Norman McLaren Quotes
I like black and white films. I don't exactly know why - probably because there is a stylization which is removed from actual life, unlike a color film.
Norman McLaren
Quotes to Explore
No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
Oliver Cromwell
When I first started writing, I used to listen to music all the time because it would make time pass more quickly. And then I started to wonder if the music wasn't affecting my writing in ways that I didn't necessarily intend.
Gabrielle Zevin
People want to imagine I spend every night going to premieres and putting on frocks and getting into limos, and yet I do that maybe twice a year, if that.
Rachel Weisz
Man, it seems to me, is not in history: he is history.
Octavio Paz
Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently.
Harry A. Blackmun
I love music, I make films with music, I eat with music, I sleep with music, I think with music. Music makes me dream; it strengthens my creativity.
Bahman Ghobadi
Do we want an Attorney General who will play politics with the law, play politics with the court and just play politics with international conventions designed to protect our troops? I do not want to play that kind of politics. I am going to vote against Alberto Gonzales.
Barbara Mikulski
AIDS is the biggest challenge, the major disaster facing this country and we would have wished for something more specific and far-reaching.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
You can be on top of everything, and the next minute, you're going to be on the bottom.
Pam Grier
Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.
Salman Rushdie
I don't think anyone who has been to Africa comes away untouched by the place. You see a lot of beauty and optimism, but you also come away with an awareness of the huge gulf between what most of us have and what most of them have to make do with. Then, every now and then, a famine or a war makes everything a hundred times worse.
Gary Frank
What I really like doing is storytelling, finding the body language that is necessary for the story. And when I'm doing it and it's working, I'm thrilled.
Patricia Birch