Quotes About The Velvet Revolution

#1. Vaclav Havel is the figure that represents the Velvet Revolution and the reunification of Europe. He will be sorely missed.

Jerzy Buzek

#2. The main difference between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution was that the former was mostly the work of Communist party members and others who wanted to bring about 'socialism with a human face.'

Adam Michnik

#3. After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.

Leonard Cohen

#4. I think my mother had a lot of opportunity when she was a kid. She was a model, and she did a lot of things in her life, but she had no real ambition. I think my mother really did want a home and kids and all of that.

Kim Basinger

#5. Somewhere, deep within her, surfaces a tiny clockwork submarine. There are times when you can only take the next step. And then another.

William Gibson

#6. What are you doing?
Talking about hot guys, Kami informed him.
Jared said, Oh my God.
You did ask.
It's a topic of absorbing interest, Jared said. I'm sure. Obviously, as a hot guy myself, I wouldn't know.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#7. We need fresh, new leadership with bold ideas and a new approach to get more people back to work with quality jobs and restored dignity in the lives of our Utahns.

Scott Howell

#8. My dad didn't drive - the only dad I knew who didn't.

Julie Burchill

#9. The titles are born, worn, discarded, forgotten, and none of them matter.

George R R Martin

#10. A man on a mission would bring his heaviest artillery, and it looked like this guy hadn't even packed a pocket knife.

Angela Richardson

#11. It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

Franz Kafka

#12. It doesn't make you weak to forgive someone, you know" he said. "No, but it gives people another chance to hurt you.

Jamie McGuire

#13. On other shows when they get to the end of the scene, they yell 'Cut!' On Whose Line, we yell 'That's Enough!'

Drew Carey

#14. Just because they really are out to get you doesn't mean you aren't paranoid.

Steven Brust

#15. While human nature largely determines how we hear the notes, it is nurture that lets us hear the music.

Jonah Lehrer

#16. In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.

Susan Sontag