Chadwyck Forest Quotes & Sayings

Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm. — Wendell Phillips

The function of the flashback is Freudian ... You have to let them wander like the imagination or like a dream. — Sergio Leone

Give Call a grievance, however silly, and he would save it like money. — Larry McMurtry

Moths and other nocturnal insects navigate by the moon and stars. Those heavenly bodies are useful for them to find their way, even though they never get far from the surface of the earth. But lightbulbs and candles send them astray; they fly into the heat or the flame and die. For these creatures, to arrive is a calamity. When activists mistake heaven for some goal at which they must arrive, rather than an idea to navigate Earth by, they burn themselves out, or they set up a totalitarian utopia in which others are burned in the flames. Don't mistake a lightbulb for the moon, and don't believe that the moon is useless unless we land on it. After all those millennia of poetry about the moon, nothing was more prosaic than the guys in space suits stomping around on the moon with their flags and golf clubs thirty-something years ago. The moon is profound except when we land on it. Paradise — Rebecca Solnit

Dreaming is good, but actions are better. Actions are what transform dreams into reality. — Debasish Mridha