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Quotes by Polish Authors
"Social democracy... is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh."
"All the time our union was progressing very nicely. There were lectures to make us understand what trades unionism is and our real position in the labor movement."
"You know, this whole thing about Ricky Martin, and how successful that young man is. He's 27, I was 29."
"Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy."
"Where do consequences lead? Depends on the escort."
"And I think to be in NATO for the countries of our region, it means more guarantees for us, it means more responsibility for our common security, but it means fulfillment of all standards of civilized world, like protection of human rights and democratic mechanisms."
"Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality."
"Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin."
"Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership."
"Films made in the spirit of the past continued to be made."
"You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers."
"No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority."
"First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent."
"And it is very moving because one has to see the site not as just another site of development but it is a very special site. It is a site that souls and hearts of all Americans."
"Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built."
"Reign of Fire is something I know how to do, because I've played tough so much."
"Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past."
"The official independence celebration was going to be held over four or five days, and a group of journalists from all over the world was allowed to fly in, because Angola was closed otherwise."
"Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice."
"This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of civilization."
"The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart."
"It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life."
"I don't know where Bush is going - yet. But, Sharon obviously - I wrote somewhere in the last several months, that Sharon has adopted, essentially, the position of the Labor Party: that the Palestinians are here to stay."
"Eventually, the state's funding covered only the stages leading to presenting a film project to potential funding bodies. It was enough to produce a script, indicate casting and put together a budget to present it all, but nothing beyond that."
"The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth."
"Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings."
"When a man comes to me and tries to convince me that he is not a thief, then I take care of my coppers."
"All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look."
"As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook."
"I was born in Poland I came to Sweden when I was eight and always wanted to act and suddenly ended up in a Bond movie which was for me at that time absolutely enormous."
"It was progressively more difficult to find work in the theatre, as well."
"The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process."
"I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day."
"The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims."
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