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Quotes by Hungarian Authors
"It is true that we aspire to our ancient land. But what we want in that ancient land is a new blossoming of the Jewish spirit."
"The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance."
"Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness."
"Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol."
"Once I completed the Cube and demonstrated it to my students, I realized it was nearly impossible to put down."
"Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless."
"The Jews had, as a matter of fact, long been all along the most ingenious entrepreneurs. It was only our own future that we had never built upon a business basis."
"Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one."
"In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity."
"We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm."
"The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies."
"Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought."
"Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity."
"I wanted to get away from my past and everything connected with it."
"The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards."
"Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed."
"In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution."
"The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers."
"Our opponents maintain that we are confronted with insurmountable political obstacles, but that may be said of the smallest obstacle if one has no desire to surmount it."
"It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer."
"I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime."
"It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities."
"The criminalization of marijuana did not prevent marijuana from becoming the most widely used illegal substance in the United States and many other countries. But it did result in extensive costs and negative consequences."
"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems."
"Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words."
"What We want is to make it possible for our unfortunate people to live a life of industry for it is by steady work alone that we hope for our physical and moral rehabilitation. For this reason above all we have undertaken to rally our people around our ideal."
"I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer."
"Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns with an extremely intense heat."
"I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?"
"It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy."
"Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist."
"A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense."
"There are three signs of senility. The first sign is that a man forgets his theorems. The second sign is that he forgets to zip up. The third sign is that he forgets to zip down."
"The character of a people may be ruined by charity."
"My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory."
"The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist."
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