Ghassan Kanafani Return To Haifa Quotes & Sayings

I really just like characters who you don't know where they stand for a long while. It's like people. You hang out with them for 10 years, and then all of a sudden they do something, and you say, 'Who are you?' That's more interesting. In life and on-screen. — Oscar Isaac

Self-Help Books of the Twentieth Century: Exploiting Hope and Fear," and — Margaret Atwood

If you've got a piece and you can feel the person who's going to direct it is really made for it, if it's really special for them, then it's going to be a better-than-usual experience. — Edward Norton

Indeed, I find that distance lends perspective and I often write better of a place when I am some distance from it. One can be so overwhelmed by the forest as to miss seeing the trees. — Louis L'Amour

. . . crop restrictions not only raise the price of corn and other crops but also tend to raise farmers' total revenues and earnings." Increase your corn profit by not growing corn? Here's a wonderful kind of business where everybody can get rich if they'll just do nothing. — P. J. O'Rourke

God's presence is the gift of prayer. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I know nostalgia is in the business of twisting memory into lies. — John Green

So there's a membrane of - of living tissue around that star," I say, trying to wrap my head around the concept. "A, a meat balloon. Around the whole damn star. — Peter Watts

Life is too short to hold back, so live It as if It's not guaranteed. — Queen Of Spades

Beauty begins in the eyes of the beholder; Reality ends in the mind of the observer. — Joey Lawsin

Commercial interests with their advertising industry do not want people to develop contentment and less greed. Military interests in economic, political, ethnic or nationalist guises, do not want people to develop more tolerance, nonviolence and compassion. And ruling groups in general, in whatever sort of hierarchy do not want the ruled to become too insightful, too independent, too creative on their own, as the danger is that they will become insubordinate, rebellious, and unproductive in their alloted tasks. — Robert Thurman