Top 242 Quotes & Sayings by Georgian Authors - Page 2

Queen were the first western band I got hooked on. I got a bootleg - there was hardly any legal buying of CDs in Georgia.

I trust no one, not even myself.

But I do believe in living life to the full and so I have no problems spending money on travel and holidays.

Ever since I left the Brit school I've been so protected. I had a woman to do my hair and makeup every day throughout my 20s.

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

You have to defend the perimeter guys otherwise you're going to struggle getting playing time or staying on the court.

The best part of my career has been the relationships with the fans and the kids.

Buying books is probably my biggest vice when I travel.

I have always lived according to my conscience, and my past is clean.

It's definitely important to never forget where you're coming from, where you were born and raised.

I just love scary stuff! I'm a huge horror buff.

I started writing and recording, at a very basic level, just in my own bedroom.

If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference', you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.

Maybe when you're 18, 19, 20, you could have a bit of a wobble if you're going on live TV and playing guitar. But in your thirties you've got to just grow up about it.

I can't worry about things that I can't control. That's the best approach, so I've been doing that.

Everybody in Georgia is musical, but I was slightly obsessed.

Of course money is important. Very important. Important to everybody. If I said it wasn't, I'd be lying. Especially because it's not like I've made hundreds of millions of dollars in my career.

I'm the worst customer for a credit card company because I always pay my balance off every month.

If you love this game, you always want to be out there, not in the sideline dressed in the street clothes. Especially when you know you can help the team.

My focus was, and still is, totally on making music, getting on the road and performing live.

The most important thing is to stay smart and patient.

The writer is the engineer of the human soul.

The economy is governed through cartel agreements and monopoly. The attorney general is the one who's controlling funds. There is no free business in Georgia.

In Georgia, people had already understood that communism couldn't survive, and I came to the institute in Moscow, and people still believed in it. They were completely different people, and I found it very difficult psychologically.

I personally stream or download from iTunes because I love the quick access that I have to music; I don't have to write down a list of songs that I like and then go to the shop.

If you want to know who Zaza Pachulia is and you don't know, talk to any of my teammates. Teammates, coaches, I played over 1,000 games.

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.

There's a lot of hating on social media - and I'm not the only one, I'm 100 percent sure. Pick the best player possible - all-time or one who's playing today - everybody has something to say.

And I've teamed up with a choir from home. They're called the Gori Women's Choir. They're a 23-piece all-female choir, and they've been going since the '70s.

There is a real and evident problem of democracy in Georgia, and this was the core reason of my entrance into politics. We have no rule of law. It's absolutely absent.

I'll go through the budgets for tours and recordings, royalty statements... You have to wise up about it a bit more.

The love of this game has been with me since I heard the word basketball itself.

All the therapists would tell me was that I was the only healthy person they knew.

When I had a mental breakdown I was 26 and the most important thing before that was my work. And I still adore it. But it was all that mattered and everything else was secondary: my relationship, my family, my own health.

I know I'm not the first one or the last one. But still to play 1,000 NBA games is pretty remarkable and pretty cool.

I love being out in nature. That is really important. It's everything actually.

You can't always have your way. Sometimes life is going to go a different direction. But you've got to learn how to adjust, and you've got to learn how to deal with it.

I was writing my Ph.D. in the late 1980s and was keeping an eye on what was happening in the world. It became obvious to me that Russia couldn't live without computers. I think I worked this out a year before anyone else. I started looking for people who could help import them.

I'm really glad I got to represent my country and make my people proud.

My father has been an inspiration - he instilled his work ethic without ever having to hammer it home. He was also very encouraging.

I may not be a politician, but I will fight to the end of my life for what I believe in.

Having your own bobblehead is kind of cool.

The Georgians will treat you like royalty, and the odds are you'll do a lot of eating, drinking and toasting.

Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.

Children are resilient - they can always find a way to play.

I love a classic, white silk shirt with dark trousers or jeans or a dark, knee-length skirt: timeless clothes that are not too fussy always work.

I'd love to do a food tour of Italy but the next break I'll be having is skiing with my dad in Georgia. He's 58 and only just started skiing, so I'm looking forward to joining him on the slopes.

This is the game of basketball. A lot of crazy stuff happens on the court, unfortunately.

I've always been very open and unspecific about what kind of music I want to make.

That's a moment I will never forget in my life, never ever. It was the first time I made the playoffs. After we lost to the Celtics, I told myself, I never want to play a season without making the playoffs, because it was so much fun.

It's different when you practice, obviously. That's why exhibition games are a chance to see what you're trying to do.

Especially when it comes to the Finals and playoffs, your team needs you mentally and physically.

I'm already the first Georgian to play in the Finals, but I also want to be the first to be part of an NBA title.

Some of the songs are inspired by personal things that have happened. Others have been inspired by other people's stories, you know, like someone that witnesses something and so I tell the story through my own eyes. And some songs are just about how I feel about the world and others about the places that we have travelled to.

Since the whole village was poor, we didn't realize our own poverty. I was happy.

Any private security is a joke in a country where you're up against your own government.

The thing about doing gigs is you make music, and then it is gone and that is being watched by thousands of people.

A little pain is no problem.

What I've picked up from working with the women in the Gori choir is that they don't have egos. All that matters is the music.

I did go through a phase of reading a lot of poetry and getting heavily into philosophy and ended up writing things that weren't really in a musical format, which I put to some very electronic-based backing.