Dadaists And The Surrealists Quotes & Sayings

Nothing worthwhile was without risk. You had to decide whether your feelings were strong enough to make it a risk worth taking. — Mhairi McFarlane

Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths. — Rumi

I wanted this club for you," Kingsley confessed. "The truth is, I was building it for you. I wanted you to have somewhere safe you could go and be you. Because I love you, — Tiffany Reisz

We are bored in the city, there is no longer any Temple of the Sun. Between the legs of the women walking by, the dadaists imagined a monkey wrench and the surrealists a crystal cup. That's lost. We know how to read every promise in faces-the latest stage of morphology. The poetry of the billboards lasted twenty years. We are bored in the city, we really have to strain to still discover mysteries on the sidewalk billboards, the latest state of humor and poetry. — Ivan Chtcheglov

I was a young boy when I met the Surrealists and the Dadaists. I admired them, and that is what they taught me: to admire. Admiration is very important. People who are unable to admire others lose an important part of their soul. My soul developed from a very early age through encounters with admired people. — Stephane Hessel

A film takes a lot of time, and yet not enough to share with the people you're making the movie with, I think. — Claire Denis

The last hundred years have been retinal; even the cubists were. The surrealists tried to free themselves, and earlier so had the dadaists, but unfortunately, these latter were nihilists and didn't produce enough to prove their point, which, by the way, they didn't have to prove - according to their theory. — Marcel Duchamp

I just grew the hair on my back. Facial hair just wasn't appealing to me. I liked it on my back, though. — Bob Uecker

Children need people in order to become human ... It is primarily through observing, playing, and working with others older and younger than himself that a child discovers both what he can do and who he can become
that he develops both his ability and his identity ... Hence to relegate children to a world of their own is to deprive them of their humanity, and ourselves as well. — Urie Bronfenbrenner

Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure. — Seneca The Younger

This morning there s first a predictable story about Darfur; an expert on African affairs notes that seven thousand African Union troops patrolling a region the size of France have been ineffectual in preventing continued janjaweed terror. Funding for the troops is about to run out, and it seems that no one, including the United States, is ready to put forth more money or come up with new ideas to stop the killing and displacement. This is not surprising to those of us who lived through twenty years of oppression by the hands of Khartoum and its militias. — Dave Eggers

Who do you suppose invented computers? Speaking in terms relevant to you, in terms of earth history, let alone other worldly history, the computer, of course, came from Atlantis. — Frederick Lenz

I always had a pretty good knack for raising hell. — Brandon Lee

They aren't actually lost. It's more like when you misplace something in the house. Sooner or later you find it, because it was never really missing. You just didn't remember where you had left it. — Tammy Doherty

I learned how to deal with people with elegance from Patrick Swayze. — Travis Fimmel