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Quotes by Polish Authors
"We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface."
"The time has come to formulate guidelines for the ethical conduct of scientist, perhaps in the form of a voluntary Hippocratic Oath."
"Indeed, the whole human species is endangered, by nuclear weapons or by other means of wholesale destruction which further advances in science are likely to produce."
"Even better, there were established two separate committees deciding on state film funding."
"Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison. I am near, too near for him to dream of me."
"Underground literature only began in the '70s, when technical developments made it possible. Before that, we were involved in a game with the censors. That was our struggle."
"In the first years after the systemic transition, our screens showed American entertainment that had not been available before, or had been available only sporadically."
"His words - the gift of expression, the bewildering, the iluminating, the most exalted and the most contemptible, the pulsating stream of light or the deceitful flow from the heart of an impenetrable darkness."
"All that I can tell you is, that I used my humble powers to the uttermost, and raised my voice in behalf of Human Rights in general, and the elevation and Rights of Woman in particular, nearly all my life."
"You name it, we had it. It won't happen again. You're not going to duplicate this show."
"He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor."
"It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker."
"Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands."
"When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself."
"Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile."
"At rest, however, in the middle of everything is the sun."
"You know, this whole thing about Ricky Martin, and how successful that young man is. He's 27, I was 29."
"I made the right decisions, I set everything on the right course, the reforms are going in the right direction."
"I argue that the Talmud is about the constant struggle to understand."
"I had a flight trainer who is one of the biggest and most famous helicopter pilots the world."
"Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings."
"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."
"The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands."
"Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth."
"There is simply no room for anti-Semitism in a democratic and law-abiding state."
"No one could possibly look all the time like my photographs. It is dreadfully hard to live up to them. They stare at me everywhere."
"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."
"He was just a word for me. I did not see the man in the name any more than you do. Do you see him? Do you see the story? Do you see anything?"
"There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God."
"Cities are the greatest creations of humanity."
"This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of civilization."
"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."
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