Iphigenia Film Quotes & Sayings

Vast objects of remote altitude must be looked at a long while before they are ascertained. Ages are the telescope tubes that must be lengthened out for Shakespeare; and generations of men serve but a single witness to his claims. — Walter Savage Landor

His very regard for truth melts at last into a perversion of truth. — George Dangerfield

The negro king desired to be portrayed as white. But do not laugh at the poor African; for every man is but another negro king, and would like to appear in a color different from that with which Fate has bedaubed him. — Heinrich Heine

Numerical precision is the very soul of science. — D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it. — Lao-Tzu

Perfect preservation isn't life, it's death. — Lois McMaster Bujold

I think writers are not only writers, they are also citizens. — Chinua Achebe

The story is told that when Joe was a child his cousins emptied his Christmas stocking and replaced the gifts with horse manure. Joe took one look and bolted for the door, eyes glittering with excitement. 'Wait, Joe, where are you going? What did ol' Santa bring you?' According to the story Joe paused at the door for a piece of rope. 'Brought me a bran'-new pony but he got away. I'll catch 'em if I hurry.' And ever since then it seemed that Joe had been accepting more than his share of hardship as good fortune, and more than his share of shit as a sign of Shetland ponies just around the corner, Thoroughbred stallions just up the road. — Ken Kesey

Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks you to image the world through someone else's eyes, and it allows you to try to empathize with situations that you haven't actually experienced. — Dan Chaon

Getting up on stage and being able to make people feel like their lives are slightly more special than they realize is my only talent, so that's what I use. I use my talent. — Torquil Campbell

Support me by the strength of heaven that I may never turn back, or desire false pleasures that will disappear into nothing. — Anonymous

It was the greatest in its subtleties. It — Mariana Zapata

Do not consider anything for your interest which makes you break your word, quit your modesty or inclines you to any practice which will not bear the light or look the world in the face. — Marcus Aurelius

The million-dollar marital Band-Aid, never a wise idea. — Marisha Pessl

They call our language the mother tongue because the father seldom gets to speak. — George W. Bush