Sergei Eisenstein Quotes

It is art's task to make manifest the contradictions of Being

Sergei Eisenstein

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• One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Ideas
  • Feelings

• I ate a big steak in 1988 and never felt worse. That was it, boom, over. Never again.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Never
  • Felt
  • Worse

• And I am still alive-what though, my damnation is eternal. A man who deliberately mutilates himself is truly damned, is he not? I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • Believe
  • Damnation
  • Mutilates

• No matter what, it is very tricky and difficult just to be a good parent at all. I have a lot of help. And for that I'm very grateful.

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • Difficult
  • Parent
  • No Matter What

• In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Character
  • Long Run
  • Good Action

• The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me.

  

  Scott McCloud
  • Hood
  • Notion
  • Territory

• I don't believe in Elvis I don't believe in Zimmerman I don't believe in Beatles I just believe in me.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Believe
  • Beatles
  • Elvis

• Well Brooke, I've always liked her, and when I was little I used to stay with Diana Ross, me and my brothers stayed with her for years and I never said, but I always had a crush on her.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Brooke
  • Diana Ross

• I was a theater geek, and I was a surly cheerleader, and that's really kind of a contradiction.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Kind
  • Theater
  • Contradiction

• Most People are wretched more by the Fears of what may come, than what they endure at present. ... a manifest Contradiction to good Sense; for who, with the right use of that, wou'd lose the Enjoyment of a present Comfort, to lament a Misfortune only in Supposition; which ten to one never comes to pass.

  

  Eliza Haywood
  • People
  • Good
  • May

• I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • People
  • Work
  • Thinking

• Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie, And young affection gapes to be his heir; That fair for which love groan'd for and would die, With tender Juliet match'd, is now not fair.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Desire
  • Lying
  • Affection

• It is art's task to make manifest the contradictions of Being

  

  Sergei Eisenstein
  • Contradiction
  • Manifest