Cinefile Quotes & Sayings

So I told myself I would give it up, even prayed at night for it to be taken away, not knowing that 'it' was love. — Paul Monette

Being a mom has been my most important job to date, and I take my job very seriously, and I have a lot of fun doing it. — Jessica Capshaw

The Arctic and the Antarctic are melting quickly. We may have waited too long to get started. But this is a day for optimism because the battle is fully joined, and the idea that big oil is unbeatable is no longer true. — Bill McKibben

a good vocabulary helps the reader understand the context of the message. — Jonathan Wallace

Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution. — Garrett Hardin

His laugh is made of porch swings and lemonade. — Augusten Burroughs

You can't talk about truth unless you talk about yourself. — Cornel West

I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it. — J. C. Chandor

In their zeal for particular kinds of decisions to be made, those with the vision of the anointed seldom consider the nature of the: process: by which decisions are made. Often what they propose amounts to third-party decision making by people who pay no cost for being wrong-surely one of the least promising ways of reaching decisions satisfactory to those who must live with the consequences. — Thomas Sowell

Make the verses flow together. If a following verse has nothing to do with the previous, you may lose our listener/reader. You want a smooth flow to hear or read, and it's easier to memorize. — Margaret Atwood

Do you know what my daughter's nurse told her today? "In a girl's voice lies temptation - a known fact. Eloquence in a woman means promiscuity. Promiscuity of the mind leads to promiscuity of the body." She doesn't believe it yet, but she will. She'll grow up just like her mother. Marry, raise children and honor her family. Spend her youth in needlepoint and rue the day she was born a girl. And when she dies, she'll wonder why she obeyed all the rules of God and Country for no biblical hell could ever be worse than a state of perpetual inconsequence. — Margaret F. Rosenthal

By the mid-sixties, the United States had poured more than half a million troops into South Vietnam. — Nguyen Cao Ky

But please allow me to introduce myself. I'm Logan Mitchell, and this is Tate Morrison, and he is my partner. — Ella Frank

In truth, it matters less what we do in practice than how we do it and why we do it. The same posture, the same sequence, the same meditation with a different intention takes on an entirely new meaning and will have entirely different outcomes. — Donna Farhi