Quotes 361 till 380 of 559.
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Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
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Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.
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Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
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Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.
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Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.
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Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
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Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.
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That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.
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The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.
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The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
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The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.
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The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.
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The child is not to be educated for the present, but for the remote future, and often is opposition to the immediate future.
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The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn't.
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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.
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The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.
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The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.
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