Apichatpong Weerasethakul Quotes

It's like we are underground, in a cemetery....the sky is the earth... We are hibernating, sleeping all the time and we don't know it. We are dreaming that there is plenty of oxygen.

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

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• I hate it when guys wear really tight t-shirts. It's just so horrible, especially when you can see their bellies.

  

  Sam Smith
  • You
  • Hate
  • See

• Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Men
  • Always
  • Altruism

• I could scrape water off horses all day long. That would never get boring.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Long
  • Day
  • Water

• The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show, because usually when the computer breaks down once, that is the end of it for a long, long time. They do not have the money or incentive to get the computer repaired.

  

  Major Owens
  • Time
  • Long
  • Money

• There are moments to indulge and enjoy, but I always know when it's time to go home and wash my knickers.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Time
  • Home
  • Moments

• Valuation is what people are willing to pay.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • People
  • Pay
  • Willing

• 'The Chicken Soup for the Soul' books are the result of over 20 years of teaching seminars and giving speeches. The first book contains all of the stories that I used in my seminars to illustrate the points that I wanted to make.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Book
  • Soul
  • Giving

• Do a good job. You don't have to worry about the money; it will take care of itself. Just do your best work - then try to trump it.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Good
  • Work
  • Money

• God, beam me up!

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Up
  • God

• To avoid large and unsustainable budget deficits, the nation will ultimately have to choose among higher taxes, modifications to entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, less spending on everything else from education to defense, or some combination of the above.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Education

• I'm strictly for Adlai Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you man, he knows the most.

  

  Elvis Presley

• Love, Fear, and Esteem, - Write these on three stones.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Fear

• We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.

  

  Audre Lorde
  • Women
  • Black
  • Study

• p. 96

  

  Louis Althusser

• In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them? Surely we should treat them with the same consideration and kindness as we show to other humans; and as we recognize human rights, so too should we recognize the rights of the great apes? Yes.

  

  Jane Goodall
  • Great
  • Kindness

• If we care about family stability, if we care about community stability, then we need fewer evictions.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Family
  • Community

• Couples in their 30s are having trouble having kids. And you just kind of extrapolate that and say, 'What if it happened to everybody? What kind of society would it be like if all of a sudden we knew that this was the end of the line - we couldn't have kids?'

  

  David Alpay
  • Kids
  • Society

• It's a lot of pressure. Some of the cast wants a StairMaster on the set so you can work out like crazy before your naked scene.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • Work
  • Crazy

• Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.

  

  Charlotte Bunch
  • Culture
  • Violence

• She wouldn't shake my hand! I said 'C'mon, be a gentleman'.

  

  Kathy Griffin
  • She
  • Hand
  • Gentleman

• A dense film of a conventional surfactant is quite impermeable. On the other hand, a dense film of Janus grains always has some interstices between the grains, and allows for chemical exchange between the two sides; 'the skin can breathe'. This may possibly be of some practical interest.

  

  Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
  • May
  • Hand
  • Breathe

• There is mystery here, but a soft, sure mystery that is understood and only remains a mystery because I want it so. The mystery of the nighthawk against a darkening sky, the puzzle of the firefly along the lilac hedge.

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • Sky

• There's this inherent screenplay structure that everyone seems to be stuck on, this three-act thing. It doesn't really interest me. To me, it's kind of like saying, 'Well, when you do a painting, you always need to have sky here, the person here and the ground here.' Well, you don't.

  

  Charlie Kaufman
  • Painting
  • Sky

• It's like we are underground, in a cemetery....the sky is the earth... We are hibernating, sleeping all the time and we don't know it. We are dreaming that there is plenty of oxygen.

  

  Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  • Sky
  • Dreaming
  • Underground