Hoffmann Brothers Quotes & Sayings

Sanity means the wholeness of the consciousness. And our society is only part conscious, like an idiot. — D.H. Lawrence

I think you cannot make films without choosing everything. — Claire Denis

Aspiring black leaders are often asked to transcend race, even though no one ever asked, say, Hillary Clinton to transcend gender. This is a precarious race straddle that most members of the breakthrough generation seem to reject. Even the most well meaning white Obama supporters seem to take deep satisfaction in this idea. Obama, they insisted, could be raceless, a reasurringly optimistic view of America's deepest burden that ignores countless peices of evidence to the contrary. — Gwen Ifill

The referee told me this league has never had a brawl of that magnitude," said Mr. Penderwick after a long, painful silence. "Of course, at the time I was pretending to be a casual passerby and not a father at all. — Jeanne Birdsall

Why does Kubrick always chill our blood, and make us huddled up scared stiff with eyes wide shut? Because even dead he's still "Shinnying" with his old hand and his eye-catching plots. — Ana Claudia Antunes

Our emphasis on science has resulted in an alarming rise in world populations, the demand and ever-increasing emphasis of science to improve their standards and maintain their vigor. I have been forced to the conclusion that an over-emphasis of science weakens character and upsets life's essential balance. — Charles Lindbergh

I was as repelled by the French as I was attracted by their country. — Margaret Anderson

Literature is the power of fiction itself: not making a claim about what the world is, but about the imagination of a possible world. — Claire Colebrook

And rape women as a way of getting out of paying them, with the UN saying they documented 1,300 rapes in Unity State alone over the course of six months. — Oliver Markus

saying. 'I want it as a birthday present to my venerable — Esther Forbes

You find the most important thing that really grabs you, and put it right up top. Don't bury the lead. Put it at the top. Best thing to do. Never go wrong that way. It's an immutable law of journalism. It just always works. — Kurt Loder

Our natural rights come from an authority beyond the petty rule of man. — Bryant McGill

MOM: Fuck santa. If I had a million little elves helping me and random people feeding me cookies, I'd be jolly all the time too. — Sophia Fraioli

If I am only happy for myself, many fewer chances for happiness. If I am happy when good things happen to other people, billions more chances to be happy! — Dalai Lama XIV