Desinteresados Quotes & Sayings

The more talented somebody is, the less they need the props. Meeting a person who wrote a masterpiece on the back of a deli menu would not surprise me. Meeting a person who wrote a masterpiece with a silver Cartier fountain pen on an antique writing table in an airy SoHo loft would seriously surprise me. — Hugh MacLeod

War is young men dying and old men talking — Franklin D. Roosevelt

The earliest books in the New Testament to be written were the Epistles, not the Gospels. It's almost as though Saint Paul and others who wrote the Epistles weren't that interested in whether Jesus was real. — Richard Dawkins

You young people with your twittering and your creating of content. Or what is it - queefing? I don't know what you young people are calling it. — Janeane Garofalo

Consensus isn't just about agreement. It's about changing things around: You get a proposal, you work something out, people foresee problems, you do creative synthesis. At the end of it, you come up with something that everyone thinks is okay. Most people like it, and nobody hates it. — David Graeber

I was given a talent to play cricket. I don't know why I was given it. But I was. I owe it to all those who wish it had been them to give of my best, every day. — Rahul Dravid

The first dolly track was somebody who had the idea to put the camera on a boat on a canal. So the boat would move very slowly but steadily. So they would see all that surrounds you and you'd see the landscape changing slowly. So that was the first time. — Michel Gondry

You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are doing. There are wars and defeats and victories of the human race that are not military and that are not recorded in the annals of history. Remember that while you're trying to decide what to do. — John Edward Williams

Wisdom gives you the ability to chose what is right.
In the darkness of hate and ignorance, it is the light. — Debasish Mridha

The answer is that the question itself is strictly inapposite. — Anonymous

Sometimes a simple question could have a complicated answer. — Lisa Kleypas

Rooting for the Yankees is like owning a yacht. — Jimmy Cannon

It was a great joy for me to develop a strong female character in the spirit of an Icelandic woman. Icelandic women tend to be very strong and very independent, and I think that came in very handy. — Anita Briem