When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
STANISLAW J. LEC Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.
STANISLAW J. LEC The first condition of immortality is death.
STANISLAW J. LEC You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
STANISLAW J. LEC The consumer's side of the coffin lid is never ostentatious.
STANISLAW J. LEC Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's; and unto hu...
STANISLAW J. LEC Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.
STANISLAW J. LEC I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.
STANISLAW J. LEC There are grammatical errors even in his silence.
STANISLAW J. LEC People find life entirely too time-consuming.
STANISLAW J. LEC All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.
STANISLAW J. LEC Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.
STANISLAW J. LEC Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
STANISLAW J. LEC If you are not a psychiatrist, stay away from idiots. They are too stupid to pay a layman for his co...
STANISLAW J. LEC Do not ask God the way to heaven; he will show you the hardest one.
STANISLAW J. LEC The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.
STANISLAW J. LEC If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky?
STANISLAW J. LEC Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding fr...
STANISLAW J. LEC There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never wer...
STANISLAW J. LEC Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
STANISLAW LEC Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.
STANISLAW LEC People find life entirely too time-consuming.
STANISLAW LEC The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.
STANISLAW LEC Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pou...
STANISLAW LEC No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
STANISLAW LEC When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
STANISLAW LEC The first requisite for immortality is death.
STANISLAW LEC Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?
STANISLAW LEC There are grammatical errors even in his silence.
STANISLAW LEC The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.
STANISLAW LEC He who limps is still walking.
STANISLAW LEC The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper. - Unkempt Thoughts, 1962.
STANISLAW LEC Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork?
STANISLAW LEC Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC People find life entirely too time-consuming.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC Value your words. Each one may be the last.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC Telling lies does not work in advertising.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and i...
STANISLAW JERZY LEC The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC The first requisite for immortality is death.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?
STANISLAW JERZY LEC The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography?
STANISLAW JERZY LEC You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC Only the dead can be resurrected. It's more difficult with the living.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC I give you bitter pills in sugar coating. The pills are harmless: the poison is in the sugar.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC The weakest link in the chain is also the strongest. It can break the chain.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC Oare omul a ieşit mai repede din cuvânt decât din peşteră?
STANISLAW JERZY LEC Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him
STANISLAW JERZY LEC A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pou...
STANISLAW JERZY LEC Every now and then you meet a man whose ignorance is encyclopedic.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC When everything has to be right, something isn't.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC The success of Heine -- to become a world-famous 'unkown poet.'
STANISLAW JERZY LEC To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?
STANISLAW JERZY LEC You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC You have to decide, even to hesitate
STANISLAW JERZY LEC Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a ...
STANISLAW J. LEM Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.
STANISLAW LEM To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.
STANISLAW LESZCZYNSKI Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.
STANISLAW LEM Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.
STANISLAW LEM It is still an unending source of surprise for me how a few scribbles on a blackboard or on a piece ...
STANISLAW ULAM Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?
STANISLAW LEM You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
STANISLAW LEM No-one has held back. They have put some definition around the numbers and now we have to wait for t...
JOSEPH STANISLAW The figure depends on how the cuts are delivered. No one is really expecting the full 2 million barr...
JOSEPH STANISLAW If they come up with strong announcements about the agreed cuts it could easily see $1 to $1.50 adde...
JOSEPH STANISLAW If they can make the deal stick for a year - not three months - that will knock all of the excess su...
JOSEPH STANISLAW He heard everything. He heard the square, he heard the prayer, the presence of the young people, the...
STANISLAW DZIWISZ No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
STANISłAW JERZY LEC Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?
STANISłAW JERZY LEC When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
STANISłAW JERZY LEC Den Blick in die Welt kann man mit einer Zeitung versperren.
STANISłAW JERZY LEC My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something th...
