Top 100 Jerzy Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Jerzy

#1. Life is complicated, but not uninteresting

#2. It's the priests who have demands, not the gods.

#3. First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#4. And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have.

Jerzy Kosinski

#5. I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#6. If you want to create a masterpiece, you must always avoid beautiful lies.

Jerzy Grotowski

#7. What do I believe? I believe in God, if he exists.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#8. I suppress in my prose any language which calls attention to itself.

Jerzy Kosinski

#9. You don't die in the United States, you underachieve.

Jerzy Kosinski

#10. Those who put blinders on their eyes should remember that the set also includes bridle and a whip.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#11. You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#12. Their bodies were so close together that there was no room for real affection.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#13. People say, "Well, you went on television, it enlarged your readership." It did not at all, not at all. I might as well tell you, I lost some readership, because the profound audience felt somehow bothered by my too easy manner.

Jerzy Kosinski

#14. Even the masochists tell everything when tortured. From sheer gratitude.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#15. Never saw the branch you are sittin on, unless they are trying to hang you from it.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#16. All Gods were immortal.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#17. Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment.

Jerzy Kosinski

#18. There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital.

Jerzy Kosinski

#19. 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

#20. Every scarecrow has a secret ambition to terrorize.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#21. Pity that the only way to paradise is in a hearse.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#22. A tired exclamation mark is a question mark.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#23. "Oh to be old again," said a young corpse.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#24. Even his ignorance is encyclopedic.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#25. Our language has lost its ability to convey the spontaneous.

Jerzy Kosinski

#26. If one is seeking for Heaven on earth, has slept in geography class.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#27. The constitution of a country should not violate the constitutions of its citizens.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#28. Take whatever you can from others, and when there is nothing left, forget about them.

Jerzy Kosinski

#29. Value your words. Each one may be the last.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#30. Do I believe? God only knows.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#31. There were grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#32. She seemed to belong to that pagan, primitive kingdom of birds and forests where everything was infinitely abundant, wild, blooming, and royal in its perpetual decay, death, and rebirth; illicit and clashing with the human world.

Jerzy Kosinski

#33. Karen told me about an old woman who was the last surviving inhabitant of one of the Hermit Islands. She was the only one left who could speak her tribe's language, but the anthropologists didn't realize it and never bothered to learn it from her. When the old woman died, the language died with her.

Jerzy Kosinski

#34. When a player knows he is a slave he'll never give his employer his heart.

Jerzy Dudek

#35. I am not enough to be only in the mountains, not enough to be on an expedition. I believe that if the walks uphill, then with some goal, and that goal is to climb to the top.

Jerzy Kukuczka

#36. The song becomes the meaning itself through the vibratory qualities. When we begin to catch the vibratory qualities ... the song begins to sing us ... I don't know anymore if I am finding that song or if I am that song.

Jerzy Grotowski

#37. Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#38. Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort.

Jerzy Kosinski

#39. Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#40. There's a place beyond words where experience first occurs to which I always want to return. I suspect that whenever I articulate my thoughts or translate my impulses into words, I am betraying the real thoughts and impulses which remain hidden.

Jerzy Kosinski

#41. At first I was afraid that I would be left defenseless, that I would babble aloud the things I've always been terrified of saying. Instead, opium made me realize that I could say anything I liked without losing my identity.

Jerzy Kosinski

#42. Can the imagination, any more than the boy, be held prisoner ?"
- from the foreword to the 1976 edition of "The Painted Bird

Jerzy Kosinski

#43. Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's; and unto human beings, what?

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#44. The mob shouts with one big mouth and eats with a thousand little ones.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#45. When no wind blows, even the weathervane has character.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#46. There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.

Jerzy Kosinski

#47. Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life.

Jerzy Gregorek

#48. A fat person lives shorter but eats longer.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#49. The first condition of immortality is death.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#50. I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel.

Jerzy Kosinski

#51. I write when I feel like it, and I feel like it most of the time.

Jerzy Kosinski

#52. Young artists wish for inspired moments. And you find them; you take them; eager artists are bandits. Theatrical moments arrive, and ... you grab. Good! You know it will draw attention to you. But you aim to be more than bandits, no? So, okay ... now be Samurai.

Jerzy Grotowski

#53. Where a harsh law rules, people yearn for lawlessness.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#54. Oh, to be old again," said the young corpse.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#55. I deserve no punishment at all for being who I am.

Jerzy Kosinski

#56. It is not theatre that is indispensable, but something quite different. To cross the frontiers between you and me.

Jerzy Grotowski

#57. At the beginning there was the Word; at the end just the Cliche.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#58. I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day.

Jerzy Kosinski

#59. Do not make gods in your own images.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#60. At a time when you stay at the top, there is no explosion of happiness - happiness is experienced when everything remains in front of you, when you know that you have to a goal a few hundred, a few dozen meters when you are right in front. This is the time of happiness.

Jerzy Kukuczka

#61. A man who is a genius and doesn't know it, probably isn't.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#62. Ruined chimneys rose above masses of broken bricks

Jerzy Kosinski

#63. Within a month of intense life in the mountains is going through so much, what used to be a period of several years; This is a occupancy for people greedy for life - human life is not enough.

Jerzy Kukuczka

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

Jerzy Kosinski

#65. Chance was to work in the garden, where he would care for plants and grasses and trees which grew there peacefully. He would be as one on them: quiet, open hearted in the sunshine and heavy when it rained.

Jerzy Kosinski

#66. When gossip gets old it becomes a myth.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#67. Puritans should wear fig leaves on their eyes.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#68. I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.

Jerzy Kosinski

#69. Many who had been ahead of their time, had to wait for her in very uncomfortable quarters.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#70. The moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#71. Even the voice of conscience undergoes mutation.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#72. Actors should arouse a sense of wonder because of their ability to exceed what the spectators can envision ever being able to do.

Jerzy Grotowski

#73. My cynicism continuously undermines her faith in her own ability to master her moods.

Jerzy Kosinski

#74. Do I have no soul as punishment for not believing in the soul?

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#75. The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#76. A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.

Jerzy Kosinski

#77. The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#78. The popular culture says ... Do what you do, your life is predestined, like the installment plan on your house. There's not much you can do about it. Make your payments, live it, get sick, die, don't make any trouble. It is the Master Charge of destiny. Try to get your high credit rating.

Jerzy Kosinski

#79. Who ever asked theses and antitheses if they want to become syntheses?

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#80. In London, the weather would affect me negatively. I react strongly to light. If it is cloudy and raining, there are clouds and rain in my soul.

Jerzy Kosinski

#81. Many who tried to enlighten were hanged from the lamppost.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#82. Living is an arbitrary matter and I have every right to renounce it.

Jerzy Kosinski

#83. When reasons are weak, attitudes stiffen.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#84. Like nature, our economic system remains, in the long run, stable and rational ... We welcome the inevitable seasons of our economy! How foolish of us.

Jerzy Kosinski

#85. The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation.

Jerzy Kosinski

#86. I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me.

Jerzy Kosinski

#87. The recent Dictionary of Occupational Titles lists over twenty thousand specialized professions in America; being a millionaire is not one of them.

Jerzy Kosinski

#88. I always have a sense of trembling, but so does a compass, after all.

Jerzy Kosinski

#89. An error becomes an error when born as truth.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#90. Since the boss said I would play, I've been thinking I should kiss the penalty spot, the grass and the post. I think every Liverpool player should do that.

Jerzy Dudek