Quotes by czechoslovakian authors

When I was 4 my mother got divorced and we were very close to each other. I always wanted to be with her. She took me everywhere. When she went for dinner with friends or when they had meetings at the tennis club, I was always there. Martina Hingis

The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish. Milan Kundera

Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray. Milan Kundera

News Smoking Listening Cigarette Broadcast Crushing Like Ashtray Butt

There are no small parts. Only small actors. Milan Kundera

Only Small Parts Actor

The best actors do not let the wheels show. Milan Kundera

Best Wheels Show Actor

I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be. Milan Kundera

Myself Better Think Better Actor Allowed Am Than Much Actor

People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still. Milan Kundera

Music People Deaf Because Still Louder Going Played

Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries. Milan Kundera

Consider Critic Discoverer Discoveries Us Therefore Let Us

A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea. Milan Kundera

Master Tool Approximate Exactly Prevails Only Idea Knows How Still Hammer Handled May While Worker Meant Meant To Be User

Broch is an inspiration to us, not only because of what he accomplished, but also because of all that he aimed at and could not attain. Milan Kundera

Only Inspiration Could Attain He Also Because Accomplished Us

Every change of scene requires new expositions, descriptions, explanations. Milan Kundera

Change Every Scene New Explanations Requires Descriptions

I remember that the day I finished 'The Angels,' part three of 'The Book of Laughter and Forgetting', I was terribly proud of myself. I was sure that I had discovered the key to a new way of putting together a narrative. Milan Kundera

Memories are doing funny things to us. Milos Forman

Funny Memories Funny Things Doing Us Things

Individuals fighting or rebelling against the status quo, the establishment, is good for drama. Milos Forman

Good Fighting Drama Status Status Quo Individuals Establishment Quo Against Rebelling

And everything is controlled and everybody is a member of some committee, because then their watchdogs placed in the committees can control everything, what this person says or how this person think(s), you know. Milos Forman

You Control Everybody Everything Says Member Some Know Because How Person Committee Controlled Committees Placed Then

When you make a film, you realize that the audience will be powerless to stop it or flip back to refresh their memories or skip the boring parts. They are at the mercy of your storytelling. Milos Forman

You Memories Will Mercy Back Boring Powerless Make Parts Audience Refresh Stop Storytelling Realize Your Skip Flip Film

And also they were absolutely brilliant in one way, you know: they knew how effective is not to punish somebody who is guilty; what Communist Party members could afford to do was mind-boggling: they could do practically anything they wanted - steal, you know, lie, whatever. Milos Forman

You Lie Brilliant Somebody Party Whatever Mind-Boggling Way Punish Guilty Members One-Way Steal Could Absolutely Knew Know Also Practically How Were Effective Afford Wanted Anything Communist Communist Party Who