Top 79 Tibor Quotes
#1. Mr. Charismo? Surely not Tibor Charismo, the most famous man in all of England.
Eoin Colfer
#2. Some people ... cling to the idea that the photograph is an inherently real or honest image and as such is always on a different plane from an obviously subjective form of visual communication such as painting.
Tibor Kalman
#3. Perspective is a moment in time that cannot be fully appreciated until that moment has passed.
Tibor Kalman
#4. Even those with unspendable fortunes only have one mind, one mouth, two ears, two eyes and one pleasure station. There's only so much fun you can take.
Tibor Fischer
#5. I'm always trying to turn things upside down and see if they look any better.
Tibor Kalman
#7. The impossible lives next door to the possible; people ring its door bell by accident all the time.
Tibor Fischer
#8. I use contrary-ism in every part of my life.
Tibor Kalman
#9. Many of us, I suppose, see our existences not as lives, but as life-holders, zarfs, waiting for the job, the person, the event to fill it.
Tibor Fischer
#10. Few pleasures are greater than knowing you can close your door, ignore the world and create your own.
Tibor Fischer
#11. You can't really win as a Booker judge. If you choose the obvious names, the unit-shifters, you're accused of being timid and unimaginative; if you choose the unfamous, you're labelled willful and perverse.
Tibor Fischer
#12. When I think of Hungarian films, I think of despair and bleakness, and what's more, despair and bleakness of indefensible duration.
Tibor Fischer
#13. Most Hungarians know what it was to live in a dictatorship; some are old enough to have known both fascism and communism. No one wants to go back to that.
Tibor Fischer
#14. I like being a 10-year-old kid who's in charge.
Tibor Kalman
#15. I believe that this whole question of some photography being true and some untrue is a non-question. Photography is not objective; it never was objective.
Tibor Kalman
#16. Edits are very important to me - they're the way in which I work on everything.
Tibor Kalman
#17. Travelling is difficult, and writers tend to want to stay at home and do their work.
Tibor Fischer
#18. When I was 20, journalists would ask me what I would do when I retire from waterpolo. For me this is not just a five- or ten-year-period in my life. This is life itself.
Tibor Benedek
#19. Usually, when you make a decision in life, unless you have access to parallel universes, you can't truly judge how right that decision was.
Tibor Fischer
#21. Your children will smash your understanding, knowledge and reality. You will be better off. Then they will leave. You'll miss them forever.
Tibor Kalman
#22. No amount of intelligence can save you from stupidity.
Tibor Fischer
#23. Fascism is [ ... ] arbitrary rule by a charismatic head of state.
Tibor R. Machan
#24. Some years ago, I fired my agent, Andrew Wylie, alias The Jackal. I want to stress this wasn't an amicable parting of the ways or a hankering on my part for fresh representation. I fired him because his agency wasn't doing enough for me.
Tibor Fischer
#25. To me, nothing is more vibrant than having the power to do something but not having the experience of knowing what's right and what's wrong.
Tibor Kalman
#26. No one wants a masterpiece knocking around when your own book is looking for attention.
Tibor Fischer
#28. Like most men, I'm a life support system for a phallus.
Tibor Fischer
#29. I went to a British Council event a while back and there were lots of German professors of literature. About half of them were convinced I had a German sense of humour and the other half were sure it was British. They are probably still arguing about it now.
Tibor Fischer
#31. The greatest danger of being gifted, is that you may never learn how to make an effort.
Tibor Fischer
#32. As an author, I realise, you're on your own. You have to do everything you can to help The Book. If I make sure people know it's out there, they can make up their own minds whether they want to read it.
Tibor Fischer
#33. I don't take much notice of reviews now - obviously you'd like to have straight worship but you're never going to get that.
Tibor Fischer
#34. No matter what your cultural sophistication or what language you speak, everyone can understand images.
Tibor Kalman
#35. Pictures are so good at giving people information that they're not looking for.
Tibor Kalman
#36. Outside their country, Hungarian directors have had, from the critics at least, a friendly reception.
Tibor Fischer
#37. Criticism is part of being in the marketplace. If you can't take a bit of criticism, you shouldn't bother publishing a book.
Tibor Fischer
#38. Book-writing is always much easier in other people's lives.
Tibor Fischer
#39. You've got to try everything once, except those things you don't like, or that involve a lot of effort and getting up early.
Tibor Fischer
#40. Design is just language and the real issue is what you use that language to do.
Tibor Kalman
#41. I'm not as good a writer as I'd like to be; therefore, I like to use images to tell stories.
Tibor Kalman
#43. One of the reasons why I don't write the same kind of book again and again is that I get bored very easily, so I like to make things interesting for myself.
