Elmira Quotes & Sayings

Relating a person to the whole world: that is the meaning of cinema. — Andrei Tarkovsky

Isn't that strange? To be able to feel so much tenderness for a person, and I did, and powerful attraction, sometimes, and yet feel no love. It seems cruel, almost monstrous. I mean I can love a bug. I have watched a spider weaving her web in the evening, in the young alder branches along the river, and I have loved her. Truly. Or a small moth trying to beat her way off the water of a dark pool, her soaked wings stuck to the surface as if by glue. And gently slid a leaf beneath her and lifted her to the ground, praying that her wings would dry without damage. I've done that. And yet I could not love my wife. — Peter Heller

I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward. — Seamus Heaney

His subconscious mind knocked loose from its perch and flapping in the hollow corridors of his skull as erratically as a bat — Donna Tartt

She may hide it, but Clinton is a policy nerd. Ask about microfinance, and she'll talk your ear off. Mention early childhood interventions, and she will gush about obscure details of a home visitation experiment in Elmira, N.Y., that dramatically improved child outcomes. — Nicholas Kristof

When I was 9, I went to a birthday party. We were supposed to see a cowboy movie, but the programming got screwed up and we saw 'The Bad Seed' instead. Horrifying. For years I was frightened of girls with pigtails. — Robert Englund

Pride is love for one's deeds or achievements. Vanity is love for one's ... one, I guess. — Corey Taylor

From the standpoint of any sane person, the present problem of capitalist concentration is not only a question of law, but of criminal law, not to mention criminal lunacy. — Gilbert K. Chesterton