„But the heaviest things, I think, are the secrets. They can drown you if you let them.“
— Ally Carter, kniha Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover
Zdroj: Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover
„Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but that's not the same thing.“
Zdroj: The Secret Sharer and other stories
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polský autor 1857 - 1924Podobné citáty
„I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.“
— Frida Kahlo Mexican painter 1907 - 1954
Quote in a letter to Ella Wolfe, "Wednesday 13," 1938, as cited in Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera (1983) ISBN 0-06-091127-1 , p. 197. In a footnote (p.467), Herrera writes that Kahlo had heard this joke from her friend, the poet José Frías.
1925 - 1945
Varianta: I tried to drown my sorrows but the bastards learned how to swim.
— F. W. de Klerk South African politician 1936
As quoted in "South Africa's de Klerk: Israel not an apartheid state" http://www.timesofisrael.com/south-africas-de-klerk-israel-not-an-apartheid-state/#ixzz3GrpjBXBe (27 May 2014), The Times of Israel
2010s, 2014
— Nastassja Kinski German actress 1961
On Roman Polanski, as quoted in Nastassja Kinski: June 2004 Interview with Tony Bray http://www.nastassja-kinski.jp/article/tvnow_jun04/index.html
„The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.“
— Joseph Campbell American mythologist, writer and lecturer 1904 - 1987
Zdroj: Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research
„I liked things better when I didn't understand them.“
— Bill Watterson American comic artist 1958
„In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows
But my sorrows they learned to swim“
— Bono Irish rock musician, singer of U2 1960
— John Lennon English singer and songwriter 1940 - 1980
Pop Chronicles: Show 27 - The British Are Coming! The British Are Coming!: The U.S.A. is invaded by a wave of long-haired English rockers. Part 1 https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19782/m1/#track/4, 24 August 1964 http://www.jpgr.co.uk/pro202.html.
— Czeslaw Milosz Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator 1911 - 2004
"They Will Place There Telescreens" (1964), trans. Czesŀaw Miŀosz
Bobo's Metamorphosis (1965)
— Rita Dominic Nigerian actress 1975
Zdroj: https://www.correctng.com/i-have-children-rita-dominic-opens-up-in-new-interview-video/Speaking in an interview with media personality, Chude.
— Jon Stewart American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian 1962
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Responding to King's suggestion that as a political comedian Stewart would "want things to be bad" because that would provide him with the most fodder for jokes
— Salman Rushdie British Indian novelist and essayist 1947
Address at Columbia University (1991)
Kontext: I determined to make my peace with Islam, even at the cost of my pride. Those who were surprised and displeased by what I did perhaps failed to see that … I wanted to make peace between the warring halves of the world, which were also the warring halves of my soul….
The really important conversations I had in this period were with myself.
I said: Salman, you must send a message loud enough to … make ordinary Muslims see that you aren't their enemy, and you must make the West understand a little more of the complexity of Muslim culture …, and start thinking a little less stereotypically…. And I said to myself: Admit it, Salman, the Story of Islam has a deeper meaning for you than any of the other grand narratives. Of course you're no mystic, mister…. No supernaturalism, no literalist orthodoxies … for you. But Islam doesn't have to mean blind faith. It can mean what it always meant in your family, a culture, a civilization, as open-minded as your grandfather was, as delightedly disputatious as your father was. … Don't let the zealots make Muslim a terrifying word, I urged myself; remember when it meant family. …
I reminded myself that I had always argued that it was necessary to develop the nascent concept of the "secular Muslim," who, like the secular Jew, affirmed his membership of the culture while being separate from the theology…. But, Salman, I told myself, you can't argue from outside the debating chamber. You've got to cross the threshold, go inside the room, and then fight for your humanized, historicized, secularized way of being a Muslim.
— Frida Kahlo Mexican painter 1907 - 1954
Varianta: I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows. But now the damned things have learned to swim, and now decency and good behavior weary me.