Wislawa Szymborska Quotes

Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

Wislawa Szymborska

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: polish
  • Birth: July 2, 1923 - February 1, 2012

Topics

WorkGoodRespectI AmPoetry

I always polish my shoes and clean the bottom of them before I go out. I also wipe my handbags. I keep them in little bags to stop them getting dusty. You have to keep your accessories looking smart and clean.

Jerry Hall

ShoesSmartLookingYouStopGo

For Mr. Putin, vacillation invites aggression. His world is a brutish, cynical place, where power is worshiped, weakness is despised, and all rivalries are zero-sum.

John McCain

PowerWorldWeaknessPlaceCynical

If you want to make films, you'll watch Kurosawa. If you want to play a violin, you listen to Seghetti. Same with somebody who has the ambition to play in the NBA. I watch a basketball game; I enjoy it. Somebody who really wants to learn to play is studying whatever is most magnificent that's going on out there.

Robert Pinsky

AmbitionBasketballGameLearnEnjoy

I'm a proud Australian, a very, very proud Australian.

Steve Irwin

ProudAustralianVery

There are real-world, devastating consequences for disabled women marginalised by the kinds of attitudes that deny them full agency over what happens to their bodies.

Stella Young

WomenConsequencesOverHappensFull

If your child marches to a different beat, a different drummer, you might just have to go along with that music. Help them achieve what's important to them.

Sonia Sotomayor

MusicChildHelpYouAchieveGo

Whether I am performing for an elite crowd or a crowd of 20,000 people - the moment someone asks for 'Agneepath,' and I respond 'Agneepath' chahiye?' the noise in the crowd, shows that this song has become huge.

Sonu Nigam

MomentI AmPeopleSongSomeone

Relativism should be confronted where it damages fundamental human rights, because we're not relativists if we believe that the human being should be at the centre of society and the rights of every human being should be respected.

Rocco Buttiglione

SocietyBelieveHumanRightsWhere

In high school I was making beats for my friends and for myself and rapping over them.

Mike Shinoda

MyselfSchoolHigh SchoolFriends

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

LifeManLaughMoreOverOver It

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

Jules Renard

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If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.

Brian Eno

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