Bahman Kiarostami Quotes & Sayings

You don't think about it that often, but you don't realize how many of your friends have come and gone. It makes you feel very fortunate. — Trevor McNevan

In loving thou dost well, in passion not,
Wherein true love consists not: Love refines
The thoughts, and heart enlarges; hath his seat
In reason, and is judicious — John Milton

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. — Edgar Allan Poe

frittering our money away on extravagant trips — St. John Greene

The tougher the problem, the sweeter the victory — Sunday Adelaja

I really wanted to be a musician, but it turned out I had no sense of time. — Tom Perrotta

Sometimes I like her calm, unwild,
gentle as a sleeping child,
and wonder as she lies, a fur ring,
curled upon my lap, unstirring
is it me or Tibbles purring? — Ian Serraillier

I asked myself childish questions and proceeded to answer them. — Albert Einstein

I hoped to burn out, through Hella, my image of Giovanni and the reality of his touch - I hoped to drive out fire with fire. — James Baldwin

How can anyone expect to be understood unless he presents his thoughts with complete honesty? This situation is unfair because it asks too much of the world. In effect, we say, ' I don't dare show you what I am because I don't trust you for a minute but please love me anyway because I so need you to. And, of course, if you don't love me anyway, you're a dirty dog, just as I suspected, so I was right in the first place.' Yet, every time God's children have thrown away fear in pursuit of honesty-trying to communicate themselves, understood or not, miracles have happened. — Duke Ellington

I think there are things that aren't represented in movies that are a big part of everyone's life. We romanticize everything about people in movies. One of the things I don't like in movies is that people feel alone with their bodily functions in the real world, as if people in the movies don't do these things. — Charlie Kaufman

I was definitely nervous turning up on my first day to shoot with Woody Allen. — Ashley Madekwe