is also answering everybody and everything. So it is a constant conversation and communication between musicians on an extremely high level with extremely valuable material, motifs, and melodies.