Krzysztof Kieślowski quote: "I sensed a mutual indifference behind polite smiles and had the overwhelming impression that, more and more frequently, I was watching people who didn't really know why they were living."

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES

I'm more attracted to the bad guys. Why? Because in real life, I don't know any good guys. I...
VINCENT CASSEL

People basically and particularly [physically fit young males] are highly likely to become infected ...
GREG POLAND

i didnt understand why my past realationship were so bad now i know so when we meet we had something...
WOW

But I knew one more thing. That people who denied who they were or where they had been were in the g...
JANET FITCH

... I felt that I was not penetrating to the full depth of my impression, that something more lay be...
MARCEL PROUST

I had read once that dumb people didn't know they were dumb. They thought they were just as smart as...
DINAH KATT

I think I grew up with a profound sense of watching people who were good people, who were smart peop...
ELIZABETH WARREN

The timing of this is a surprise more than the fact that the change occurred. I sensed that somethin...
LEE HUENECKE

The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite t...
SAMUEL L. JACKSON

I don't understand a thing about this world: about people, and why they do the things they do. The m...
CRAIG SILVEY

We had really good possession at midfield, but we could not get that penetrating pass to get behind ...
SAMIR HAJ

There was a problem and that was that. Why didnt make a fiddlers fuck.
HUBERT SELBY JR.

I was getting good position, crashing the boards offensively and defensively. I sensed they were a l...
ZACH FREEMAN

I sensed there was a lack of confidence, they were tense,
JACQUES SANTINI

I don't think, generally speaking, people become writers because they were the really good, real...
STEVEN MOFFAT

Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there -- I always suspected ...
ANDY WARHOL

Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected t...
ANDY WARHOL

When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and a...
JACK REYNOR

I really comprehend the fact that some of what I have to say sounds a little weird. But the more and...
STEPHEN BALDWIN

I just sensed more of a Yankees atmosphere tonight. They pretty much get that where ever they go.
BARRY ZITO

This is a little surprising, because I know that some of the integration work had already taken plac...
ROBERT MARTIN

Most people (who) came in had situations that were lingering a little bit too long. They really shou...
CHARLES ROSSOTTI

And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is t...
MIRIAM MAKEBA

To this day, I really don't know why they took those pills. I suppose it was meant to give you a lit...
ARCHIE GEMMILL

My ego every day is more and more polite. I tame it.
ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY

Watching Jaws just scared the living daylights out of me when I was young. I know a lot of people my...
ASHLEY SCOTT

As it began to balloon before our eyes, and more and more and more and more people and money were in...
ANI DIFRANCO

That, I think, is when things really took off, ... More and more people were buying the passes.
IRWIN SHAW

I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short ...
BAHMAN GHOBADI

You never know really what anyone thinks about you - that's why all my closest friends are ones ...
DOMINIC COOPER

I gave myself a chance to win the tournament. I came from behind and I had a really good run on Frid...
LORENA OCHOA

People in south Manchester overwhelming want to be able to recycle more than they currently can - es...
LUCY POWELL

Some people are just more spiritual than others and I really had a strong ambition to know God,
JOHN GRAY

I was impressed with the kids and the bus driver. They stayed calm and were more concerned with why ...
DAN BURNS

I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I

left behind a country that was more dynamic, more competitive, more tolerant, less deferential, less...
DAVID FRUM

A lot of the stories I was brought up on had to do with extreme actions - leaving everything behind,...
JOAN DIDION

To be totally honest? I don't know if I'll keep doing more impressions. People told me I had...
BILL HADER

When I read about how 200 people died on a polar expedition, I wonder why they didn't get to kno...
TIM CAHILL

Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was al...
KATE GREENAWAY

Growing up, I slowly had this process of realizing that all the things around me that people had tol...
AARON SWARTZ

With more and more stress from work, at times I really do hope to have someone I can lean upon.
SONG HYE-KYO

I had assumed that all Tibetan lamas were just like the Dalai Lama, teaching that they were nonviole...
ERIK CURREN

I Believe that the people who died are living more than we do.
HAIFA SANAD

Before I went through that situation, and during the time I was in there, I know there were people w...
GLORIA TREVI

I've walked away from more climbs than I can count, just because I sensed that things were not q...
ALEX HONNOLD

The level of assistance was amazing. People really got involved. We recognized more than 50 voluntee...
BOB JOHNSON

A lot of people come to me and they say, 'I want to live a more eco-friendly existence, but I just d...
DANNY SEO

I think it turned the whole sport around. It got everybody's attention. People who were watching TV ...
CALE YARBOROUGH

Everywhere I go, I am The Doctor, and everyone smiles at me - they are pleased to see Doctor Who, wh...
PETER CAPALDI

It looked like an X-Wing [from 'Star Wars'] and it came in just one color, which was 'metal' colored...
GERARD WAY

