Aleksandr Sokurov Quotes & Sayings

Don't allow distance to truly separate you. Make your love last beyond the distance. — Nisla Love

Style is something that's extremely important, but it must grow naturally out of who and what you are and what the material calls for. It cannot be superimposed. — William Friedkin

So says the most ancient book of the Earth; thus it is written on its leaves of marble, lime, sand, slate, and clay: ... that our Earth has fashioned itself, from its chaos of substances and powers, through the animating warmth of the creative spirit, to a peculiar and original whole, by a series of preparatory revolutions, till at last the crown of its creation, the exquisite and tender creature man, was enabled to appear. — Johann Gottfried Herder

Learning is something students do, NOT something done to students. — Alfie Kohn

One variety of the balance-of-payments theory attempts to distinguish between the importation of necessaries and the importation of articles that can be dispensed with. Necessaries, it is said, have to be bought whatever their price is, simply because they cannot be done without. Consequently there must be a continual depreciation in the currency of a country that is obliged to import necessaries from abroad and itself is able to export only relatively dispensable articles. To argue thus is to forget that the greater or less necessity or dispensability of individual goods is fully expressed in the intensity and extent of the demand for them in themarket,and thus in the amount of money which is paid for them. However strong the desire of the Austrians for foreign bread, meat, coal, or sugar, may be, they can only get these things if they are able to pay for them. — Ludwig Von Mises

I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college. — Hubert H. Humphrey

I often hear them accuse Israel of Judaizing Jerusalem. That's like accusing America of Americanizing Washington, or the British of Anglicizing London. You know why we're called 'Jews'? Because we come from Judea. — Benjamin Netanyahu

Clay, if anyone followed anyone, it was me tagging along after you. I didn't dare order you around."

"Load of shit," he muttered, but she thought she heard a softening in his tone. "You fucking made me attend tea parties."

She remembered his threat before the first one: "Tell anyone and I'll eat you and use your bones as toothpicks."

~ Talin and Clay dialogue — Nalini Singh

A dog could see your heart in your eyes, Budress told him, and dogs were drawn to our hearts. — Robert Crais

Everything Man sees he takes for a toy.
Thus is he always, forever a boy. — Jessie Burton

My life has been regulated by insomnia," Bourgeois told an interviewer in 1993. — Mason Currey

The Longer You Love, The Longer You Live, The Stronger You Feel, The More You Can Give. — Peter Frampton

Wicked men have done dirty things to u but never ever think that u are dirty! — Gladys Lawson

For a breathtaking moment;
I spoke the language of the fleeing leaves
When the sky is shrouded in darkness
Of incoming Ravens in black plumage. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Human nature is always interesting ... And it's curious to see how certain types always tend to act in exactly the same way. - Miss Marple, The Herb of Death, Pg. 167 — Agatha Christie