. . . we took the 10 machines we agreed were the most beguiling, and we put them on permanent exhibit in the foyer of this library underneath a sign whose words can surely be applied to this whole ruined planet nowadays: THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE
To drown a river beneath its own impounded water, by damming, is to kill what it was and to settle for something else. When the damming happens without good reason. . . then it's a tragedy of diminishment for the whole planet, a loss of one more wild thing, leaving Earth just a little flatter and tamer and simpler and uglier than before.
All I want to do is hit someone in the mouth. It's a whole lot easier than working for a living. Don't make anything noble out of what I do
We receive and we lose, and we must try to achieve gratitude; and with that gratitude to embrace with whole hearts whatever of life that remains after the losses.
I'm always writing, but directing takes priority over everything, unless the acting is a job that lifts that whole brand. If I get a part in a big film with a big director and I was going to direct one of my one films, I would take the former job because that job will only help anything that I then intend to do. I think in the long run, directing is the thing that will outlive everything else. Maybe that and writing.
The killers have built the society. The whole Indonesia is their platform. They run the country. They run the country.
Canada, the drinking age is 18, that's unnecessary. Nobody wants to get loaded around people who have hope and their whole lives still ahead of them.
People ask me, "Are you right wing or are you left wing?" and I always say, "I'm for the whole bird. " A one-winged bird didn't ever get off the ground.
A lot of people would have loved me to keep singing. . . You come to a point where you have sung, more or less. . . your whole repertoire and you want to get down to the job of living.
Don't put the whole of your identity into the smallness of a situation.
Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his wife for the sake of a youthful mistress; he loved; was not loved; and his life ended in disaster. This is the whole of the story and we might have left it at that had there not been profit and pleasure in the telling; and although there is plenty of space on a gravestone to contain, bound in moss, the abridged version of a man's life, detail is always welcome.
In the case of a film like The Exorcist or To Live and Die in L. A. , I saw the whole movie in my head before I went to shoot it. I never did storyboards, or anything like that. I had the film in my head.
You've got to admit you're broken before you can be made whole.
I'm up here in this womb, I'm looking all around. We'll, I'm looking out my belly button window and I see a whole lot of frowns.
A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.
I played professional level sports. When you're playing for money, it's a whole other level.
I think the whole concept of monotheism is a gift from the gods.
Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.
Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.
