Wojciech Kilar Quotes & Sayings

Please forgive my appearance. I am lately come from setting a house on fire. — Clare Boylan

Do not complain beneath the stars about the lack of bright spots in your life. — Bjornstjerne Bjornson

I declare the 20th Winter Games closed. I call upon the youth of the world to assemble four years from now in Vancouver, to celebrate the 21st Olympic Winter Games. — Jacques Rogge

One of the main discoveries of meditation is seeing how we continually run away from the present moment, how we avoid being here just as we are. — Pema Chodron

America doesn't know today how proud she ought to be of her Ingersoll. — Walt Whitman

Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You're tired, you've had a headache since you arrived, but you can't leave because then you'd miss the party. — Simon Hoggart

There's no love without pain. — Irving Stone

God bless this encyclopedic Mr. Google, whoever he was. — Jason Heller

The authenticity aspect is pretty important to me. When we have to compromise and do something that's not authentic, it really rubs me, every time I have to see it in the edit, which is millions of times. — Cary Fukunaga

When the possesor of truth was weak and the defender of the lie was strong, was it better to bend before the greater force? Or, by standing firm against it, might one discover a deaper strength in oneself and lay the despot low? When the soldiers of truth launched a thousand ships and burned the topless towers of the lie, should they be seen as liberators or had they, by using their enemy's weapons against him, themselves become the scorned barbarians whose houses they had set on fire? What were the limits of tolerance? How far, in the pursuit of the right, could we go before we crossed a line, arrived at the antipodes of ourselves, and became wrong? — Salman Rushdie