Brinkmann Hardware Quotes & Sayings

Totalitarian politics - far from being simply antisemitic or racist or imperialist or communist - use and abuse their own ideological and political elements until the basis of factual reality, from which the ideologies originally derived their strength and their propaganda value - the reality of class struggle, for instance, or the interest conflicts between Jews and their neighbors - have all but disappeared. — Hannah Arendt

I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to have experts in those areas giving me the brain space as a writer and director is huge. — Lena Dunham

Abstinence is the surety of temperance. — Plato

Many Americans and Western Europeans proudly trumpet the diversity of cosmopolises like London and New York without realizing that cosmopolitanism does not mean people of different skin colors all sitting around over wine at a bistro table complaining about organized religion. It means people who hold profoundly different, even mutually exclusive, beliefs and cultural norms functioning in a shared space based on toleration of disagreement. — Jonathan A.C. Brown

Not without a wound in the spirit shall I leave this city. — Kahlil Gibran

Teaching Fire a Lesson
Fire is hot. That's what it does. If you get burned by fire, you can be annoyed at yourself, but being angry at fire doesn't do you much good. And trying to teach the fire a lesson so it won't be hot next time is certainly not time well spent.
Our inclination is to give fire a pass, because it's not human. But human beings are similar, in that they're not going to change any time soon either. — Seth Godin

I shall sully the purity of your floor, said he...
— San Juan De La Cruz

I really like to work with theater actors. Theater actors tend to do lots of independent movies, and those are the actors that I like. — Jason Blum

It does not matter who forgives you, if you're the one who can't forget. — Jodi Picoult

Can't sleep unless the TV is on. — Cheyenne Kimball

I love creator-owned comics. Most of my favorite books these days are creator-owned, from stuff DC publishes, like 'Fables,' to books like 'Saga,' 'Fatale,' 'Hellboy,' and 'Courtney Crumrin.' — Kurt Busiek

are meant to shine. Look at small children. They're all so unique before they start trying to be, — Marianne Williamson

This gentleman is cactus," said Doul. — China Mieville