Flannelly Media Quotes & Sayings

Oh what lies there are in kisses! And their guile so well prepared! Sweet the snaring is; but this is Sweeter still, to be ensnared. — Heinrich Heine

The great movie can be as free of being a record of the progress of the protagonist as is a dream. — David Mamet

I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing. — Yann Tiersen

A good exercise for identifying intervals is to sing them. Sing one note, any note, and then try to sing, let's say, a perfect fourth above it. — Skip Morris

One of the advantages of having to live with JUnit for 8 years is now we can look back and see which decisions we made worked nicely and which we would have done differently. — Kent Beck

Over a half-century has passed since the hell of the Holocaust, but its spectre still hangs over the world and doesn't allow us to forget. — Irena Sendler

I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft in this that I cannot seea chicken's neck wrung without distress, and cannot bear to hear the squealing of a hare between the teeth of my hounds. — Michel De Montaigne

I'm a master of speaking silently - all my life I've spoken silently and I've lived through entire tragedies in silence. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Sometimes we don't find the thing that will make us happy because we can't give up the thing that was supposed to. — Robert Breault

Herein is a capital truth. It is not the natural capacity, the congenital gift, nor is it the effort, the will, the work, which in the intelligence as sway over the energy capable of making it fully efficacious. It is uniquely the desire, that is, the desire for beauty. This desire, given a certain degree of intensity and purity, is the same thing as genius. At all levels it is the same thing as attention. If this were understood, the whole conception of teaching would be quite other than it is. First, one would realize that the intelligence functions only in joy. Intelligence is perhaps even the only one of our faculties to which joy is indispensible. The absence of joy asphyxiates it. — Simone Weil

If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that. — Yann Martel

I'll eat a nugget of my own poop for 20 bucks. I'll pay you 20 bucks and I'll eat it. — Tom DeLonge

All true teachings expand awareness, not limit it. — Shepherd Hoodwin

-Let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure; Mdlle Reuters is a skillful architect.
- And interest?
-yes, no doubt; it will be the cement between every stone! — Charlotte Bronte

I think the most exciting thing is access to information. People's ability to document things and expose things that may have not otherwise been documented and exposed. All the information you want is available instantly, which is overwhelming, but I think can have a positive change on the political process and accountability for leaders and corporations. — Moby