Jerzy Stuhr Quotes

So this is insanity. How interesting. What happens next? ~ Jerzy Kosinski

There is no response to stubbornly by many posed the question of the meaning of expeditions in the high mountains. I've never felt the need for such a definition. I walked to mountains and defeated them. That's all. ~ Jerzy Kukuczka

Had it been possible for me to fix the plane permanently in the sky, to defy the winds and clouds and all the forces pushing it upward and pulling it earthward, I would have willingly done so. I would have stayed in my seat with my eyes closed, all strength and passion gone, my mind as quiescent as a coat rack under a forgotten hat, and I would have remained there, timeless, unmeasured, unjudged, bothering no one, suspended forever between my past and my future. ~ Jerzy Kosinski

He had a clear conscience. Never used it. ~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The man who bows before the ruler, shows his behind to the courtiers ~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Do I have no soul as punishment for not believing in the soul? ~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward. ~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

I felt lost in this maze. In the world into which Gavrila was initiating me, human aspirations and expectations were entangled with each other like the roots and branches of great trees in a thick forest, each tree struggling for more moisture from the soil and more sunshine from the sky. ~ Jerzy Kosinski

Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it. ~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Love and respect are above any law ~ Uri Jerzy Nachimson

An empty envelope that is sealed contains a secret. ~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

When gossip gets old it becomes a myth. ~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels. ~ Jerzy Kosinski

I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them. ~ Jerzy Kosinski

He had found the one calm place in the midst of the storm, a quiet voice calling him to earth. ~ Jerzy Kosinski

Take a look at the books other people have in their homes. ~ Jerzy Kosinski

I wasnt political in order to be political ~ Jerzy Grotowski

I am curious about grownups, not children. ~ Jerzy Kosinski

In the Alco Ward a dispute had broken out over plagiarism. Incidentally, when I arrived there for the first time I did not have the slightest notion that I was crossing the threshold of a creative writing program, that I was entering a community of people of the pen, of writers who were incessantly creating their alcoholic autobiographies, recording their innermost feeling in cheap sixty-page notebooks that were called emotional journals, laboriously assembling their drunkard's confessions. ~ Jerzy Pilch

Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky. ~ Jerzy Kosinski

I remember how, as a boy, I used to collect the cork tips of my father's cigarettes and stick them in my stamp albums. I believed they contained his unspoken words, which one day would explain everything. I have not changed. Now I explore my memories, trying to discover the substructure hidden beneath my past actions, searching for the link to connect them all. ~ Jerzy Kosinski

Those who put blinders on their eyes should remember that the set also includes bridle and a whip. ~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

In a garden, things grow ... but first, they must wither; trees have to lose their leaves in order to put forth new leaves, and to grow thicker and stronger and taller. Some trees die, but fresh saplings replace them. Gardens need a lot of care. But if you love your garden, you don't mind working in it, and waiting. Then in the proper season you will surely see it flourish. ~ Jerzy Kosinski

When a player knows he is a slave he'll never give his employer his heart. ~ Jerzy Dudek

It's not that you aren't likable. On the contrary. You are. It's just that one wonders if you haven't made a career out of being so likable. ~ Jerzy Kosinski

Oh, to be old again," said the young corpse. ~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork? ~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership. ~ Jerzy Kosinski

Proverbs contradict each other. That is the wisdom of a nation. ~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

As a boy I got the idea that death was an animal which lay curled inside waiting to swallow us. ~ Jerzy Kosinski

Life is complicated, but not uninteresting ~ Jerzy Neyman