The reaction was good until I wanted to make it a career. And they said, 'Well, maybe you shouldn't ...
DAVID COPPERFIELD

I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possib...
NADINE LABAKI

Eventually, the more I listened and became obsessed with singers, I feel like the more I realized th...
CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT

Ping-Pong had six people watching it; soccer had a lot more. So the decision was easy.
JULI VEEE

In essence, the Thai people are not materialistic at all. They're not in the least driven by the...
JOHN BURDETT

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH

I'm really visually stimulated more than anything. I don't really listen to music. I'm m...
SIA

Once the others were below, Hazel and Leo faced each other awkwardly. They were alone except for Coa...
RICK RIORDAN

The images I had were of people being driven mad by living in the city. Images of parents who were s...
BRET EASTON ELLIS

I love stories about two people who are doing illegal things, who we really enjoy watching despite t...
FAMKE JANSSEN

They were very private. They gave us the impression that she was improving. I had no idea it was the...
EVELYN LOWERY

I love the fact that we, as black people, carry our faith with us. We share it and embrace it and lo...
BORIS KODJOE

Not many people know, but my joints are extremely hypermobile, and that's why I'm more prone...
SANIA MIRZA

The people that really were important, that mattered, had a great foundation. I had no training. I h...
TAB HUNTER

I think that the more people understand what's at stake, the more they understand that I'm behind th...
ALAN SANDALS

The people that were watching us for 10 years telling us why it wouldn't work and they wouldn't i...
GEOFF SMITH

The true knowing, living Christian complains more frequently and more bitterly of the wants and woes...
RICHARD BAXTER

There is nothing that I so greatly admire as purposefulness. I have an enormous respect for people w...
LOUISE DICKINSON RICH

It was always so hot, and everyone was so polite, and everything was all surface but underneath it w...
JAMES MCBRIDE

If more people were using the buses, then less people should be on the road. And I think more and mo...
LINDA CARTER

I think it turned the whole sport around. It got everybody's attention. People who were watching...
CALE YARBOROUGH

I felt that a lot of Viking culture had been caricatured and misconstrued. After all, they were far ...
MICHAEL HIRST

When I walked up on stage at the Emmys, and when people stood up, it was a really sort of emotional,...
STERLING K. BROWN

My impression is that we're gaining share, ... More and more people are using Oracle.
LARRY ELLISON

I was under the impression that I was helping people buy a home who couldn't otherwise afford one.
MARK WALLACE

I know some people don't like it, but the fact is we get more gaming-oriented in the country every y...
DAVE COKIN

I was very specific as to what the special would be because I had just directed Jon and Dennis, ... ...
JEFF GARLIN

I was very specific as to what the special would be because I had just directed Jon and Dennis. The ...
JEFF GARLIN

I didn't know who she was, but I knew she was hungry, so I started handing out $100 bills and ca...
JOE JAMAIL

I really, really love new work, and that's why, you know, I produced a concert series supporting...
JOSH YOUNG

I had a dream that Mark Wahlberg and his wife were our neighbors and we had dance parties in our liv...
CRYSTAL WOODS

Laughter is more than just a pleasurable activity...When people laugh together, they tend to talk an...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen. If only they wou...
ROALD DAHL

There are people on all sides of me that I know and trust. I know they're watching out for my kids a...
LESLIE WHITE

I was so sad from losing two of my dogs and my mother. I had this vision of all these animals sittin...
LINDA BLAIR

Yes, women are stronger than us. They face more directly the problems that confront them, and for th...
PEDRO ALMODOVAR

I was in Nepal and I had watched Oprah Winfrey's show. I had no idea, as a kid in Nepal, who she...
PRABAL GURUNG

Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there – I always suspected...
ANDY WARHOL

I've really sensed that people have an affection for me.
DAVID CASSIDY

We were all really relieved about it. I had a feeling it was going to pass because there's been a lo...
ROBYN STAUDENMAIER

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for ones own safety i...
JOSEPH HELLER

The people who were marching at Peggy O'Hara's funeral gave the impression they were associa...
MARTIN MCGUINNESS

People never seemed to notice that, by saving time, they were losing something else. No one cared to...
MICHAEL ENDE

We had overflow all the way up here. Our hotels were more full and our traffic was heavier. It wasn'...
SANDY EMILE

I had been living more in cities, and I wanted to live in a more country atmosphere,
JUANITA WOLFF

We were speaking with people who said it was cracking and leaking, and they were afraid it could fai...
IDA CHONG

I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making.
KATE WINSLET

I'm Fascinated by women who aren't making a great impression on people. I think there's probably som...
CALISTA FLOCKHART

I sensed a mutual indifference behind polite smiles and had the overwhelming impression that, more and more frequently, I was watching people who didn't really know why they were living.

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I sensed a mutual indifference behind polite smiles and had the overwhelming impression that, more and more frequently, I was watching people who didn't really know why they were living.

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