Philip Pullman Quotes
If a nation allows its literary culture to die, it's a sign that it doesn't fundamentally care.Philip Pullman
Quotes to Explore
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Most actors can't make any kind of living.
Viggo Mortensen -
Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
R. Kelly -
Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
Igor Stravinsky -
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
Saint Augustine -
The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!
Tahar Rahim
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The overreach of the judiciary can be attributed to, one, the inability of the executive to deliver; and two, the tendency to issue judicial pronouncements for national good. The second element is dangerous because that's the function of the government.
Kapil Sibal -
Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.
Yoko Ono -
I think Hollywood wants to be safe. The things you do first become your calling card, and I think people just sort of go, 'Well, we know he can do that.' They kind of put you in that hole.
Falk Hentschel -
I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'
Gayle Forman -
Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.
Yakov Smirnoff -
I think what we've been able to do with 'Longmire' is balance this procedural with a bit of a soap opera, and it's a character study of this character, Walt Longmire, and the people around him.
Katee Sackhoff
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Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
Orson Welles -
When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taught not to stand out from the rest of the team. It's different now.
Yao Ming -
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
Oscar Wilde -
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
Octavio Paz -
Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.
Nancy Pearcey -
The United States' administrations... must recognize that Iran is a big power. Having said that, we consider ourselves to be a human force and a cultural power and hence a friend of other nations. We have never sought to dominate others or to violate the rights of any other country.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Their things works of Die Brücke-artists must be exhibited. But I think it is incorrect to immortalize them in the document Almanac of our modern art (and, this is what our book ought to be) or as a more or less decisive, leading factor. At any rate I am against large reproductions of Die Brücke paintings in The Blaue Reiter Almanac.
Wassily Kandinsky -
One musn't overrate the culture of what used to be called 'top people' before the wars. They had charming manners, but they were as ignorant as swans.
Kenneth Clark -
Die Leugner des Zufalls. - 'Kein Sieger glaubt an den Zufall.'
Friedrich Nietzsche -
The value of land must, in the future, be assessed on its yield of potable water. Those property-owners with a constant source of pure water already have an economically-valuable "product" from their land, and need look no further for a source of income.
Bill Mollison -
People who say that music is dead or hip-hop is dead are refusing to evolve.
Erykah Badu -
If a nation allows its literary culture to die, it's a sign that it doesn't fundamentally care.
Philip Pullman