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Quotes by Romanian Authors
"We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us."
"If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything."
"Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth."
"I ended up in the US for a month or so, before moving to Montreal with some Romanian friends."
"The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth."
"When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit."
"The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it."
"Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls."
"Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off."
"How do you know who s the leader? When he says nothing, but everybody understands what has to be done."
"Failure is just another give way sign, not a stop sign."
"You don t need a stage to prove that you re a bad speaker."
"Love cares about you. Leadership carries you."
"Inspiration ends when reading ends."
"He Loved perfectly an unperfect me."
"When you're about to judge, look in the mirror and start."
"I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual."
"The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary."
"Everyone has a business idea. But few have a team... and very few a vision."
"Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers."
"For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion."
"Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness."
"I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that."
"Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself."
"Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers."
"The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster."
"My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything."
"Speaking doesn t make you a Leader, but if you have Leadership skills, people want to hear you speak."
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