Terrence Malick (Terrence Frederick Malick) Quotes

I prefer working behind the camera.

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• I'm not saying goodbye to life because I'm a misanthropist or disdain this life, but because, for other reasons, it's time to move on.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Life
  • Time
  • Moving

• As an educator myself, I understand the profound effect that good teachers and a quality education have on the lives of our young people.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • People
  • Good
  • Education

• Governments move armies, but only individuals can move hearts.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Hearts
  • Governments
  • Armies

• Environmental justice is the movement to ensure that no community suffers disproportionate environmental burdens or goes without enjoying fair environmental benefits.

  

  Van Jones
  • Community
  • Justice
  • Suffering

• Deep frying a Twinkie makes it healthy, right?

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Healthy
  • Frying

• The angry man wishes the object of his anger to suffer in return; hatred wishes its object not to exist.

  

  Aristotle
  • Wishes
  • Suffer
  • Hatred

• What is bought is cheaper than a gift.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Gift
  • Bought
  • Cheaper

• The tongue of man is a twisty thing, there are plenty of words there of every kind.

  

  Homer
  • Words
  • Tongue
  • Twisty

• Even though Helen Vendler wasn't on the Harvard faculty when I came first in 1979, she was a guardian spirit; Robert Fitzgerald gave me the use of his study in Pusey Library. Monroe and Brenda Engel kept open house, Bob and Jana Kiely made me at home in Adams House. Then, too, in 1979, Frank Bidart, whom Id met in Dublin after the death of Robert Lowell he was over seeing Caroline Blackwood Frank brought me into his circle of friends, including Robert Pinsky and Alan Williamson.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Home
  • House
  • Study

• Not that they were there to have fun—although with Kingsley Martin around, fun was never far from the agenda.

  

  Melissa de la Cruz
  • Fun
  • Agenda

• My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences.

  

  Cassandra Wilson
  • Singing
  • Grandmother
  • Influences

• There's really not much conscious thought involved when I record. I just kind of record what feels good. I'm not trying to make it sound like anything.

  

  Børns
  • Trying
  • Feel
  • Anything

• Everything has already been said, but not yet by everyone.

  

  Karl Valentin
  • Everything
  • Everyone
  • Already

• Where are you going?" I asked, feeling guilty for not being able to hang out with him. "To find a faerie to kill me, of course." He winked at us, then pretended to fall straight through when the faerie door opened. Even Arianna laughed as the door closed behind him.

  

  Kiersten White
  • Guilty
  • Able
  • Doors

• Liberals love to say things like, "We're just asking everyone to pay their fair share." But government is not about asking. It is about telling. The difference is fundamental. It is the difference between making love and being raped, between working for a living and being a slave. The Internal Revenue service is not asking anybody to do anything. It confiscates your assets and puts you behind bars if you don't pay.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Liberty
  • Share
  • Slave

• The more gifted by nature is a man, the more is deplorable the abuse that he does by using them to shameful ends. A swindler (or crook) of higher condition is more blameworthy than a vulgar scoundrel; an intelligent eveil-doer, having benefited from a higher education, represent a more saddening phenomenon ("phénomène", Fr.) than an unfortune illiterate fellow having commited an offence.

  

  African Spir
  • Education
  • Phenomenon
  • Gifted

• I prefer working behind the camera.

  

  Terrence Malick
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