Filmitalia Quotes & Sayings

The atheist worldview of life is a materialistic culture that frees humanity from superstition. — Howard Thompson

I'm the first one to admit, I'm a pretty unorthodox guitar player. — Lee DeWyze

Endless conflicts. Endless misunderstanding. All life is that. Great and little cannot understand one another. — H.G.Wells

The Hollywood image of the movie business is all about ambition and high achievers like James Cameron. But the British film industry is much more about men who wear cravats and work with model trains and hope another series of 'Thomas the Tank Engine' will be commissioned. — Peter Capaldi

Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life. — Jeanne Moreau

During the 19th century, Iranians lost vast territories in disastrous wars, and corrupt monarchs sold everything of value in the country to foreigners. — Stephen Kinzer

I always give the encore over to chaos, so people can yell out requests and I can hack my way through a song that I don't really know anymore. — Liz Phair

I have implicit faith in Sun Yat-sen, not because I am his blind follower, but because he really arouses the deepest respect in everybody. I do not know of another person in China who has such a broad and international outlook, whose ideas are so constructive, and who has such deep faith and confidence in his own mission. — Chiang Kai-shek

You have to discard your own stereotypes. Remember, there's no such thing as normal. — Amy S. Wilensky

My horses make very silly faces when I'm preparing their meals. — Martin Clunes

My music already has this oldish kind of quality to it, like you don't necessarily know what era it was recorded in, so it all kind of felt surreal and weird. Night after night when I played live, I was really trying to figure it out in real time, and I still don't know what effect I'm going for or what effect I actually achieve. Looking back, I feel like it would be arrogant of me not to appreciate the fact that I've been able to do whatever I want and still have an audience come see me. — Ariel Pink

Muhammad Ali has a lot to answer for. When he lit the flame at the Atlanta Olympics there wasn't a dry eye on the planet. Why were we crying? Because a great sportsman had been reduced to this-a shuffling, mumbling, twitching cripple. A man who once danced like a butterfly now shook like blancmange.
We always remember sportsmen. When the body deserts a scientist like Stephan Hawking we figure that he'll be able to live in his mind, but a crippled athlete is like a bird with a broken wing. When you soar the heights the landing is harder. — Michael Robotham

Every dog has it's day, unless he loses his tail, then he has a weakend. — June Carter Cash

Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you. — Keith Richards

I guess by default we're all the ones shaking our heads at the stupidity of others until we're forced into traumatic experiences ourselves. — J.A. Redmerski