Alfred Polgar Quotes

#1. When everyone leaves you it's loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it's solitude.

Alfred Polgar

#2. It is the destiny of the emigrant that the foreign land does not become his homeland: his homeland becomes foreign.

Alfred Polgar

#3. I broke open a boiled peanut and popped the nut in my mouth.

Alessandra Torre

#4. The striking aphorism requires a stricken aphorist.

Alfred Polgar

#5. In a word, why were they not men at worst, when at best they ought to be more of men than other men?
And here lay the difficulty: by no effort could I get the face before me to fit into the clerical mould which I had all ready in my own mind for it.

George MacDonald

#6. You can't build walls and then be mad when no one wants to climb over them.

Amy Harmon

#7. When you have a good script you're almost in more trouble than when you have a terrible script.

Robert Downey Jr.

#8. The law protects nothing in that very respect, in which it is, at the same time, in the eye of the law, a crime.

William Murray, 1st Earl Of Mansfield

#9. Work is what you do so that sometime you won't have to do it anymore.

Alfred Polgar

#10. Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather. He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Alfred Polgar

#11. It would be a miracle, for example, if I dropped a stone and it rose upwards. But is it no miracle that it falls to the ground?

Alfred Polgar

#12. It is best never to have been born. But who among us has such luck? One in a million, perhaps.

Alfred Polgar

#13. A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.

Amelia Barr

#14. Every moment was a before and an after. Every moment was a now to be lived.

Tammara Webber

#15. Some McDonald's restaurants are taking reservations on Valentine's Day. They are getting a lot of tables for one.

Conan O'Brien

#16. band behind them. The crowd moved and shifted. Tickertape and confetti fluttered down from the second- and third-floor windows of the business

Stephen King

#17. It ain't over at 40. I haven't crested the best part of my career.

Geneva Carr

#18. Madonna, as we know, is very difficult,

Giorgio Armani

#19. Piracy is important to talk about. It's harming the music industry. It hurts all of us. The public needs to understand every time they buy a pirated CD, they hurt the industry. The only ones who can change that are the fans and the people that buy CDs. It's everybody's responsibility to prevent it.

Luis Miguel

#20. Outside of society, if you're looking that's where you'll find me.

Patti Smith