Karl Stojka Quotes & Sayings

Every film is a new adventure, and I always meet new cast and crew members that blow my mind. — Gabriel Campisi

If we do not believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we do not believe in it at all. — Noam Chomsky

Most people do not take heed of the things they encounter, nor do they grasp them even when they have learned about them, although they suppose they do. — Heraclitus

Well ironically my last three roles have all been a mother. One was a Canadian film where the baby was taken away because she is a drug addict, in Irish Jam I play a mother to a four year old. I think in the future I'll be able to handle the role with a lot more depth. — Anna Friel

The right to determine your individual destiny belongs in your hands, and no one else's. — Ramez Naam

Billy Collins writes lovely poems. Limpid, gently and consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and were and some others besides. — John Updike

I've given you the power to kill me and you don't even know it. — Kirsty Moseley

We all go through periods of anguish, times when we think we can't face what lies ahead. But the only way to get past it is to go through it, straight through it. No detours, no camouflage, no running. You have to meet problems head-on, despite the pain. — Diana Palmer

Try to feel and give only love and compassion to every one; you will be happy. Don't judge or hate anything. You will be unhappy. — Jason Becker

The real trouble with liars ... was that there could never be any guarantee against their occasionally telling the truth. — Kingsley Amis

Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Decades of sorrow and loss, he had suffered. And all of them caused by this woman crouching in front of him with his blood on her lips. — Stephen Lloyd Jones

Political war was to be the rule, not the exception, in American life. "The country is so totally given up to the spirit of party, that not to follow blindfold the one or the other is an inexpiable offense," Adams wrote during Jefferson's first term.12 — Jon Meacham

There came to him an image of man's whole life upon the earth. It seemed to him that all man's life was like a tiny spurt of flame that blazed out briefly in an illimitable and terrifying darkness, and that all man's grandeur, tragic dignity, his heroic glory, came from the brevity and smallness of this flame. He knew his life was little and would be extinguished, and that only darkness was immense and everlasting. And he knew that he would die with defiance on his lips, and that the shout of his denial would ring with the last pulsing of his heart into the maw of all-engulfing night. — Thomas Wolfe