Quotes by Filmmakers - Page 20

I wish she’d said something different, but patriarchy is as prevalent around the world as racism and xenophobia are. We can’t hide from it, not even here.
Raquel Cepeda
Do not dismiss the words of the old; they possess wisdom, which comes only with age, and often speak of things that the young are too immature to understand.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
Death whispers your name to me.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
When everything seems hopeless, turn your mind toward the three people who mean most to you in this world. Think about what you must mean to them, and from those thoughts of those three people will stem all the hope and meaning you’ll need to fight through.
Shenita Etwaroo
Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping.
Don Roff
I looked down, unable to meet the intensity in Nat’s eyes. Tonight, my crush for Nat had moved beyond a crush. The chemistry between us was undeniable, and the more we clashed, the more we wanted each other." - Summer, Perfect Summer
Kailin Gow
You know what's wrong with scientific power? It's a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are.
Michael Crichton
Look at Jewish history. Unrelieved lamenting would be intolerable. So for every ten Jews beating their breasts God designated one to be crazy and amuse the breast-beaters. By the time I was five I knew I was that one.
Mel Brooks
Everyone was doing that in their own way, rejecting things and moving on. It's just a part of discovering who you are; it's nothing special.
David Byrne
A true artist creates art because they have a passion and desire to do so.
Anne-Rae Vasquez
Names are powerful and are prophecies of the future. The name you are called is a sign of what you are and what you would become.
Jude Idada
If you write a kid's book only for kids, then you have failed.
Don Roff
because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her
Terry Gilliam
If the future truly lies in the dreams of our children, then should those dreams not be filled with light.
Deon Potgieter
He looked along the line of children, exhibits A to C of his existence and heirs to the twisted throne of his corrupt genetics.
David Louden
As Ossie Jones crept out of his body and into the mist, his heart murmured till it was silent.
Biyi Bandele-Thomas
Ruth was a novelist, and novelists, Oliver asserted, should have cats and books.
Ruth Ozeki
The sun might be God. God might not watch us at night.
Darnell Lamont Walker
A joyful rebellion is you living differently not because you're mad at how things are but because you are swelling with joy at the thought of how things could be. When you joyfully rebel against your circumstances, against mediocrity or negativity, you invite others into something really beautiful.
Brad Montague
The center [of the supermarket] is for boxed, frozen, processed, made-to-sit-on-your-shelf-for-months food. You have to ask yourself, "If this food is designed to sit in a box for month and months, what is it doing inside my body?" Nothing good, that´s for sure.
Morgan Spurlock
He sang 'Stairway to Heaven' in four different languages but never knew where that staircase stood.
Sherman Alexie
A deep level of personal engagement is key to good writing and complete immersion by the writer will translate into a richer and more engaging experience for the reader.
Nidhie Sharma
It would be difficult to convince me that leaning has no effect whatsoever on the outcome of my bowling.
Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Who hasn't wanted to die at one time or another?
Ryū Murakami
I will help build your museumWhen you run out of space to hang your workYou can hang your work in mine
Darnell Lamont Walker
Dissimulation, secretiveness, appear a necessity to the melancholic. He has complex, often veiled relations with others. These feelings of superiority, of inadequacy, of baffled feeling, of not being able to get what one wants, or even name it properly (or consistently) to oneself — these can be, it is felt they ought to be, masked by friendliness, or the most scrupulous manipulation.
Susan Sontag
Sometimes it all becomes too much. Your body and mind will just give way. Part of you may want to blissfully fade into nothing, but you never do. After a while all the memories and emotions make you shut down but never fully disappear—it’s safer for you this way, to be excluded. It’s a time to be alone, to heal, and to find yourself. It doesn’t mean you’ve given up or stopped trying; it just means you know what’s best for you.Breathing is medicine. I forgot how to breathe, but I’m learning all over again.
Mandi Lynn
Prayer is meant to happen everywhere. After all, Daniel prayed in the lion’s den. Jonah prayed in a fish’s stomach. Elijah prayed in the desert. And Jesus prayed on the cross.
Jared Brock
If your glass seems half empty, use a smaller glass.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
Don’t worry…three vampire meanies and a horse won’t keep me away from you.” Kalina looked at Jaegar. Jaegar shrugged. “If you don’t get it, it’s before your time.” “And what time is that?” “The Dark Ages…that’s why you’ve never heard of it before. Everything was kept in the dark…
Kailin Gow
We have to care what someone thinks of us. We are incapable of seeing ourselves [sometimes].
Darnell Lamont Walker
Watching across the aisles, the Nevers' faces began to change. One by one, their scowls turned sorrowful, their eyes melted to hurt. Hort, Ravan, Anadil, even Hester...as if they too wished they could have such joy. As if they too wished they could feel as wanted. Gone was their will to fight, lost to broken hearts, and the villains shrank into silence, snakes drained of venom.
