Mark Strand Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II.
-
A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
-
'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.
-
Starting that union was something I believed in very strongly.
-
Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone.
-
Movies, obviously, are a little more lucrative. The initial paycheck is better.
-
If I played tennis, I had to be in a dance class. I always had multiple activities, so I never had to count on any one of them to feel successful.
-
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
-
I was a late bloomer. I was 38 when my first book was out and 43 when my first crime novel was out. I had a story that could only be told as a crime story. I think the genre is good; it deals with the fundamental questions of life and death. The problem is there are too many bad crime stories.
-
If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.
-
You give the money where you want it.
-
I grew up studying music. I went to conservatory.
-
Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.
-
O meu passado é tudo quanto não consegui ser.
-
Are you the strongest of all men, so strong that you can be merciful to me, a weak woman? Here is the undoing of your strength: I am not a weak woman. I am not a little queen. And your mercy will be your undoing.
-
What is now common to all men is a mere abstract universal, an H.C.F. Highest Common Factor, and Man's conquest of himself means simply the rule of the Conditioners over the conditioned human material, the world of post-humanity which, some knowingly and some unknowingly, nearly all men in all nations are at present labouring to produce.
-
I cannot say where you are. Unreachableby prayer, even if poems are prayers. Unseeablein the air, even if souls are stars.
-
I am making superhuman efforts to educate this people. When they have learnt to obey, they will believe what I tell them.
-
It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.
-
The worst men often give the best advice.
-
You need a balance in life between dealing with whats going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over.
-
The Marvel world is a pure joy to be a part of.
-
It's very hard to write humor.
