Top 632 Quotes & Sayings by Hungarian Authors - Page 10

If there is such a thing as freedom, then there is no fate.

These maxims and the art of interpreting them may be said to constitute the premisses of science but I prefer to call them our scientific beliefs. These premisses or beliefs are embodied in a tradition, the tradition of science.

A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.

My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory.

Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming power. They were not trained for occupation duties.

Only one man ever betrayed my confidence, and that only in a minor matter.

I always wanted to be a rock'n'roll star.

There are a lot of competitive girls in the industry, so you just find the ones who share your mentality.

I'm a workaholic. Before long I'm traveling on my nervous energy alone. This is incredibly exhausting.

Most people don't need to work as hard as I do.

Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.

Individual scientists like myself - and many more conspicuous - pointed to the dangers of radioactive fallout over Canada if we were to launch nuclear weapons to intercept incoming bombers.

Even from the very beginning, the type of fans the Ramones generated were the kind of people who wound up running industry, who became professors and scientists. Our staunchest fans were always a little bit more on the outside, the type of people who didn't fit in with society.

I love the simplicity of the Cube because it's a very clear geometrical shape, and I love geometry because it's the study of how the whole universe is structured.

Property is a nuisance.

Our whole life is solving puzzles.

It's very important where you put your goals.

I am a great admirer of mystery and magic. Look at this life - all mystery and magic.

I was running an assembly line designed to build memory chips. I saw the microprocessor as a bloody nuisance.

But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people.

The designer must understand that form does not follow function nor does form follow a production process. For every use and for every production process there are innumerable equally attractive solutions.

I've always known I would be a success, but I was surprised at the way it came.

The Southern borders of Bavaria are being protected by Hungary.

I was six when we came to this country. When I was 14 or so, I still had a lot of trouble with it.

We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.

Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence.

People enter Web sites hoping to be led somewhere, hoping for a payoff.

If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry.

Most of the people who are given these Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame things sell millions of records, so it's kind of like a trophy for them. But for the Ramones, it really was a symbolic gesture of, 'Yes, you guys are special and are important to rock n' roll.' So in that sense, the Roll Hall of Fame served its purpose.

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music schools with competent teachers, and many, very many, free scholarships for talented young disciples who are unable to pay the expense of study.

There was no way I could live in Hollywood and not become an actress.

My time in Weimar Berlin was the most elegant in my life. I would have parties for a hundred people - writers, scientists, artists.

Our opponents maintain that we are confronted with insurmountable political obstacles, but that may be said of the smallest obstacle if one has no desire to surmount it.

I'm still the same person, thinking the same way, so it's possible I will invent something.

Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

HAM radio is very inexpensive, it is nearly unlimited and free to use. The only limitation is that you can only talk for five minutes to any given person because the station gets out of range within that time.

I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.

Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence.

There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.

Who most benefits from keeping marijuana illegal? The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal organizations in Mexico and elsewhere that earn billions of dollars annually from this illicit trade - and who would rapidly lose their competitive advantage if marijuana were a legal commodity.

I do Pilates. And that's best for me... because I can't really do any other sports any more because of my muscles.

This oxidation of hydrogen in stages seems to be one of the basic principles of biological oxidation.

The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind.

Extremism is always potentially dangerous, but in Hungary's political reality, Jobbik and the other far-right parties have no chance of having a major influence.

I have a good sense of humor. I think everything we do should have whimsy in it.

My lesson from history is that if there is a strong moderate centrist party which can lead the country, there is no room for extremists from the right or left.

I did not want to become a poster child for yet another disease.

The rich support the poor primarily via taxes.

The Cube is, at the same time, a symbol of simplicity and complexity.

A book is either autobiography or a novel.

The meaning of freedom is in the U.S. Constitution. Republicans want to live by the document's original meaning.

It was tremendously satisfying to watch this color parade.

Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.

I think I look great in pretty much everything... kidding! For the red carpet, I like to do really natural eyes and a nice sleek ponytail. Sometimes I'm into a really dark rouge, purple bold lip.

The house of Austria has publicly used every effort to deprive the country of its legitimate Independence and Constitution, designing to reduce it to a level with the other provinces long since deprived of all freedom, and to unite all in a common sink of slavery.

I put forward a pretty general theory that financial markets are intrinsically unstable. That we really have a false picture when we think about markets tending towards equilibrium.

Of course, experience strengthens one later.

Johnny was an athlete who didn't play sport. His first love was baseball, but he didn't think he had it in him to be a professional.