Jean Renoir Quotes

A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not know he had inside him.

Jean Renoir

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• Suffering turns men towards their creator.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Men
  • Suffering
  • Creator

• I really did love hockey. It was one of my favorite things to do.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Things
  • Really
  • Favorite

• Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Born
  • Glory
  • Creator

• We have no reason to suppose that we are the Creator's last word.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Reason
  • Word
  • Creator

• Let the clean air blow the cobwebs from your body. Air is medicine.

  

  Lillian Russell
  • Air
  • Body
  • Blow

• When the creator of the show is gone, the actors end up being the people who have been there the longest.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • People
  • Up
  • Actors

• The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator. Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.

  

  Alan Paton
  • Men
  • Destroy
  • Creator

• As all our wickedness consists in turning away from our Creator, so all our goodness consists in uniting ourselves with Him.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Creator
  • Consist

• And divine grace is the inestimable treasure through which vile creatures and servants like ourselves become dear friends of our Creator.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Friends
  • Divine
  • Creator

• Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • High
  • Words
  • Teaching

• When we love, we see the infinite in the finite. We find the Creator in the creation.

  

  Eliphas Levi
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Creation

• The Creator gave us the complete, unchallengable right of prerogative over the one thing, and only thing we own, our mind.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Mind
  • Thing
  • Creator

• I’m willing to meet my creator and answer every shot that I took.

  

  Chris Kyle
  • Answers
  • Creator
  • Willing

• I wish I would have kept the big picture in my mind at all times - what it most important? That my kids seek to please God and learn about their Creator.

  

  Mary Elizabeth Lease
  • God
  • Important
  • Mind

• Any work of art ... is great when it makes you feel that its creator has dipped into your very heart for his sensation.

  

  Fannie Hurst
  • Work
  • Great
  • Heart

• It is evidently known, beyond contradiction, that New Orleans is the cradle of Jazz and I, myself, happened to be the creator in the year 1902.

  

  Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe
  • Jazz
  • Creator
  • Known

• [God] is the kind Creator who brought forth nature out of nothing.

  

  Johannes Kepler
  • God
  • Kind
  • Creator

• I believe the geometric proportion served the creator as an idea when He introduced the continuous generation of similar objects from similar objects.

  

  Johannes Kepler
  • Creator
  • Proportion
  • Served

• Ecclesiastes names thee Almighty, the Maccabees name thee Creator, the Epistle to the Ephesians names thee Liberty, Baruch names thee Immensity, the Psalms name thee Wisdom and Truth, John names thee Light, the Book of Kings names thee Lord, Exodus names thee Providence, Leviticus Sanctity, Esdras Justice, creation names thee God, man names thee Father; but Solomon names thee Compassion, which is the most beautiful of all thy names.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Truth
  • Wisdom
  • Creator

• I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split. You realise they love each other, but they're not in love with each other. And I think as a child it's much better for your parents to split than for them to stay and have dysfunction within the family.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Time
  • Family
  • Love

• I think - particularly in terms of the destiny of Africans in North America - our destiny has also been shaped indelibly by global alliances.

  

  Gerald Horne
  • Destiny
  • Africa
  • Alliances

• A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not know he had inside him.

  

  Jean Renoir
  • Creator
  • Midwife
  • Film director