Gelong Quotes & Sayings

It is one of the great ironies of the American war in Iraq - was that the guys who really got the most out of it were the Iranians. And they have us to thank for that. Yeah, I mean we basically put Maliki in power in 2006, but he has been - he's really not a friend of the United States. He's a friend of the Iranian regime. — Dexter Filkins

In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like. — Richard Rogers

What formed me as a musician, a songwriter, the sound and personality of my band, a whole lot of that happened well before 1991. — Chris Cornell

Eve was not a born know-all. She was ignorant. But she was a good learner. — Geoffrey Sampson

The people of Israel are entitled, as is any other nation, to live in peace and safety. — Jonathan Sacks

For example, the opposition between acute and grave phonemes has the capacity to suggest an image of bright and dark, of pointed and rounded, of thin and thick, of light and heavy, etc. — Roman Jakobson

I moved to Manchester to join a band and ended up getting into acting, and I moved back to London to become an actor and ended up joining a band. — Jim Sturgess

I believe that if the Tribune company ever tries to close down Wrigley Field that you will have a protest from every corner of the globe. — Billy Corgan

I now know that there is a happy abundance of science writers who pen the most lucid and thrilling prose - Timothy Ferris, Richard Fortey and Tim Flannery are three that jump out from a single station of the alphabet (and that's not even to mention the late but godlike Richard Feynman) - but, sadly, none of them wrote any textbook I ever used. — Bill Bryson

How can I live the rest of my life in this bubble now that I know all that I'm missing? — Nicola Yoon

On Hayao Miyazaki
I told Miyazaki I love the "gratuitous motion" in his films; instead of every movement being dictated by the story, sometimes people will just sit for a moment, or they will sigh, or look in a running stream, or do something extra, not to advance the story but only to give the sense of time and place and who they are.
"We have a word for that in Japanese," he said, "It's called ma. Emptiness. It's there intentionally."
Is that like the "pillow words" that separate phrases in Japanese poetry?
"I don't think it's like the "pillow word." He clapped his hands three or four times. "The time in between my clapping is ma. If you just have non-stop action with no breathing space at all, it's just busyness, but if you take a moment, then the tension building in the film can grow into a wider dimension. If you just have constant tension at 80 degrees all the time you just get numb. — Roger Ebert

There is in me a darkness that, by darkness challenged, will rise up and have its way. — Dean Koontz