Wislawa Szymborska Quotes

You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.

Wislawa Szymborska

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

YouFindCosmosObjectsRemarkable

If you don't toot your own horn, it goeth untooted.

Joe R. Lansdale

YouOwnYourHorn

One of the reasons that I take such joy in being a trustee of the New York Public Library is the love of reading that I found as a child in the Saturday morning library events for preschoolers and first and second graders as I was growing up in Augusta, GA.

Jessye Norman

LoveMorningJoyNew YorkChild

I have a closet full of blazers and more striped shirts than any human could possibly wear. Somehow I think that I don't have striped shirts, and then I look at my closet and go, 'Oh, I have ten.' But then you always end up with your favourite striped shirt of the moment, and you don't end up wearing any of the other ones.

Jennifer Morrison

MomentThinkEndYouLookGo

Conscience is the most dangerous thing you possess. If you wake it up, it may destroy you. To live a life of total moral rigor is not necessarily the way to go. It's the path for very few people. Most people need to come up with some kind of middle ground that satisfies their practical, moral, and philosophical esthetic needs.

John Patrick Shanley

LifeLivePathPeopleYouDangerous

The stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It's definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll.

Amanda Palmer

Rock And RollRockBandStageJeans

Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool.

Sophocles

LoveFoolUpLikeBoxerWhoever

I will treat everyone equally and be a servant of the Egyptian people.

Mohammed Morsi

PeopleTreatWillEveryoneServant

I don't really wear sarees and suits.

Disha Patani

SuitsWearReally

It's not a failure if a marriage or partnership ends after a certain number of years. I think, in general, we expect too much of partners. We can't fulfil a person's every single need and, after ten years or so, many relationships wear out. If we were more philosophical about it, we wouldn't try to blame the other person or be bitter.

Deborah Moggach

FailureMarriageBlameThinkPerson

Optimizing return on capital will generate less growth than optimizing return on education.

Clayton M. Christensen

EducationGrowthWillReturnCapital

As entrepreneurs, we must constantly dream and have the conviction and obsession to transform our dreams into reality - to create a future that never existed before.

Clara Shih

DreamsFutureRealityDreamCreate

When what's around you - such as scripts, or like me being on the show and playing 18, now me doing this film playing 18 - it's kind of been what's been there for me.

Shane West

MeDoingYouNowKindPlaying

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