Soman Chainani
Zazen is better than a home. Zazen is a home that you can't ever lose.
Ruth Ozeki
That’s what violence was: emotion leaking out from consciousness into the physical world, linking up with the muscles of the arms and shoulders and diaphragm and, inevitably, the face. Stifle emotion during an act of violence and the face becomes a blank, unreadable mask.
Ryū Murakami
Chakravyuh mein ghusne se pehle,Before entering the circle of deceit,kaun tha mein aur kaisa tha,twho I was, and what I was,yeh mujhe yaad hi na rahega.tI would not remember.Chakravyuh mein ghusne ke baad,tAfter entering the circle of deceit,mere aur chakravyuh ke beech,t(there was) between me and the circle,sirf ek jaanleva nikat’ta thi,tonly a deathly intimacyiska mujhe pata hi na chalega.tthat I never realised.
Dilip Chitre
Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.
Susan Sontag
Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.
Michael Crichton
Once upon a time...long ago in a far-off place that everyone knows is not here or now or us.
Richard Flanagan
He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with.
Guy Debord
Crafternoon is about making what you want, how you want it, to the best of your ability. And even if you may not think of yourself as a rock star of creativity, it's there inside you. At Crafternoon, you are a CraftStar.
Maura Madden
You have a responsibility to act for others when you're the only person in a position to do so. It's how you handle it that separates the great from the mediocre.
Wilbert Rideau
Harsh words live in the dungeon of the heart
Norman Mailer
There’s no tragedy you can’t profit from.
Henry Mosquera
Déjà vu is simply remembrance of the future.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
This world needs much more kissing and far less fighting.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
...for Taggart, learning the reality of abortion for the first time was shocking. “Even if it’s done right, it’s barbaric,” he told us. “I’m no holy roller, but if you see the way they actually have to do it, it’s barbaric.” The learning experience was one shared by Wechsler, Pescatore, Wood, and the rest of the team.
Ann McElhinney
They ran to the museums for paintings. I ran to the roof for sunsets
Darnell Lamont Walker
There is simply no issue more important. Conservation is the preservation of human life on earth, and that, above all else, is worth fighting for.
Rob Stewart
Well," she said, "how can I be sure there aren't invisible people in the world? Scientists didn't believe in the mountain gorilla for hundreds of years. And now look. So if scientists can be wrong, then all of us can be wrong. I mean, what if all those invisible people ARE scientists? Think about that one.
Sherman Alexie
I mightn't be a shaman in the indigenous sense, but as a world-bridger between Western culture and the indigenous world, I knew I was playing a shamanistic role. Language was my medicine and with it I would do my best to record my awakening and help heal with my words... The journey isn't over yet.
Rak Razam
If at the end of the day the people of our city escape, it will be good.But if somehow our democracy remains standing - it will be even better.
Boaz Yakin
You learn more about life and people in two hours of war than in four decades of peace. War is dirty, sure, war is senseless, but come on! Civilian life is also senseless, in its sameness and it's reasonableness and because it dulls the instincts. The truth that no one dares speak aloud is that war is a pleasure, The greatest pleasure there is, otherwise it would stop immediately. Once you've tasted it, it's like heroin: you want more. (...) The taste for war, real war, is as natural to man as taste for peace, it's idiotic to want to eliminate it by repeating virtuously that peace is good and war is evil. In fact it's like men and women, yin and yang: you need both.
Emmanuel Carrère
The boy was growing bored and this was a form of growing up.
Miranda July
none of my art is based on how others think i should have done it.
Darnell Lamont Walker
Gently Agatha touched her face in the mirror, glowing from inside. A face no one recognized because it was so happy.There could be no turning back now. The bread crumbs on the dark trail were gone. Instead, she had the truth to guide her. A truth greater than any
Soman Chainani
Otaku (おた) is also a formal way of saying "you". た means "house", and with the honorific お, it literally means "your honorable house", implying that you are less of a person and more of a place, fixed in space and contained under a roof. Makes sense that the stereotype of the modern otaku is a shut-in, an obsessed loner and social isolate who rarely leaves his house.
Ruth Ozeki
I can't remember how to cry.
Sherman Alexie
We need to get to the other side of the lake if you want to help the fairies,” said Mikolay.We could use my crystal ball for transportation,” suggested Julia pulling out a small crystal ball out of her pocket.
Magda M. Olchawska
The dream of all men is to meet little sluts who are innocent but ready for all forms of depravity—which is what, more or less, all teenage girls are.
Michel Houellebecq
Convince people that you need them, and watch what they do.
Wayne Gerard Trotman