Bruce Dawe Famous Quotes & Sayings

I used to believe authenticity could be achieved solely by describing, in our own words, one's own fragment of experience. This was of course predicated on the complete intellectual and aesthetic independence of the "I". One eventually realizes such intellectual isolationism promotes style, ego, awards. But not change. — Miguel Syjuco

David Bowie's my favorite musician. I love him above all, but I'm really into rap a lot right now. — Ethan Suplee

I am against great themes and great subjects ... You can't film an idea. The camera is an instrument for recording physical impact. — Jean Renoir

Letters ... People do not write the truth; they write the things that, they believe, you would like to read. — Henning Mankell

I will continue to work for the advancement of freedoms in Egypt and the Arab world until I drop dead ... Education itself - which can and should play an important role in the apprenticeship of tolerance and respect for other people - sometimes encourages identitarian closure, or even extremist behaviour ... It is therefore vital to ensure that education does not encourage rejection of other people or identitarian closure, but that on the contrary it encourages knowledge and respect for other cultures, other religions and other ways of being and living. — Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Be silent, but let your silence become the loudest message of love and compassion. — Debasish Mridha

Well, first you have to be very, very funny. I have realized that it is essential for a boy to be funny. Otherwise, what is the point in a boy? — Jaclyn Moriarty

It is just that there be law, but law is not justice — Jacques Derrida

So, you take no prisoners, huh?'
Flynn leaned in close. Her pulse clicked up a gear at the deliberate invasion of her personal space. 'No, sweetie. We take prisoners, of the short, female variety. We just don't fight fair when we catch 'em. — Fiona Archer

Chaos will come and I will be its master. — Leigh Bardugo

Nothing is a certainty — Jessica Shirvington