Birds Aristophanes Quotes & Sayings

And that was exactly her gamble: that they'd accept her as the person she is now, coming back. She left here as a a naive young woman, and she has come back mature, with a life behind her, a difficult life that she's proud of. She means to do all she can to get them to accept her with her experiences of the past twenty years, with her convictions, her ideas; it'll be double or nothing: either she succeeds in being among them as the person she has become, or else she won't stay. — Milan Kundera

Emotionally involving the audience is easy. Anybody can do it blindfolded: get a little kitten and have some guy wring its neck. — George Lucas

It was only in my forties that I started feeling young. — Henry Miller

Since a good part of my life has been wasted dealing with fools just like them, it's not worry I feel but weariness as I watch the approach of one more episode in the old, tired story of men who try to beat life, the smart ones who think they know it all and die with a look of surprise on their faces: at the final moment they always see the truth - they never really understood anything, never held anything in their hands. An old story, old and boring. — Alvaro Mutis

I may not have been the greatest president, but I've had the most fun eight years. — William J. Clinton

I will not hesitate to cast upon you the shadow thrown by the darkness of human life. But do not be afraid. Gaze steadfastly into this darkness, and find there the things that will be of use to you. — Soseki Natsume

I'm not supposed to miss you, I'm not supposed to care — Deborah Cox

I love history. I love art. I like to mix it all together, but in the end it somehow has to all make sense. — Anna Sui

There is nothing a good long walk can't help work out. — Mark Ruffalo

Miles couldn't help admiring women for their ability to dismiss the evidence of their senses. If that's what explained it. If it wasn't simply that from time to time they were unaccountably drawn to the grotesque. — Richard Russo

I was horrified by modern 12-tone music. I said to myself, 'Maybe I can find something different ... maybe salvation, liberation, is possible. — Pierre Schaeffer

Be careful of words, / ... they can be both daisies and bruises. — Anne Sexton

All these kids in Hollywood, the people born and raised out here, their parents are all in show business, and that's why I think we're good. That's why we're on top of the game now because we were born in it. — Pauly Shore

I don't want to see a movie twice. I don't want to do anything twice. — Elaine Stritch

Nobody can make you happy but yourself. Things occupy us, people occupy us, but they don't make us happy. If we are honest, what makes us happy is to experience spirit. — Frederick Lenz