Quotes 61205
I don't know. Men don't listen to what they don't want to hear. I know I didn't, and every man I think is somewhat the same--every man. I must point that out very clearly. Adam has a picture of his life, and he will continue to maintain this picture against every influence until his world comes down. I know that this is true. But i must make it convincing.
- John Steinbeck
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Your increasingly long embraces
Are they saying sorry or please.
I don't know what's happening, help me.
I don't normally beg for assistance.
I rely on my own eyes
to see, but right now
they make no sense to me.
Right now. you make no sense to me. eeee.
- Kings of Convenience
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We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons, we write our new creation, and every night it is blotted out... And of what use is it to say to [our] audience or to critic[s], "Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday."
- Jules Renard
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We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is an old proverb that God wanted to hide wisdom, so that not everyone would indiscriminately find it. Accordingly, God decided to place it in innocent children and fools. It is hard to get wisdom out of an innocent child, and we would never think to get it out of a fool. In both cases, it is fairly safe.
- Robert A Johnson
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There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.
- Jules Renard
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The terror of being mistaken for a queer dominates the straight mind because this terror constitutes the straight mind. It is precisely that culturally produced and reinforced horror of/fascination with abjected homosexuality that produces and maintains 'the straight mind' as such...
- Calvin Thomas
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Your parents death was not your fault. It was your father's. He failed to act.
- Batman Begins
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Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.
- Stanley Kubrick
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We are suggesting that you begin to think of yourself as owning competing and incompatible motives: (1) for genuine pleasure and (2) for the unhappiness (false pleasure) you long ago confused with genuine pleasure. The momentous consequence of this realization is that you must evaluate the quality of your decisions. The fact that a particular choice appeals to you is no guarantee that it will bring you genuine pleasure.
- Martha / William Pieper
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The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.
- Jules Renard
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We have reached a verdict your honor. This man's heart is deficient. He loves, but his love is worth nothing.
- Angels in America
I don't know. Men don't listen to what they don't want to hear. I know I didn't, and every man I think is somewhat the same--every man. I must point that out very clearly. Adam has a picture of his life, and he will continue to maintain this picture against every influence until his world comes down. I know that this is true. But i must make it convincing.
- John Steinbeck
-----------------------------------------------------------
Your increasingly long embraces
Are they saying sorry or please.
I don't know what's happening, help me.
I don't normally beg for assistance.
I rely on my own eyes
to see, but right now
they make no sense to me.
Right now. you make no sense to me. eeee.
- Kings of Convenience
----------------------------------------------------------------------
We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons, we write our new creation, and every night it is blotted out... And of what use is it to say to [our] audience or to critic[s], "Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday."
- Jules Renard
------------------------------------
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
Friedrich Nietzsche
---------------------------------------------------------------
There is an old proverb that God wanted to hide wisdom, so that not everyone would indiscriminately find it. Accordingly, God decided to place it in innocent children and fools. It is hard to get wisdom out of an innocent child, and we would never think to get it out of a fool. In both cases, it is fairly safe.
- Robert A Johnson
----------------------------------------------------
There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.
- Jules Renard
-------------------------------------------------------
The terror of being mistaken for a queer dominates the straight mind because this terror constitutes the straight mind. It is precisely that culturally produced and reinforced horror of/fascination with abjected homosexuality that produces and maintains 'the straight mind' as such...
- Calvin Thomas
-------------------------------------------------------------
Your parents death was not your fault. It was your father's. He failed to act.
- Batman Begins
---------------------------------------------------------
Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.
- Stanley Kubrick
--------------------------------------------------------------------
We are suggesting that you begin to think of yourself as owning competing and incompatible motives: (1) for genuine pleasure and (2) for the unhappiness (false pleasure) you long ago confused with genuine pleasure. The momentous consequence of this realization is that you must evaluate the quality of your decisions. The fact that a particular choice appeals to you is no guarantee that it will bring you genuine pleasure.
- Martha / William Pieper
---------------------------------------------------------
The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.
- Jules Renard
---------------------------------------------------------
We have reached a verdict your honor. This man's heart is deficient. He loves, but his love is worth nothing.
- Angels in America