Tibor Fischer
#44. I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability.
Tibor Kalman
#45. Opening the fridge door, I found a rat eating the cheese. My dealings with rodents, particularly those tagged verminous, have been few, but generally the pattern has been one of man, the boss, the caretaker of creation, the namer, appearing and the lower orders hitting the road.
Tibor Fischer
#46. I always consider every place worth exploring once- just in case there's a thirty foot flaming sign divulging the secret of life, that no one has told me about.
Tibor Fischer
#47. If someone is going to permit me to make a publication that is politically and culturally progressive and not tell me to put their favorite movie stars on the cover, if I get to do what I want in an honest way - as I did in the beginning at 'Colors' - then I'm going to do it.
Tibor Kalman
#48. I'm not against beauty, it just sounds boring to me.
Tibor Kalman
#49. Why is erasing desire seen as so important? If the subjugation of the self is the point of the self what's the point in having a self? It's like someone handing you a leaflet which says throw this leaflet away.
Tibor Fischer
#51. It's true, some senior Hungarian writers are not known for their laughter. There is a strong Germanic influence - an attitude that if it's enjoyable it can't possibly be literature.
Tibor Fischer
#52. There's prejudice and poverty in Hungary as there is in every country.
Tibor Fischer
#53. I'm not the most prolific writer in the world, and, sadly, writing a novel involves a lot of effort.
Tibor Fischer
#55. Think like an artist. Dress like an insurance salesman.
Tibor Kalman
#56. Let's face it: we live at a time when government is less and less powerful, less and less effective, and the agent of social change, at least for the immediate future, is the corporation.
Tibor Kalman
#57. A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues.
Tibor Fischer
#58. Why endure verticality when you can be horizontal?
Tibor Fischer
#59. You don't really have to go anywhere in particular in New York City to have a good time. In every part of town, there's always something going on. It helps to know people there, too, because everything changes so fast, and they will be able to point out what's hot this month.
Tibor Fischer
#60. Most books reviews aren't very well-written. They tend to be more about the reviewer than the book.
Tibor Fischer
#61. The perfect state of creative bliss is having power (you are 50) and knowing nothing (you are 9). This assures an interesting and successful outcome.
Tibor Kalman
#62. The difference between good design and great design is INTELLIGENCE
Tibor Kalman
#63. Gyuri had dropped church much in the same way he had stopped believing in Santa Claus; there came a point where it was impossible to take it seriously.
Tibor Fischer
#64. Consumer culture is contradiction in terms
Tibor Kalman
#65. I don't know why they call it life, it's just a moment with memories.
Tibor Fischer
#66. Waterpolo is my life. Our relationship is that of predetermination I'll never be better at anything than waterpolo and that is why it is my duty to pursue this sport as long as I can, and to the best of my abilities.
Tibor Benedek
#67. It is only within a free society that the crucial moral features of human life can be protected and preserved
Tibor R. Machan
#68. The way British publishing works is that you go from not being published no matter how good you are, to being published no matter how bad you are.
Tibor Fischer
#69. If you don't have an idea, all you have is style.
Tibor Kalman
#70. Ultimately, it's about the quality of the writing whatever style you are writing.
Tibor Fischer
#71. You'll never go wrong when you work with someone smarter than you.
Tibor Kalman
#72. Miami, in many ways, is a quintessentially American city. The juxtaposition of showy wealth with dire pennilessness, the tussle of glitz and decay doesn't come any more marked than here.
Tibor Fischer
#73. Almost all of us have the hankering to be famous, to be important, to be admired, to stand out, but the assumption is you have to be different or better to get that. No. The best thing is to be famous, to be cuddled by the public, but to be like everyone else.
Tibor Fischer
#74. New York City has fantastic restaurants and, unlike London, a lot of the best restaurants are relatively cheap.
Tibor Fischer
#75. Because my name is Hungarian, everyone assumed I knew about Hungary. I didn't. They also assumed that if you knew about Hungary, you also knew about the rest of Eastern Europe.
Tibor Fischer
#76. Good designers are no longer satisfied in taking the manuscript from someone and making it look nice. One of the things that I've tried to do is move from being a designer to a content provider.
Tibor Kalman
#77. As suburbs go, Bromley's not bad. But as David Bowie and Hanif Kureishi have observed, you do want to get out of there quickly.
Tibor Fischer
#78. The institution of taxation is not a civilized but a barbaric method to fund anything ... it amounts to ... a gross violation of human liberty.
Tibor R. Machan
#79. When you make something no one hates, no one loves it.
Tibor Kalman
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