Top 747 Quotes & Sayings by Czechoslovakian Authors - Page 5

I will only speak off the record about Debra Winger.

When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced.

There is the glamour side of it, which allows you to meet great variety of people with whom you simply can have a good time, but there's also the sad side of it that drags you into a superficial and artificial world.

Theater is there to search for questions. It doesn't give you instructions.

There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain.

It's flattering to be compared in any way to Tiger Woods, because he's the best player in the world.

Energy use is merely a means to many rewarding ends: economic security, education, health.

Privatization of the state-owned economy is not yet on the agenda. We cannot do it immediately; my colleagues would not agree to it. But we must put all forms of ownership on an equal footing immediately and let different types of ownership compete with the state firms.

It is what makes the reform process an art, not just a science. You have to develop a strategy that tells you what reform measures you should follow and in what sequence.

We're a society that demands electricity 24/7. This is very difficult with sun and wind.

I think it was the right time for me to retire because nowadays tennis is too incredibly fast and you can say that my style tennis went out of fashion.

The Dawn Wall is so obviously the hardest big-wall climb in the world, so that was the challenge.

I have now spent over a year trying to figure where in the workplace I belong.

Italian men do appreciate beautiful women. They're not afraid of the beauty, which is nice.

I think I had my first anxiety attack at the age of 10. Then it sort of varied between being so bad that I barely dared to go out to periods where it almost vanished. It's sort of like an ebb and flow thing.

You can feel up, you can feel down, and you have to keep your emotions kind of somewhere to be focused on the next ball.

Exceptional circumstances can accelerate the gradual process of energy transitions: France's decision to develop nuclear energy on a grand scale is perhaps the best example of how that can be done by government fiat. In contrast, America's accelerated shift from coal has been driven by an inevitable embrace of cheaper natural gas.

When I came for the first time to the United States, visiting, I was absolutely fascinated by New York.

My father has a book where, ever since I started playing games... he wrote down the games that I played in. And then, when I did my website, we thought that was a really good idea, that people can keep track of my games.

Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline regime took several months to crack down on dissidents.

As for antichrist occupying the papal chair, it is evident that a pope living contrary to Christ, like any other perverted person, is called, by common consent, antichrist.

I'm not 21 and trying to prove something with my words.

But it's very difficult, I can tell you I played the Czech Open a few times and it's very difficult just to go on to a scene where the course is prepared differently when the greens are fast and he's not used to it and they're hard as a rock and he's not used to it.

I do not climb really dangerous stuff.

The connection between the Soviet Union and Czech people - or Czech politicians - was very big. It was like a model country for us. But it wasn't the best model, so a lot of Czechs don't like to speak about Russia or the Soviet Union.

People want you to be beautiful and shut up. When I paint or play music, they'd rather not know about that.

I'm not much to watch. I run, I fight, I'm not elegant like Raul, Figo, Zidane or Beckham.

Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.

Tennis is a big thing in the Czech Republic.

Individuals fighting or rebelling against the status quo, the establishment, is good for drama.

Whoever has played tennis knows the court is pretty big and you always have space to put the ball in.

Let whatever is going to happen to me happen. I'm expecting the worst for myself and I'm resigned to it.

The harder routes you climb, the more interesting the climbing gets and the more crazy moves you are forced to figure out.

I think talent is dangerous to have if you take it for granted. If you use it well and put hard work with it together, it's hard to catch that guy. And I think that's what you're seeing right now.

I grew up on the tennis court with lots of other kids. There were like 40 kids all afternoon and I was one of the youngest ones, so I always had to chase everybody to keep up.

Tennis is basically a game where you try to create an opportunity for yourself to finish the point, because you can't wait for the opponent to miss anymore. Well, if you create an opportunity and don't take advantage of it, you let the opponent back to even, then you are just starting the point over, so you have to take advantage of them.

They didn't have the money to keep Christopher Lee long enough to play his scenes with me.

We are very isolated, far from boyfriends and friends, so we have to be strong, smart and very professional.

The songs, if I write alone in a room, end up being a little more quiet, a little more subdued. If I play with other musicians or percussive instruments, it might end up being a little more upbeat.

The top players talk more now, and we have more meetings. We're just trying to get things better. But we still need somebody who could make a difference.

What's certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba's can't continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually.

First of all, to defend my work, I had to believe that I am doing a totally silly, stupid, innocent comedy.

In the economic sphere, the program demanded thorough decentralization and managerial independence of enterprises, as well as legalization of small-scale private enterprise, especially in the service sector.

I have a very active social life. It may look glamorous, and it is, but it also takes an enormous amount of time.

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

There was the best teachers from the Czech Philharmonic, highly dedicated people, some of the best musicians in the world passing on the knowledge about the country, about the principles, and about the music.

Lying can never save us from another lie.

We shall have to remove everything that strangles artistic and scientific creativeness.

Most innovation is not done by research institutes and national laboratories. It comes from manufacturing - from companies that want to extend their product reach, improve their costs, increase their returns. What's very important is in-house research.

Words are my life.

Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.

I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in.

But bread is different. I come from Czechoslovakia, where we eat lots of it, so it's hard to say no. I can't even have one piece, because when I start, I don't stop.

The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.

I've learned a couple of things. And one of the things I have learned is that every experience has pluses and minuses.

Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.

I'm old fashioned. I'm not one of these young guys who think they are so smart that they can prescribe what humanity ought to do. Humanity never learns any lessons. Prescriptions don't matter. We already know exactly what to do. We just don't do it.

Reading is, hands-down, my favorite activity.

For example, if I make money, I put it in real estate. I always did very well. Location, location, location.

I used to work all the time, and now if there is a wedding, there's a concert, I'm there.