Top 382 Quotes & Sayings by Romanian Authors - Page 2

Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.

I don't like to see mess.

I've known Oprah since 1998 or 1999. It is incredible how amazing she is. When you are around her, you see how considerate, giving and wonderful she is with the people around her.

I didn't know I wanted to be a gymnast; I was just introduced to the gym. I loved the place because it looked like a hi-tech playground with mats and a lot of things I can hang from.

Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.

When I finally came to the United States, I was forced to get a job right away. I spoke no English - none. I started working as an aesthetician in this beautiful boutique salon in Beverly Hills. Being an aesthetician didn't require an elaborate vocabulary in English. My first client was Cindy Crawford! I swear.

In 1973, I left the Rockefeller University to join the Yale University Medical School. The main reason for the move was my belief that the time had come for fruitful interactions between the new discipline of Cell Biology and the traditional fields of interest of medical schools, namely Pathology and Clinical Medicine.

Back in Romania, always I was struggling to compete with Vladislav Rastorotsky, the great Russian coach of Lyudmila Turishcheva. He was a powerful coach, internationally. I took him like the major challenge of my life, and pretty soon I'm beating him and we are pushing each other so hard, so fierce. But out of the arena, we are friends.

In Romania it was normal that when you got a facial someone would tweeze your brows.

My suspension was a long-planned move... and was done to protect would-be convicts in Romanian politics.

Richer brows give you a sophisticated, feminine look.

I don't ever take lunch. If I were to go to lunch I would waste four hours.

I just want to be quiet wherever I go, not seeing people, not facing more pressure, because every time now I go home, I will have so many people waiting for me.

My parents were very loving, but disciplinarians.

I imagine a future aircraft, which will take off vertically, fly as usual, and land vertically. This flying machine should have no moving parts. This idea came from the huge power of cyclones.

I think to give everything I have on court is the best thing to do to win tournaments.

I set some goals: little goals first and then the big ones. I stopped thinking about big achievements.

What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?

Even when you are there on top, you feel the same nerves.

I'm not tall.

When I look back, I am happy that my mum took me to the gymnastics club. I didn't join gymnastics to become a famous athlete or celebrity; it just happened - I did more than I expected, of course.

I assure Romanians that once I return... I will try and generate a sentiment of reconciliation in society. Divisions in society must be stopped, they must be annihilated, because Romania needs all its energy to... integrate into the civilized world.

We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.

We developed a system in Romania that was very successfully continued for a number of years, but I don't know if it was because of some conflict in the organisation or whether there was government interference... but somehow, they have forgotten the importance of raising gymnasts to be ready for every Olympics.

No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.

I got bored with the topic; I felt this was 19th century physics. I was wondering if there was still something profound that could be made with light microscopy. So I saw that the diffraction barrier was the only important problem that had been left over.

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

Full brows frame and accentuate your eyes, so you can get away with wearing less liner and mascara.

You can't survive if you don't make money. But as far as I'm concerned, we never, ever make a product with the idea that we'd make a lot of money. We make products because we're inspired by the idea that people will love it.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.

If you ask me, I think knowledge is power and and being able to do your own makeup, or someone else's makeup, is power in itself.

It's difficult to keep going the good results, to feel good every tournament, every year in row.

More than ever, Romania now needs to see that a force exists that puts an end to Ponta and Antonescu's abuses and coup d'etat. This force is none other than the Romanian people.

I think that's something a scientist can do because a scientist works at a border, at the edge of science, at the edge of knowledge, and so there's a lot of fun of reaching out and thinking about things that other people didn't think about. And so it has a kind of exploratory notion, kind of adventurous part in it.

Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.

It's very hard to get to the top. It's hardest to stay at the top.

I eat leftover caviar by hand, with baked potato, like peasants.

In 1990, there were no services catering for eyebrows in Hollywood.

The most important thing is how you are as a person, and then like a professional person.

I love RuPaul.

I had more pressure when I competed in Moscow. I had no pressure in Montreal because I only went to do my routines and hoping I didn't mess it up when I was on the bar. When I came back, 10,000 people were at the airport and I thought, 'Why?' because, in my mind, I hadn't done anything different from what I used to do in my gym.

Every religion implies that it treats the problem of being and nonbeing, life and death. Their languages are different, but they speak about the same things.

The dramatic wish of Romanians at the end of the Second World War was to be occupied by the Americans and not by the Russians.

I feel thankful for everything I achieved.

I have a classic taste with a twist, because classic never goes away.

When I went to art school in Romania, we learned the Golden Ratio Technique Theory, which taught us that when you draw a portrait and want to show an emotion, you change the eyebrows. They are the most important feature on the face.

What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.

I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.

A man should not get his eyebrows shaped, he should get them groomed.

I've tried to learn something from other players and how they are really focused on the Grand Slams. I couldn't do that in the past.

I give myself little presents all the time. But I don't do extravagant things.

Eventually I realised there must be a way by playing with the molecules; trying to turn the molecules on and off allows you to see adjacent things you couldn't see before.

If you have belief in what you do, you have a great technique, good quality product and a good service, you can expand even when there is economic turmoil.

If history judges society for how it treats those in need, so markets judge economies by the incentives they provide for private investment, the infrastructure that supports growth, and the burdens placed on job creation.

I am very highly appreciated in my country, and everybody seems to love me.

I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy.

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Brows should begin directly above the middle of your nostrils. The highest point of the arch should connect the tip of the nose with the middle of the iris.

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.

No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.