Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes
Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children.
Quotes to Explore
-
We shred every day.
-
The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
-
Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
-
But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
-
I'd like President Bush to get a gun in his hands. I'll go with him. I can't think of anything better than to die in place 's just beginning their lives.
-
I've achieved more than some people do in a lifetime, but it doesn't mean I've done it all.
-
I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.
-
Forty percent of my portfolio is in the U.S. In the rest of the world, most of the places I invest in or invested in are Brazil, Russia, Germany with a little bit of Turkey, China, India, France and Israel sprinkled in there.
-
My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
-
When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.
-
My brother used to say that when you deal with women, it's difficult to remove emotions from an argument. I never really knew what he meant. Then I read an article that said when it comes to emotion and logic, men's and women's brains are different - my brother was right! Women are very mysterious, but that's part of their joy.
-
In the past 10 years, I've looked at life as this Pollock stuff. And now I'm almost in the post Pollock phase.
-
Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.
-
We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
-
As a filmmaker, my approach is to come in not with preconceived notions, but with curiosity, and in that way, whether my subjects are James Carville or Anna Wintour or Dick Cheney, I am always surprised.
-
Being an actor really, really strengthens me as a director. There's just a certain type of understanding that comes from having been there and knowing how much is really being asked of actors that helps me.
-
The great thing about Watergate is, is that the system worked. The American system worked. The press did its job. We did what we were supposed to do.
-
I don't want to see Bowie in a tracksuit. He never let anyone see him that way. The outlet for my work is not just the music and the videos, it's every breathing moment of my life. I'm always saying something about art and music and fame. That's why you don't ever catch me in sweatpants.
-
Start with a shovel, wind up with a spoon
-
Sometimes a person's monstrosity seems superhuman.
-
The general opinion appears to be that it is very funny to make yourself out as fast or as foolish as possible; though even worse than this is the painful orthodoxy of those individuals who claim Shakespeare for their favourite poet, Beethoven for their favourite composer, and Raphael for their favourite painter.
-
You have to retire before you can make the Hall of Fame.
-
The courts don't remove children from their home because the child underperformed at school or required extra long walks or a game of basketball in order to blow off the steam all 5-year-olds have. It's because the parents were unfit, not the kids.
-
Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children.
