Ceylan Karahasan Quotes & Sayings

I do not consider myself a literal genius. — Lil' Wayne

One has to choose between engaging in stylistic research or the mere recording of facts. I feel that a filmmaker must go beyond the recording of facts. Moreover, I believe that Africans, in particular, must reinvent cinema. It will be a difficult task because our viewing audience is used to a specific film language, but a choice has to be made: either one is very popular and one talks to people in a simple and plain manner, or else one searches for an African film language that would exclude chattering and focus more on how to make use of visuals and sounds. — Djibril Diop Mambety

Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary master plan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals. — Vaclav Havel

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender. — Abba Eban

Scientific inquiry starts with observation. The more one can see, the more one can investigate. — Martin Chalfie

But there are no real accidents, only decisions that feel like accidents, one after another, that take you down a certain road and take on a momentum that can't be reversed. — Nichole Bernier

I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down. — Stephen King

When you find the way to empower others, you will find that you are a great leader. — Debasish Mridha

Scatter your flowers as you go; you will never go this way again. — Orison Swett Marden