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Quotes by Polish Authors
"Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars."
"At the entrance, my bare feet on the dirt floor, Here, gusts of heat; at my back, white clouds. I stare and stare. It seems I was called for this: To glorify things just because they are."
"First of all, we must note that the universe is spherical."
"Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit."
"I then remained in Berlin until Dec. 1938, spending my time between pictures at my villa on the Riviera."
"If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom."
"We have tried you good people of the public and we have found you wanting."
"Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle. I go for recognition of human rights, without distinction of sect, party, sex, or color."
"I may be boring, but it would be to wake up by my dog and then my daughter."
"Alas, in 1929 came the Stock Market crash and everything changed and became worrisome. People started practicing conservatism because of financial losses, myself included."
"Yes, I was correctly quoted in saying I introduced sex into films in the 20's, but it was sex in good taste and left a great deal to one's imagination."
"Well, I didn't want to have the reminder sort of in the sky, so that people would forever look at it. I wanted to have - really to create a city from the bottom up. From that foundation, which held, from the democratic power of what the site really is."
"Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys."
"Whether you are sixteen or over sixty, remember, understatement is the rule of a fine makeup artist."
"The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author."
"She had her reward! - that reward of which no enemie could deprive her, which no slanders could make less precious - the eternal reward of knowing that she had done her duty."
"If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures."
"In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility."
"The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed."
"Larry wanted us to reposition the tower. We wouldn't, and won't. He's been holding back our fees. We want to get paid. And that's it. It'll get solved and we'll carry on with planning Ground Zero."
"It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph."
"And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel and concrete and glass, but as really the substance of the American Dream."
"God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance."
"I shall now recall to mind that the motion of the heavenly bodies is circular, since the motion appropriate to a sphere is rotation in a circle."
"I was the good Bond girl, but I wanted to have the dresses and the high heels. I wanted the funky, sexy name."
"I'm so lucky to be in a situation that I can always have my daughter with me."
"France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything."
"Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends."
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