Gazzotti Vehlmann Quotes & Sayings

West Side Story was a highly popular and successful musical play and now is a similarly well-received motion picture. (I would think that it could also be used shrewdly as a document for discussion in Sunday Schools, in place of some of the ridiculous curriculum materials now in use). — William Stringfellow

The commentaries usually mention nine kinds of internal formations: desire, hatred, pride, ignorance, stubborn views, attachment, doubt, jealousy, and selfishness. Among these, the fundamental internal formation is ignorance, the lack of clear seeing. Ignorance is the raw material out of which the other internal formations are made. Although there are nine internal formations, because "desire" is always listed first, it is often used to represent all the internal formations. — Thich Nhat Hanh

I find it strangely beautiful that the camera with its inherent clarity of object and detail can produce images that in spite of themselves offer possibilities to be more than they are a photograph of nothing very important at all, nothing but an intuition, a response, a twitch from the photographer's experience. — Joel Meyerowitz

I love the Japanese director Shohei Imamura. His masterpiece in 1979 called, the English title was 'Vengeance is Mine.' — Bong Joon-ho

The really happy woman is the one who can enjoy the scenery when she has to take a detour. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but rather a manner of traveling. — Samuel Johnson

There are days that I wake up and I complain, and when I complain I pinch myself and say, 'that's for complaining.' Not many people can do what they really like in life. — Enrique Iglesias

favorite spectre of Sleepy Hollow, the Headless Horseman, who had been heard several times of late, patrolling the country; and, it was said, tethered his horse nightly among the graves in the churchyard. — Washington Irving

He had green eyes so clear and bright that they made you think of poisonous drinks or maybe mouthwash. — Holly Black

So long as we remember names, so long those people live. — Bernard Cornwell

You do not mean there is danger of peace?, cried Jack. — Patrick O'Brian

I'm stuck. I'm stuck in yesterday, and you're tomorrow. — Rebecca Donovan

Her body became liquid, and she thought, if they could bottle him, he would make the best pain medication. — Marissa Meyer

You are not a powerless speck of dust drifting around in the wind ... we are, each of us, like beautiful snowflakes-unique, and born for a specific reason and purpose. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

I was more conservative when I was younger. But I don't think that I've moved left - I think the country has moved right. — Nick Hanauer