Backfire Movie Quotes & Sayings

In honoring the Wright Brothers, it is customary and proper to recognize their contribution to scientific progress. But I believe it is equally important to emphasize the qualities in their pioneering life and the character in man that such a life produced. The Wright Brothers balanced success with modesty, science with simplicity. At Kitty Hawk their intellects and senses worked in mutual support. They represented man in balance, and from that balance came wings to lift a world. — Charles A. Lindbergh

Under examination by the camera, a human body becomes for its inhabitant a field of betrayal more than a ground of communication, and the camera's further power is manifested as it documents the individual's self-conscious efforts to control the body each time it is conscious of the camera's attention to it. — Stanley Cavell

Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. — George Macaulay Trevelyan

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe anything simply because it is spoken of and rumored by many. Do not believe anything simply because it is written in your religious books. Do not believe anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions simply because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the benefit of one and all, then accept it and live by it. - Buddha, founder of Buddhism — Habib Sadeghi

When training young horses "There are many types of bits for many different disciplines, but the severity of ALL bits lies in the hands holding them." — Monty Roberts

The philosopher Isaiah Berlin sagely pointed out, liberty for wolves means death to lambs.124 — Naomi Oreskes

You're so freaking hot, Michaels. As much as I love watching you suck my thumb, I have bigger plans for you. I wanna show you how good this can be. I need to be buried balls deep inside you, and I will be, but I want you good and relaxed before we start. — Kindle Alexander

Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic. — Annie Dillard

My public image is absolutely not a fair reflection of who I am. — Mario Balotelli

I do not take myself seriously simply because no one else does either. — Gregory E. Lang

Magic fucking phone. — Rainbow Rowell