J. J. WATT No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short tur...
J. J. WATT When I picture myself after football, it's down home, coaching high school football, just a rela...
J. J. WATT I know that I'm going out there, and I know that I am going to get hit in the head. I know that&...
J. J. WATT Since my sophomore year in high school, I knew I didn't want to do anything but be a professiona...
J. J. WATT If you're an outsider looking into my life, you're thinking, 'That dude is crazy. He'...
J. J. WATT Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out ...
J. J. WATT I get a lot of letters that say, 'I'm a normal, down-to-earth girl. I love to cook, and I lo...
J. J. WATT My dad's a firefighter, so I know what it's like for policemen and firefighters to be on the...
J. J. WATT If you're going to nap, make sure you have a proper chunk of time blocked out. I'm not one o...
J. J. WATT I will always do what I can to help others, but when I retire, I want to be a dad and a husband. I w...
J. J. WATT When it comes down to that moment, when it's me against you, you know in your head whether you w...
J. J. WATT You have to find the right situation, and you have to be in that right mindset where you can give ev...
J. J. WATT I ate a whole 20-inch pizza by myself one time.
J. J. WATT A reputation takes years and years and years to build, and it takes one press of a button to ruin it...
J. J. WATT I'll fight a bear, but I don't like spiders. I'm not a fan of those.
J. J. WATT I never want to let a day go by without having done something to get a little better.
J. J. WATT There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face jus...
J. J. WATT I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
J. J. WATT People always ask, 'Man, why don't you come out and enjoy it? Why don't you celebrate? W...
J. J. WATT A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ...
J. J. WATT If you don't have that vision for the end goal, you have no clue where you're going, and you...
J. J. WATT I want to go out and chase greatness. That's all I want to do.
J. J. WATT Midi is my hobby.
J. J. JOHNSON There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the l...
J. J. JOHNSON I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood...
J. J. JOHNSON Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've ...
J. J. JOHNSON We have this obsession with broken homes. Everyone wants to find a problem with it, but not me. I ha...
J. J. FIELD You can win a talent show and be so famous that you can't walk down the street, but no-one knows...
J. J. FIELD The two cities I've found very hard to leave in my life were New York and Buenos Aires.
J. J. FIELD The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage...
J. J. ABRAMS I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.
J. J. ABRAMS I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten.
J. J. ABRAMS I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.
J. J. ABRAMS When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid t...
J. J. ABRAMS People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be su...
J. J. ABRAMS The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.
J. J. ABRAMS I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, ...
J. J. ABRAMS I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do.
J. J. ABRAMS Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.
J. J. ABRAMS Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.
J. J. ABRAMS I don't think I have a signature.
J. J. ABRAMS I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginat...
J. J. ABRAMS I think that even if you're wondering if two characters are ever going to kiss, drawing out the ...
J. J. ABRAMS I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a...
J. J. ABRAMS I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end...
J. J. ABRAMS When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.
J. J. ABRAMS You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
J. J. ABRAMS To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.
J. J. ABRAMS I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.
J. J. ABRAMS We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
J. J. ABRAMS It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.
J. J. ABRAMS When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and t...
J. J. ABRAMS Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles ...
J. J. ABRAMS You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
J. J. ABRAMS When budget cuts happen - which has been happening a lot in this country - after-school athletics an...
J. J. WATT I'm not strict on my calorie count; I just pay attention to my body.
J. J. WATT There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.
J. J. PROCTER If you want to be remembered as great, if you want to be a legend, you have to go out there every si...
J. J. WATT I obviously would love to have a girlfriend, but a girlfriend deserves so much of your time and ener...
J. J. WATT What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends.
J. J. WATT I'm obsessed with things that are distinctly analogue.
J. J. ABRAMS Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.
J. J. FURNAS What's a bigger mystery box than a movie theater? You go to the theater, you're just so exci...
J. J. ABRAMS My dad was a firefighter for almost 30 years. My mom worked her way up from a secretary to vice pres...
J. J. WATT I'm sure I frustrate the trainers - in fact, I know I frustrate the trainers to no end. But I th...
J. J. WATT What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically...
J. J. ABRAMS With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.
J. J. ABRAMS You can find just about everything on my iPod from Eminem to Zac Brown to Justin Timberlake to One D...
J. J. WATT My family is a middle-class family. When I grew up and learned how much it actually cost for us to p...
J. J. WATT When you're in the National Football League, and you get this window where all eyes are on you, ...
J. J. WATT Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing ...
J. J. ABRAMS I Googled 'What do rich people buy?' Because I don't feel like a rich person, and I don&...
J. J. WATT Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that ...
J. J. ABRAMS It's hard to understand the life that I live and rationalize some of the things that I do. I don...
J. J. WATT In the off-season, I train twice a day, five times a week with my trainer. Then, there's always ...
J. J. WATT The way I look at it is that somebody in the world, no matter what your field is - teacher, violinis...
J. J. WATT You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, ...
J. J. ABRAMS I love the Stanley Cup playoffs.
J. J. WATT There is a malaise that exists in your land - what appears to many as the sudden and tragic disappea...
J. J. GREENE I'm a fast writer.
J. J. ABRAMS There are games where I go a whole game without saying a word. There are games where I'm talking...
J. J. WATT It's literally, if I'm not working out, I eat the whole time I'm not working out. It'...
J. J. WATT It's pretty neat to be able to help the team in different ways.
J. J. WATT I work on holidays. I work on birthdays. I work on New Year's. I work. I keep my ears to the str...
JUICY J I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listen...
J. COLE If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My mo...
J. COLE You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you...
J. COLE I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, ...
J. COLE Usually I like to have them, but going drum-less pushes everything in a new direction and makes it e...
J MASCIS I play a Fender Jazzmaster and three stacks and a combo, two old Marshall Plexis and a Hiwatt combo ...
J MASCIS 'No Bones' has some reverb that I kick around.
J MASCIS You might as well play at the show everyone else is playing at.
J MASCIS I was just reading about Paul Simon in 'Uncut', and it was fascinating. I never think about ...
J MASCIS People have to do what they want to do.
J MASCIS All labels are offensive in some way.
J MASCIS Yeah, you know, I'm always into cassette. At least they seem to be the longest-lasting medium we...
J MASCIS I've always worn earplugs, but I'm sure my hearing's not great.
J MASCIS It's harder to play drums than guitar, physically. I'm always kind of on the edge. I guess t...
J MASCIS I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
J MASCIS I enjoy having some boundaries to work within. That's why I generally don't like alternate t...
J MASCIS I've never liked rehearsing too much.
J MASCIS When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough.
J MASCIS Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.
J MASCIS It's good to have certain restrictions sometimes, but it's definitely more fun to play reall...
J MASCIS I prefer cynical people. Nice guys grow on trees.
J MASCIS The chips are in production, the machines aren't. So we've got a little bit of work left to ...
J ALLARD We're going to do something that's really unprecedented in the industry by launching the con...
J ALLARD Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.
J ALLARD Having wires strewn across your couch and across the floor is a big deal to a lot of people.
J ALLARD