488 Area Quotes & Sayings

He assumed a manner that could be called circular irony. Everything he said, he said in quotes, with an artificial, exaggerated emphasis, and with the elocution of someone playing a succession of improvised, ad hoc roles. Therefore, whoever did not know him long and well was confounded, for it seemed impossible ever to tell what the man thought true and what false, and when he was speaking seriously and when he was merely amusing himself with words. — Stanislaw Lem

Anytime you start getting a real tangible relationship with something that's been blown up to a legendary status, you just realize that every part of it is just people getting ahead. — Seth Avett

Films have gotten leaner and leaner, cutting out all variations from the story line. — Neil Jordan

The saviors of the world, society's last hope. — Bertrand Russell

The purely defensive is doomed to defeat. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves. — Patrick Demarchelier