Famous Elsa Schiaparelli Quotes & Sayings

You don't do background music the way a lot of more conventional films do. The music is often kind of a character in your films to the extent that sometimes you stop and watch someone perform a song. — Wes Anderson

Firequencher raised his hand. I've been staying out of family conversations. Do I get credit for that? — Orson Scott Card

If Islam is to be reconciled with modernity, these voices must be encouraged until they swell into a roar. Many of them speak of another Islam, their personal, private faith. The restoration of religion to the sphere of the personal, its depoliticization, is the nettle that all Muslim societies must grasp in order to become modern. — Salman Rushdie

Education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education. — Blaise Pascal

The ghosts of Manhattan are not the spirits of the propertied classes; these are entombed in their names, their works, their constructions. New York's ghosts are the unresting souls of the poor, the marginal, the dispossessed, the depraved, the defective, the recalcitrant. They are the guardian spirits of the urban wilderness in which they lived and died. Unrecognized by the history that is common knowledge, they push invisibly behind it to erect their memorials in the collective unconscious. — Luc Sante

Stories teach us empathy, and limiting the expression of humanity in our heroes entirely based on sex or gender does us all a disservice. It placess restrictions on what we consider human, which dehumanizes the people we see who do not express traits that fit our narow definition of what's acceptable. — Kameron Hurley

As for the expected boon to the Mexican economy, we have seen none of these gains, and instead we have seen NAFTA's detrimental impact on the Mexican workers. — Stephen F. Lynch

Everyone in Russia must awaken the citizen within himself. — Vladimir Sorokin

I didn't want to get that ring around my lips from practicing the trumpet, because I thought the girls wouldn't like me. So I never practiced. — Wynton Marsalis

You don't meet a lot of people that you really like. I don't anyway. — Nick Cave

The most I've smoked in a day was over an ounce, in Germany. — Method Man

A corrupt society is terrible for humanity and great for business. — Farhan Akhtar