A Quote by Gyorgy Ligeti

In January 1944 I was called up by the Forced Labor Service, but I deserted on October 10, 1944.

Gyorgy Ligeti

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Gyorgy Ligeti
Hungarian - Composer
May 28, 1923 - June 12, 2006

On 24 October 1944 Planet Earth was following its orbit about the sun as it has obediently done for nearly five billion years.

James A. Michener

I was brought up in Germany, born in 1944, and there was nothing to eat.

Udo Kier

Following Greece's defeat at the hands of Turkey in 1897, Greece's fiscal house was entrusted to a Control Commission. During the 20th century, the drachma was one of the world's worst currencies. It recorded the world's sixth highest hyperinflation. In October 1944, Greece's monthly inflation rate hit 13,800%.

Steve Hanke

In psychology, trying to force others to accept the reality of a fake world is called gaslighting. It got its name from the 1944 film 'Gaslight,' in which a husband convinces his wife and their neighbors that she is insane.

Heather Cox Richardson

I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.

Gloria Swanson

I rode into the dawning world of television in 1944 on a train.

Johnny Olson

In 1944 James Arthur and Minnie Susan were added to the Marx household.

Harpo Marx

On January 10, 1963, I was sworn in as a lawyer, so next January 10 I will have practiced law for 40 years, and I've loved every minute of it.

Johnnie Cochran

I met Hilary Vaughan at a Student Ball in 1944 and we married in the summer of 1946, as soon as I graduated.

James Black

My grandfather served as a pilot with the Army Air Corps, and he was shot down over Normandy in August 1944.

Mikie Sherrill

I cannot get over the fact that I was born in 1944. I want to find out as much as I can about that year.

W. G. Sebald

Late in his life, that's another matter, [Adolf Hitler] was not the same man in 1944 and he was, say, in 1934.

Gretl Braun

Second, there were the discussions and drafts leading up to the White Paper on Employment Policy of 1944 in which the UK government accepted the maintenance of employment as an obligation of governmental policy.

James Meade

My mother was born in Latvia. She and most of her family fled from the capital city of Riga in 1944 with the final approach of the Soviet army.

Amity Gaige

I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure seemed to swing irrevocably between horror and malediction.