Aboient Quotes & Sayings

Thus she is almost always a failure as a lawyer, for the law requires only an armament of hollow phrases and stereotyped formulae, and a mental habit which puts these phantasms above sense, truth and justice; and she is almost always a failure in business, for business, in the main, is so foul a compound of trivialities and rogueries that her sense of intellectual integrity revolts against it. — H.L. Mencken

More often than not in poetry I find difficulty to be gratuitous and show-offy and camouflaging, experimental to a kind of insane degree - a difficulty which really ignores the possibility of having a sensible reader. — Billy Collins

To begin a reform, go not into the places of the great and rich; go rather to those whose cups of happiness are empty
to the poor and humble. — Lew Wallace

Cameras are like dogs, but dumb, and toward quarry, even more faithful. They point, they render, and defy the photographer who hopes. — Tod Papageorge

I don't think I could be happy as an actor if there was a tyrant on the set. — David Warner

My responsibility is to make a film and find my dramatic language; I don't have any political or social responsibility. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening — Zhuangzi

Scientific thought and the miraculous unconscious are two waves in the same ocean. — Alejandro Jodorowsky