Imfish Quotes & Sayings

Today, as we have seen, fascism and communism are discredited, but are replaced by a paraphilic consumer culture driven by fantasy, desperately in search of distractions and escalating sensations, and a fundamentalist culture wherein the rigors of a private journey are shunned in favor of an ideology that, at the expense of the paradoxes and complexities of truth, favors one-sided resolutions, black-and-white values, and a privileging of one's own complexes as the norm for others. — James Hollis

It's funny: as a director, there are movies you make because you're passionate about getting your vision across, and you know that you're vision is different than anybody else. In those cases, you take the plunge, and it works, or it doesn't. You make the stylistic choices based on how you feel about the material. — Michael Lehmann

The method of estimating the potency of insulin solutions is based on the effect that insulin produces upon the blood sugar of normal animals. — Frederick Banting

Yes I did study to be a preacher, but I didn't finish. — Kim Ki-duk

Thomas Paine, so celebrated and so despised as he traveled through the critical events of his time, has long appealed to biographers. Paine was present at the creation both of the United States and of the French Republic. His eloquence, in the pamphlet 'Common Sense,' propelled the American colonists toward independence. — Edmund Morgan

When you are racing in an able-bodied competition, you're all equal and you go out there and try your best, and that's what counts. — Natalie Du Toit

The forces of the market are just that: They are forces; they are like the wind and the tides; they are things that if you want to try to ignore them, you ignore them at your peril, and if you understand that they are there, working their way, if you find a way of ordering your life that is compatible with these forces, indeed which harnesses these forces to the benefit of your society, that's the way to go. — Arnold Harberger

Creativity is not simply a property of exceptional people but an exceptional property of all people. — Ron Carter

During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my readers to think in evolutionary terms. — Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

He knew something he hadn't known before ... He not only missed her. He still loved her. — Karen Kingsbury

To call a Christian a theist is roughly equivalent to calling the space shuttle Atlantis a glider. — R.C. Sproul

If I see darkness in my nation, I bring light to her. — Sunday Adelaja