Dlouhokr Dl Quotes & Sayings

I like, as a director and a spectator, simple, direct, frank films. Nothing disgusts me more than snobbism, mannerism, technical gratuity ... and, most of all, intellectualism. — John Ford

Christ wasn't only a yogi; he was an activist, carrying his message to those who most needed it. — Jonathan Talat Phillips

The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth. — Anton Chekhov

The primary factor is proportions. — Arne Jacobsen

There she stood, very pale and quiet, with her large grave eyes observing everything, - up to every present circumstance, however small. They could not understand how her heart was aching all the time, with a heavy pressure that no sighs could lift off or relieve, and how constant exertion for her perceptive faculties was the only way to keep herself from crying out with pain. — Elizabeth Gaskell

It's like that, I guess, when the past come to collect what you owe. — Esi Edugyan

Malone: Me father died of starvation in Ireland in the black 47. Maybe you've heard of it.
Violet: The Famine?
Malone: No, the starvation. When a country is full o food, and exporting it, there can be no famine. — George Bernard Shaw

When I was a congressman, I had occasion to talk to this group of students who were taking their seat. There were about 80 of them and I asked them, 'How many of you will be serving in the country once you graduate?' And, out of the 80, there were two that raised their hands. The rest were thinking of leaving. — Benigno Aquino III

Making sure that when my child went to school people were enlightened enough not to torture them, you know? — Jennifer Beals

When you're heartbroken, you're at your most creative - you have to channel all your energies into something else to not think about it. Contentment is a creativity killer, but don't worry - I'm very capable of making myself discontented. — Florence Welch

Good thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking process started, because what you put in always impacts what comes out. — John C. Maxwell