Gance Quotes & Sayings

Shakespeare, Rembrandt, Beethoven will make films... all legends, all mythologies and all myths, all founders of religion, and the very religions... await their exposed resurrection, and the heroes crowd each other at the gate. — Abel Gance

There are two aspects of individual harmony: the harmony between body and soul, and the harmony between individuals. All the tragedy in the world, in the individual and in the multitude, comes from lack of harmony. And harmony is the best given by producing harmony in one's own life. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

They called it Operation Silence although it was very loud. — Malala Yousafzai

Great sex is wonderful while it's happening, but who remembers great sex they had in 1983? — Bob Seger

Tree' is the title of a dance, is the cadence of a song. The black silhouette is only a moment of stillness caught by the shutter of the eye. It is finely tuned to the harmonics of the air. It loves both the sun and the wind and is let turn towards its beloved and so become itself.
This is the dance of all living things. This is why endangered peoples say if they have their dance they will never die. — Amanda Fieldsend

The best part really is once I'm up on the stage. — Harry Wayne Casey

Motion-capture is not a genre. Motion-capture is a tool and technique and what we tried to do was to really use both motion-capture and traditional animation to build a system. — Peter Jackson

Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly welcome any reading matter which avoids this. — Rose Macaulay

It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends. — Sinclair Lewis

Great truths always dwell a long time with small minorities, and the real voice of God is often that which rises above the masses, not that which follows them. — Francis Lieber

True Christianity is to manifest genuinely Christ-like behavior by dependence on the working of the Spirit of God within. — Ray Stedman

Sometimes you see a movie and you can really feel that it's an actor putting in a performance. Someone said 'cut' and they're back in their trailer having a coffee or getting their hair done. — Andrew Dominik

I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped. — Harold Washington

It's an unnecessary burden to try to think of words and also worry at the same time whether they're the right words. — Peter Elbow

Whoever designed this city built it to complement the setting sun as perfectly as the stars complement the night. — Sara Raasch

When I couldn't speak English, I loved silent films circa 1914-1929, Abel Gance being my favorite director. — Kola Boof