Elisabeth Tova Bailey Quotes

Whereas the future had once beckoned with many intriguing paths, now there was just one impossible route. So it was into the past, with its rich sedimentary layers, that my mind would go instead.

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• If you work in a public space, you have to be aware that no one is buying a ticket.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Work
  • You
  • Space

• Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • May
  • Create
  • Treat

• The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Life
  • Law
  • City

• If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie.

  

  Ice T
  • Movie
  • Go
  • Sell

• I am lucky because I can - and I like to - mix the beautiful Caraceni jackets I inherited from my grandfather with a pair of Tsubi jeans or wear a favorite pin-striped suit from him for more formal occasions. I'm crazy about pinstripes and vintage fifties fabrics.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Crazy
  • Jeans
  • Vintage

• Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • World
  • Canada
  • Walls

• The stream of civilisation flows on like a river: it is rapid in mid- current, slow at the sides, and has its backwaters. At best, civilisation advances by spirals.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Best
  • River
  • Slow

• My father's grandparents came from Norway and settled in the Scandinavian bastion of Minnesota. As a little girl in Tempe, Arizona, I daydreamed about picking cloudberries by a fjord in a fresh Nordic wind.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Father
  • Girl
  • Wind

• I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • People
  • Happy
  • Hope

• The Church had its own law code and its own courts of law which were supreme over the clergy, and had large rights of jurisdiction even over the laity, so that it could develop and give effect to its own ideas of law and right.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Law
  • Church

• Our whole political machinery presupposes a people so fundamentally at one that they can safely afford to bicker.

  

  Arthur Balfour
  • People
  • Political

• The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Art

• Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition.

  

  Eliza Farnham
  • Time
  • Power
  • Soul

• We've had a great change. Dr King saw to that. I was so grateful to see the 'colored only' signs come off the water fountains and bathrooms in the south. But the struggle lives on.

  

  Mavis Staples
  • Great
  • Water
  • Struggle

• I think we shouldn't be shy of thinking that we can interpret text like a movie again, depending on the point of view and what we do with it more than anything else. Of course a lot of remakes of important films, particularly of horror films, they suck.

  

  Luca Guadagnino
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Movie

• My very first role was the character of Barbara Winslow in the movie 'Marmaduke.' Up until that point, I had only done commercials. I had never done a guest star role or a series, and yet they cast me!

  

  Caroline Sunshine
  • Up
  • Done
  • Character

• There's never a dearth of reasons to shoot at the President.

  

  Don DeLillo

• My friends have always called me 'Mr. Thorough,' in that when I get into something, I become obsessed with it.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • Friends

• I think fiction rescues history from its confusions.

  

  Don DeLillo
  • History

• The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.

  

  Barbara Cartland
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• My connection with Brazil is so abstract. My blood and my way of thinking is Brazilian, but that's it. I don't tend to go back to the past, and although I have an apartment there, I rarely visit. When I move, I really move.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Thinking
  • Past
  • Connection

• The greatest gift you can give anyone is to be happy. And we will take that further. The greatest gift you can give to any partner, past, present or future is to be so connected with who you truly are that they are irrelevant to your connection. And when they are irrelevant to your connection, then you are going to have a really good time together.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Together
  • Past
  • Present

• Whereas the future had once beckoned with many intriguing paths, now there was just one impossible route. So it was into the past, with its rich sedimentary layers, that my mind would go instead.

  

  Elisabeth Tova Bailey
  • Past
  • Layers
  • Route