Famous Czech and Slovak quotes / Proslule citaty slavnych Cechy a Slovaku

An artist is someone who produces things that people don’t need to have but that he – for some reason – thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

(Andy Warhol)

Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.”

(Vaclav Havel)

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring – it was peace.”

(Milan Kundera)

Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you’re needed by someone.”

(Martina Navratilova)

If you lived, as I did, several years under Nazi totalitarianism, and then 20 years in communist totalitarianism, you would certainly realize how precious freedom is, and how easy it is to lose your freedom.

(Milos Forman)

If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people

(Karel Capek)

Emotions are the fuel to really move you along – that’s the only way you can create music. If you don’t feel any emotions, it’s not going to happen.

(Jan Hammer)

Its easy to have principles when you’re rich. The important thing is to have principles when you’re poor

(Ray Kroc )

Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.

(Ivana Trump) 🙂

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