Bill Viola Quotes

I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.

Bill Viola

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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.

Saffron Aldridge
- Life
- Mother
- Morning
Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.

Ban Ki-moon
- Power
- Plants
- Be Prepared
I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view.

Harold Ramis
- World
- Great
- Different
I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.

Barbra Streisand
- Myself
- Doing
- Mystery
Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.

Nancy Pelosi
- House
- Me
- Kind
I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often.

Farley Mowat
- People
- Feel
- Better