Cezary Gmyz Quotes & Sayings

Out of this unstable mix of technocracy and national security you have a nostalgia developing for colonialism or religion - atavistic in my opinion, but some people want them back. Sadat is the great example of that: he threw out the Russians, as well as everything else that represented Abdel Nasser, ascendant nationalism, and so forth - and said, "Let the Americans come." Then you have a new period of what in Arabic is called an infitah - in other words, an opening of the country to a new imperialism: technocratic management, not production but services - tourism, hotels, banking, etc. That's where we are right now. — Edward W. Said

I am an alien, I have extraordinary powers, with more to come, and I can do things that no human would dream of, but I still look like a fool. — Pittacus Lore

Science can improve lives in ways that are elegant in design and moving in practice. — Harold E. Varmus

The last motive in the world for acquiring vocabulary should be to impress. Words should be acquired because we urgently need them - to convey, to reach, to express something within us, and to understand others. — Vanna Bonta

he was more than a little daunted by her brain power. He thought she could probably take over the world. Yet — Veronica Henry

You all want to be the sea. But you're not the sea, you're just a raindrop. — Stephen Kelman

Rumor forces us to act before we are ready, or ruins a situation before it becomes fully ripe. — Patrick Rothfuss

Well, I'm not going to go into what the letter says, because the police are looking at that. But as you say it's in Bahasa. But of course that's not to suggest that the letter came from outside of Australia. It came from in Australia. It came from Victoria. — Alexander Downer

Happiness is a good business these days, more you talk crap about happiness the large number of crowd you will gather. — Santosh Kalwar

I loved flawed art. Michelangelo's statue of Lorenzo with its warped base that rose to accommodate his foot, the Mona Lisa's missing eyebrows. Flaws were seriously underrated. They were beautiful if you looked at them just so. — Tarryn Fisher