Dmitritch Quotes & Sayings

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For it had become evident to me that I was a great rebel. I fancied that I had suddenly risen above all the errors and stupidities and mistakes of modern society
there are enough of them to rise above, I admit
and that I had taken my place in the ranks of those who held up their heads and squared their shoulders and marched into the future. In the modern world, people are always holding up their heads and marching into the future, although they haven't the slightest idea what they think the "future" is or could possibly mean. The only future we seem to walk into, in actual fact, is full of bigger and more terrible wars, wars well calculated to knock our upraised heads off those squared shoulders. — Thomas Merton

People call Kong "a monster." He's not. There's nothing evil about Kong. He's just another creature who has opened up a little bit of his heart to Ann and it proves to be his undoing. — Peter Jackson

Within a year Ivan Dmitritch was completely forgotten in the town, and his books, heaped up by his landlady in a sledge in the shed, were pulled to pieces by boys. — Anton Chekhov

[ ... ] there come moments when we know we are no more and no less than waves and snowflakes, or than that which surely feels, now and then, from its so wonderfully charming confinement, the pull of longing: the leaf. — Robert Walser

The real purpose of running isn't to win a race, it's to test the limits of the human heart. — Bill Bowerman

Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's poetry in motion, when she turned her tender eyes to me. — Thomas Dolby

I think a first-time director always has to convince a lot of people that they're ready to do it. — Dan Gilroy

Jealousy is the manifestation of insecurity and dissatisfaction with one's calling and self-worth. — T.D. Jakes

I have spoken of Jonah, and of the story of him and the whale. - A fit story for ridicule, if it was written to be believed; or of laughter, if it was intended to try what credulity could swallow; for, if it could swallow Jonah and the whale it could swallow anything. — Thomas Paine

How far is that in regular measurements?" Percy asked. Frank rolled his eyes. "That is a regular measurement in Canada and the rest of the world. Only you Americans - — Rick Riordan

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