Kamila Shamsie Kartography Quotes & Sayings

What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child? — William Godwin

There's music in my films but you seldom hear it. Very early I got the idea that the important things in films were people - the actors. They are the intermediary between the director and the audience. They make direct contact. People to people communication. — Frank Capra

Usher: Why do you play only on the black keys [of the piano]? I suppose you think black is good enough for the proletariat. You play on all the keys only for the bourgeoisie, is that it?
Oleg Bard: Please, citizen, please! I'm concentrating on the white ones!
Usher: So you think white is best? Play on both!
Oleg Bard: I am playing on both!
Usher: So you compromise with [the] Whites, opportunist! — Vladimir Mayakovsky

Its a moonsmile. No light of its own unless there's a sun for it to reflect off — Kamila Shamsie

That night as I cried myself to sleep I knew that, somewhere in the sky, Karim was doing the same; and some of my tears were his tears, and some of his tears were mine. — Kamila Shamsie

sacred is the task of the artist when he undertakes to paint the life of the People. Falsification here is far more pernicious than in the more artificial aspects of life. — George Eliot

I can see you, out there, reading between the lines. Come home, stranger. Come home, untangler of my thoughts. Come home and tell me, what do I do with this breaking heart of mine? — Kamila Shamsie

We are getting an education of a lifetime. We're actually out there in the real world. — Solange Knowles

Pete's a good guy."
"He just slept with my mother!"
"I didn't say he was perfect. — Debbie Macomber

A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the spirit within him. — B.K.S. Iyengar

I can't function around a man if I know his ability to give pleasure. — Kristen Ashley

The decision to use the atom bomb on Japanese cities, and the consequent buildup of enormous nuclear arsenals, was made by governments, on the basis of political and military perceptions. — Joseph Rotblat