Eisteddfod Quotes & Sayings

I discovered the fun of genre is ... you get to explore your fears, and you get to use the metaphor of the genre - whether it's a giant monster or a ... 12-year-old vampire. Whatever it is, you can sink something underneath the surface and make a personal film under the guise of great fun romp. — Matt Reeves

The body is not interested in anything you are interested in. And that is the battle that is going on all the time. — U.G. Krishnamurti

What would you do?
Would you jump? Would you feel pity for yourself? Would you think about your family and your childhood and your dreams and all you're leaving behind? Would it hurt? Would it feel like dying? Would you cry, as I did? — Tim O'Brien

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without. — Martin Luther

I don't attend an actual school but I'm still following through with high school. I do work with a tutor for about six hours a day. It's hard core but definitely worth it, and it's my main focus now - finishing up high school before I release my new album and apply to college. — Jojo

When you're an actor, you just hope you get a job to go to. — Kate Fleetwood

That the earth in its course stood still; that a she-ass spoke; that a storm was quieted by a word, we do not believe, and we shall never again believe. — Adolf Von Harnack

You're allowed to die at night and be born again with sunrise. Each day is an opportunity to transform. Don't waste this. Protect your right to change, grow, and beam as a star unabashedly should. — Erica Alex

My parents aren't artists or anything, but growing up in Wales, especially in a Welsh language school and community, they have this thing called the Eisteddfod where people compete in singing and acting and dancing and oratory all sorts of things. From a very young age, it's been a part of my upbringing. — Iwan Rheon

I stood there and stared, into the sky and at the city around me. I stood, hands at my side, and I saw what had happened to me and who I was and the way things would always be for me. Truth. There was no more wishing, or wondering. I knew who I was, and what I would always do. I believed it, as my teeth touched and my eyes were overrun. — Markus Zusak

Education is identical with helping the child realize his potentialities. The opposite of education is manipulation, which is based on the absence of faith in the growth of potentialities and the connection that a child will be right only if the adults put into him what is desirable and suppress what seems to be undesirable. — Erich Fromm

It is morally, politically and socially wrong for business as business or labor as labor to participate directly in politics. — George W. Romney

When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him - like a drop of water from a lotus leaf. — Gautama Buddha

Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy. — Nicholas Stern