Wim Wenders Quotes

Whoever came up first with that saying a picture is worth a thousand words didn't understand the first thing about either one.

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• It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Experience
  • Remember
  • Nature

• We should not judge Islam by terrorists. All civilizations and cultures produce terrorists. Every time there is a flag-burning, killing, or provocative films, I'm worried, not because something radical will happen, and this time, some people are killed. We're very sorry for that.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Time
  • Judge

• I don't have any style icons, but I get inspiration from my friends. My style motto is that it is better to be overdressed than underdressed.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Friends
  • Style
  • Inspiration

• I don't believe I have slept with an under-age girl. It was only recently that I found out that under-age is 18 in this country, okay, but I don't believe that I slept with anyone under 18 in this country.

  

  Gary Glitter
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Age

• Meditation is a gift confined to unknown philosophers and cows. Others don't begin to think till they begin to talk or write.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Gift
  • Unknown
  • Meditation

• I should be able to look at my accolades and go, "Come on, Paul. That's enough." But there's still this little voice in the back of my brain that goes, "No, no, no. You could do better. This person over here is excelling. Try harder!" It still can be a little bit intimidating.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Trying
  • Brain
  • Enough

• I wouldn't call Adolf Hitler a corporal. Adolf Hitler was looked up to. He was revered almost like a God because he was feared. Adolf Hitler took all of Europe, and my generation had to confront Adolf Hitler.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Up
  • God
  • Europe

• I don't want no drummer. I set the tempo.

  

  Bessie Smith
  • Want
  • Drummer
  • Tempo

• Maybe we just like winners, ... We hope some of that will carry over to the Redskins.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Hope
  • Game
  • Winners

• We owe it to the American people to take our time to be sure the nominee will uphold their most basic and fundamental rights. The public demands this from the process, and deserve no less.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • People
  • Time
  • American

• Nobody is talking about the different - until you raised the issue.

  

  Andrea Mitchell
  • Different
  • Talking
  • Issues

• I know one gay ex-Mormon who is a talented, self-destructive alcoholic. Whenever he is drunk and going on a tear, we are back to the Mormon Church and his being thrown out of the Mormon Church and growing up with this sense of being evil.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Church

• Self efficacious children tend to attribute their successes to ability, but ability attributions affect performance indirectly through perceived self-efficacy.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Children
  • Performance
  • Affect

• Jesus proclaimed the Kingdom of God and what came was the Church.

  

  Alfred Loisy
  • God
  • Church
  • Jesus

• Each one of us continues to carry the heart of each self we've ever been, at every stage along the way, and a chaos of everything good and rotten. And we have to carry this weight all alone, through each day that we live. We try to be as nice as we can to the people we love, but we alone support the weight of ourselves.

  

  Banana Yoshimoto
  • People
  • Good
  • Live

• Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which only fifty years ago one could do without difficulty, cannot get done any more. The richer a society, the more impossible it become to do worthwhile things without immediate payoff.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Time
  • Done
  • Society

• I will never hurt a girl, I respect them too much.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Girl
  • Respect
  • Hurts

• We envy people we love for being always in their own loved company.

  

  Nan Fairbrother
  • People
  • Company
  • Loved

• I had long planned to start a foundation. I wanted to do something with long-range benefit to humanity. Starting a business and making a lot of money doesn't make for a fulfilling life.

  

  Fred Kavli
  • Humanity
  • Foundation
  • Benefit

• Often people ask what I'm photographing, which is a hard question to answer. And the best what I've come up with is I just say: Life today.

  

  William Eggleston
  • People
  • Today
  • Photography

• At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • City
  • Present
  • Thousand

• Whoever came up first with that saying a picture is worth a thousand words didn't understand the first thing about either one.

  

  Wim Wenders
  • Firsts
  • Thousand