Slovak Quotes

#1. I still miss my gramma. I can see her at the farm, in her apron, babushka and support stockings. My Slovak gramma spoiled us with pig in the blankets, kalachi, pop, chips and a drawer full of lollipops. It was heaven.

Regina Brett

#2. Spring and summer 1942 was probably the worst period of internal terror in Slovakia. It was also the time of mass deportation of Slovak Jews to the extermination camps in Poland.

Alexander Dubcek

#3. The word "robot" comes from the 1920 Czech play R.U.R. by playwright Karel Capek ("robot" means "drudgery" in the Czech language and "labor" in Slovak).

Michio Kaku

#4. Later in high school, I met Hillel Slovak, who was the original guitar player of the Chili Peppers, and we became really close. We had a band, and we didn't like the bass player, so I started playing bass, and I got a bass two weeks later.

Flea

#5. I've lived in Paris. I've lived in the Slovak Republic. I've spent extensive time in England, and I've traveled all over Europe.

Romany Malco

#6. I'm a Slovak. And when I was growing up, I believed that I was Czechoslovakian because of what Russia did. They came in and took two separate countries - Slovakia and the Czech Republic - put them together as one.

Jesse Ventura

#7. My family is Abenaki Indian on my mother's side. My father's side of the family is Slovak, and we also have some English ancestry.

Joseph Bruchac

#8. For me, being Catholic was who I was and who I am, just like I'm Irish and Slovak. It's just so ingrained in us.

Regina Brett

#9. Let's dare to do something so big that if God is not in it, we are doomed to fail.

Edmund Chan

#10. What is important is to have values in life. What's important is how you are, not how you look.

Valeria Mazza

#11. Failure in the management of practical affairs seems to be a qualification for success in the management of public affairs.

Eric Hoffer

#12. Microsoft's new OS, Windows 7, may finally be a worthy successor to XP, eliminating the clutter of Vista and letting users get to what they want to use without the fuss. All this, while remaining compatible with their IT departments' demands for scalability and custom implementations.

Douglas Rushkoff

#13. And then it was like there was a split in the world and George could see out of it, and glimpse the endless machinery that kept the world running. And then, for one moment, he could see even more ...

Robert Jackson Bennett

#14. Why cannot we be delighted with an author, and even feel a predilection for him, without a dislike of others? An admiration of Catullus or Virgil, of Tibullus or Ovid, is never to be heightened by a discharge of bile on Horace.

Walter Savage Landor

#15. Gaming is going into storytelling. It was a new audience.

Kevin Spacey

#16. Betty White is probably a very nice woman.

Elaine Stritch

#17. Flynn is an oncologist now, a man who battles cells that simultaneously multiply and divide.

Dylan Landis

#18. Every role is easy. As an actor it is my job to make my job easy. If I start hyperventilating about my roles, then how will I do it? So, with all my roles, somewhere I feel comfortable about them, and that is why I play them.

Rani Mukerji

#19. If we have strong desire then God miraculously removes obstacles and gives us the power to overcome them.

Radhanath Swami

#20. I wish I was somebody else except me.

Carson McCullers

#21. I learned very early in life that I was always going to need people more than they needed me.

Quentin Crisp

#22. I just feel energized when I am around young, talented people. There is something about these kids that's amazing. I learn as much from them as they do from me.

Sally Struthers