Aperto Quotes & Sayings

Hush, little students, we'll say the word,
Mama's gonna buy you a mockingbird.
And if that mockingbird won't sing,
Mama's gonna write down everything.
And so that book won't look the same,
Mama's gonna add a brand-new name. — Daisy Whitney

Only you can find yourself by losing yourself again and again in the deep darkness of your driving desires. — Debasish Mridha

I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself. When Anne Sexton admonished me, "We are all writing God's poem," I took it to mean there should be no competition between writers because we are all involved in a common project, a common prayer. But to Gore's and Norman's generation, particularly those male writers who served in the second world war, the prizefighter paradigm remains. — Erica Jong

Theological discourse can be, in and of itself, a form of identity and solidarity. — Namsoon Kang

Insight, vision, moments of revelation. During those rare moments something overtakes the man and he becomes the tool of a greater Force; the servant of, willing or unwilling depending on his degree of awakeness. The photograph, then, is a message more than a mirror, and the mans a messenger who happens to be a photographer. — Minor White

The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase His favourite phantom; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come, And make their bed with thee. — William C. Bryant

A lot of people are very political when they are young, and then they outgrow it. — Andrew Solomon

Whether you do a play in front of 100 people or a movie that one billion people see, you're still affecting people. — Luke Ford

The IPCC 'policy summaries,' written by a small group of their political operatives, frequently contradict the work of the scientists that prepare the scientific assessments. Even worse, some of the wording in the science portions has been changed by policy makers after the scientists have approved the conclusions. — Peter Friedman

I kind of feel like every time I do a film, it is me and an entire male ensemble cast. — Margot Robbie

I never desired to go into war zones. I never had any thought about it. It sort of just happened as part of the job. — Kate Adie

Someone came too sooner. — Eugene Ormandy

The only answer that I give to you
is doing it," he said. "A just request
is to be met in silence, by the act. — Dante Alighieri