A Quote by Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Illiterates have to dictate.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Polish - Poet
March 6, 1909 - May 7, 1966

Insights into erotic life belong to art, not education. But sometimes these have to be spelled out for the illiterates. And it ismainly a matter of convincing the illiterates, for they are the ones who write the penal code.

Karl Kraus

In a play, you dictate pace, you dictate rhythm, you dictate when people look at you, when people should be looking at something else. In film, the editor does that.

Oscar Isaac

Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.

Werner Herzog

I don't dictate, you don't dictate to Stevie Wonder, not successfully.

Spike Lee

I don't dictate the solos and I don't dictate the vocal harmonies.

Dan Hicks

I remember once doing a benefit for a Jewish charity and wearing an enormous cross. I kind of don't let the audience dictate anything to me. I sort of dictate to them, and they better be on board.

Lisa Lampanelli

Film should be looked at straight on; it is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

Werner Herzog

The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.

Alberto Moravia

Children are entitled to life. We conceive them and so we owe them our care and our protection. This may not be a dictate of law anymore, but it is a dictate of love.

Matt Walsh

Instead, we were given a publication called the Weekly Reader, which was like a newspaper for four-foot illiterates.

Chuck Klosterman

They become the keepers of the mystery. They place themselves between the communicants of the religion, and the immediate experience. And then they dictate the terms on which you can have contact with this wonderful mystery. We don't dictate those terms.

Larry Harvey

But for their right to judge of the law, and the justice of the law, juries would be no protection to an accused person, even as to matters of fact; for, if the government can dictate to a jury any law whatever, in a criminal case, it can certainly dictate to them the laws of evidence.

Lysander Spooner

The idea of a talent that was bigger than an artist's ability to choose to use it, that would dictate the artist's life more than the artist could dictate, was interesting to me.

Alexander Chee

The truth is, I could no more dictate her nature than she could dictate mine. Kinsey's happy as she is and she doesn't need to be rescued, improved, or saved.

Sue Grafton

I know what I am getting into with heavyweights. Not one of them can dictate against me because, firstly, they don't have feet fast enough. Secondly, while there are far better athletes and stronger fighters than me, even some who are quicker, they don't have the ring IQ I have. It allows me to dictate.