Sienkiewicz V Quotes & Sayings

It seems incredible that a man possessing so many conditions of happiness should be not only so little happy, but clearly does not see the reason why he should exist at all. It — Henryk Sienkiewicz

My position is such that there is no necessity for me to enter into competition with struggling humanity. As to expensive and ruinous pleasures, I am a sceptic who knows how much they are worth, or rather, knows that they are not worth anything. — Henryk Sienkiewicz

Poland! Poland! The very name carries with it sighings and groanings, nation-murder, brilliance, beauty, patriotism, splendors, self-sacrifice through generations of gallant men and exquisite women; indomitable endurance of bands of noble people carrying through world-wide exile the sacred fire of wrath against the oppressor, and uttering in every clime a cry of appeal to Humanity to rescue Poland. — Henryk Sienkiewicz

Walking along the avenues, we had one of the so-called intellectual conversations, which consist a great deal in quoting names of books and authors. — Henryk Sienkiewicz

So, when the special effects are at the service of the story and draw you into it, that is really the magic. — Bill Sienkiewicz

He always smiles, even when contemplating nothing good. — Henryk Sienkiewicz

Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something. — Bill Sienkiewicz

If somebody can inspire me, it feels really special. — Bill Sienkiewicz

Day is like day as two beads in a rosary, unless changes of weather form the only variety. — Henryk Sienkiewicz

Tell me,' asked Stas, 'what is a wicked deed?' 'If anyone takes away Kali's cow,' he answered after a brief reflection, 'that then is a wicked deed.' 'Excellent!' exclaimed Stas, 'and what is a good one?' This time the answer came without any reflection: 'If Kali takes away the cow of somebody else, that is a good deed.' Stas was too young to perceive that similar views of evil and good deeds were enunciated in Europe not only by politicians but by whole nations. — Henryk Sienkiewicz

Ah me! what torture to have to deal with virtue, cold and merciless as the letter of the law! — Henryk Sienkiewicz

Sometimes I have thought that human misery goes far beyond human imagination, - imagination has its limits, and misery, like the vast seas, appears to be without end. — Henryk Sienkiewicz

I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work. — Bill Sienkiewicz

Kyle Baker's work is really funny, but it's also got a very clear vision. — Bill Sienkiewicz

I know from experience that to one who thinks much and feels deeply, it often seems that he has only to put down his thoughts and feelings in order to produce something altogether out of the common; yet as soon as he sets to work he falls into a certain mannerism of style and common phraseology; his thoughts do not come spontaneously, and one might almost say that it is not the mind that directs the pen, but the pen leads the mind into common, empty artificiality. — Henryk Sienkiewicz

I am reading Sienkiewicz. What tormenting reading. What a powerful genius! And there never was such a first-rate writer of the second-rate class. — Witold Gombrowicz

There is a whole generation of people who are going to see movies or watch TV who don't want to work. — Bill Sienkiewicz

Bright, dreadful flashes of lightning rent the darkness and Kali's reply was drowned by a peal of thunder which shook heaven and the wilderness. Simultaneously a whirlwind broke out, tugged the boughs of the tree swept away in the twinkling of an eye the camp-fire, seized the embers, still burning under the ashes, and carried them with sheaves of sparks into the jungle. — Henryk Sienkiewicz

There was only one who understood me, and he understood me wrongly." Miss — Henryk Sienkiewicz

And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to say. — Bill Sienkiewicz

There, about a dozen times during the day, the wind drives over the sky the swollen clouds, which water the earth copiously, after which the sun shines brightly, as if freshly bathed, and floods with a golden luster the rocks, the river, the trees, and the entire jungle. — Henryk Sienkiewicz

After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators. — Bill Sienkiewicz

So much of 'Jaws' was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing. — Bill Sienkiewicz

They did not, however, infect the air as the Sudanese sun dried them up like mummies; all had the hue of gray parchment, and were so much alike that the bodies of the Europeans, Egyptians, and negroes could not be distinguished from each other. — Henryk Sienkiewicz

Expectancy of anything is always oppressive. When — Henryk Sienkiewicz

Own single law; Hei! be amazed, grow not enraged! thou in thy — Henryk Sienkiewicz

Besides, my old opinions - at least, the greater part of them - are now in tatters, like a worn-out garment. But — Henryk Sienkiewicz

If you consider yourself a superior type, or even if you be such, let me tell you that the sum total of such superiority, is socially, a minus quantity." I — Henryk Sienkiewicz

Evidently the merit depends on the result of the work. — Henryk Sienkiewicz

The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness. — Henryk Sienkiewicz