Entdeckung Duden Quotes & Sayings

Well, if you're talking about the current climate, there's a lack of content in American film because I think people are deeply confused about their emotions, and they don't regret certain aspects of their own foreign policy. — Neil Jordan

Why? How had this otherwise sensible woman who had only met Beamabeth as a screaming purple blob fallen under her spell? Or had Beamabeth slipped immaculate into the world, petal-cheeked and smiling amidst gleaming golden curls? — Frances Hardinge

Somewhere along the dust-chocked Guatemalan road between ... and ... was where I confirmed that I preferred traveling around the slow, bone-rattling way: by bus,with ordinary people. The bus we were riding in had been repainted in bright reds. The inside was colorful too: the seats had springs popping out of the upholstery, and the floor was caked with dirt and garbage. Chickens, some tied in bunches and others wandering loose, squawked noisily. Bouncing along a road to a place I had never been, and would never go back to, suddenly felt exciting, liberating even — Chesa Boudin

It's tough to play the right chord on the instrument when there's someone out there who wants to kill you. — Darrell Hammond

There's no real rules about what you do [while directing]; it's just you just use your instincts as to the pacing of a film and what is repetitive and what is the minimum amount you can get away with to tell the story, that scene didn't make it in. — Peter Jackson

The abstract artist has given material existence to many unseen worlds and tempi. — Mark Rothko

People regularly misinterpret what I say, the question is whether that's something I ought to worry about or not! — Jeff Garcia

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. — Voltaire

Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment. — Jean De La Bruyere

Colonization of the world, more often than not by robbery and warfare, spread Christianity into the Americas and other corners of the earth, just as Islam was spread throughout Asia and Africa. lt is not a coincidence that the two most widespread religions in the world today are the most warlike and intolerant religions in history. Before the rise of Christianity, religious tolerance, including a large degree of religious freedom, was not only custom but in many ways law under the Roman and Persian empires. They conquered for greed and power, rarely for any declared religious reasons, and actually sought to integrate foreign religions into their civilization, rather than seeking to destroy them. People were generally not killed because they practiced a different religion. Indeed, the Christians were persecuted for denying that the popular gods existed - not for following a different religion. In other words, Christians were persecuted for being intolerant. — Richard Carrier

It is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community. It is a call for black people to define their own goals, to lead their own organizations. — Stokely Carmichael

Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession. — Mark Twain

All one has to do to gather a large crowd in New York is to stand on the curb a few minutes and gaze intently at the sky. — George Jean Nathan

Spirituality will take you like love; it seduces you from contemplation to completeness. — Bryant McGill

Love, till dawn sunder night from day with fire Dividing my delight and my desire ... — Algernon Charles Swinburne