Guimonds Auto Quotes & Sayings

It isn't difficult to leave King Lear or Macbeth, but once you have gone back to yourself, you want it to be the same self you have always been. — Paul Scofield

If suicide be supposed a crime, it is only cowardice can impel us to it. If it be no crime, both prudence and courage should engage us to rid ourselves at once of existence when it becomes a burden. It is the only way that we can then be useful to society, by setting an example which, if imitated, would preserve every one his chance for happiness in life, and would effectually free him from all danger or misery. — David Hume

Music is the 'pure' art par excellence. It says nothing and has nothing to say. Never really having an expressive function, it is opposed to drama, which even in its most refined forms still bears a social message and can only be 'put over' on the basis of an immediate and profound affinity with the values and expectations of its audience. The theatre divides its public and divides itself. The Parisian opposition between right-bank and left-bank theatr, bourgeois theatre and avant-garde theatre, is inextricably aesthetic and political. — Pierre Bourdieu

The introduction to the 1 vs. 100 episode pointed out that Einstein had an IQ of 150 and Langan has an IQ of 195. Langan's IQ is 30 percent higher than Einstein's. But that doesn't mean Langan is 30 percent smarter than Einstein. That's ridiculous. All we can say is that when it comes to thinking about really hard things like physics, — Malcolm Gladwell

The divine essence itself is love and wisdom. — Emanuel Swedenborg

Don't wait for the miracle; be the miracle. — Debasish Mridha

Being a Negro writer these days is a racket and I'm going to make the most of it while it lasts. About twice a year I sell a story. It is acclaimed. I am a genius in the making. Thank God for this Negro literary renaissance. Long may it flourish — Wallace Thurman

I wanted to try to push some freedom into the men's clothes. — Miuccia Prada

I was on the verge of ruin but well-compensated by the miracle of still being alive at my age. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Dust in an urn long since, dispersed and dead
Is great Apollo; and the happier he — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Behind every stressful thought is the desire for things to be other than they are. — Toni Bernhard

The most fundamental flaw in society is fatherlessness. — Cassie Carstens

In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton. — Thomas Day

No one aspires to be the person who handles this kind of situation well. And we don't always handle it well. — Bruce Feiler

THE MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA(1929) the 'honesty' of documentary as compared with fiction film, the 'perfection' of the cinematic eye compared with human eye. — Steven Jay Schneider