Joukowsky Brown Quotes & Sayings

Far from being reluctantly propelled into hostilities by popular war fever, leaders incite that fever in order to gather support for their war policies. Thereby do they attempt to distract the public from pressing domestic matters, serve the overseas interests of U.S. investors, justify gargantuan military budgets, and present themselves as great leaders. — Michael Parenti

Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made. — Andy Goldsworthy

If you ever get really dressed up for a party, you get a feeling from the reactions of people that you don't need to be that loud. It's the same when you act. You have to always consider what's around you and the texture of things and try to meld in with what's going on. — Franka Potente

Moving provides meaning for our humble (if still vicious) life of four-dimensional existence. Four-dimensional existence makes the frightening fox hunt into an entertainment, or war into a pastime or a sport. Even when evil is dull and monotonous, there tends to be a lot of movement, action and entertainment involved.
Maybe movies are evil. — Gus Van Sant

sometimes it's easier to search for treasure than to find it, because finding it forces you to make decisions about what to do with it, and it makes you fear the reality of how hard it may be to keep it without becoming a slave to it! — The Urban Griot

The chief evil of war is more evil. War is the concentration of all human crimes. Here is its distinguishing, accursed brand. Under its standard gather violence, malignity, rage, fraud, perfidy, rapacity, and lust. If it only slew man, it would do little. It turns man into a beast of prey. — William Ellery Channing

There were days when I would say, 'God, I can't be without Leo'. He was my rock. We were such a team, nothing could break us, nothing could come near us. — Kate Winslet

I'm horrified most of the time. I wish it was more complicated, but at the same time, each time I try to complicate it I hate it because I hate the idea of writing to impress. — Lou Doillon

When I asked the president [Barack Obama], can you kill an American on American soil, it should have been an easy answer. It's an easy question. It should have been a resounding and unequivocal no. The president's response, he hasn't killed anyone yet. — Rand Paul

It's the only way I know how to deal with Conan's BMS." "His what?" "Bitchy man syndrome, — H.P. Mallory

I should have known better than to take a job as an assistant to a psychic detective. — Jayne Ann Krentz

To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest. — Woodrow Wilson

It occurred to me that I had the duty to give society something in exchange for the free education I was getting. — Mario Bunge

The narcissist enjoys being looked at and not looking back. — Mason Cooley