Kaurismaki Film Quotes & Sayings

Neuroscience is now a very important research area in biology. We are now understanding a lot more about brains in babies, as well as children and adults. — Robert Winston

Al Qaeda really hurt us, but not as much as Rupert Murdoch has hurt us, particularly in the case of Fox News. Fox News is worse than Al Qaeda - worse for our society. It's as dangerous as the Ku Klux Klan ever was. — Keith Olbermann

The shot [in the 1956 film Written on the Wind] with Dorothy Malone walking down the stairs makes all rock videos ever after resemble forgotten, anemic nuns. — Aki Kaurismaki

You know as a scientist that both were developed completely independently of each other in the laboratories. And only afterward were the political situations contrived out of which they could be justified. — E.P. Thompson

For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement. — Pierre De Coubertin

In the oasis complex, the thirsty man images he sees water, palm trees, and shade not because he has evidence for the belief, but because he has a need for it. Desperate needs bring about a hallucination of their solution: thirst hallucinates water, the need for love hallucinates a prince or princess. The oasis complex is never a complete delusion: the man in the desert does see something on the horizon. It is just that the palms have withered, the well is dry, and the place is infected with locusts. — Alain De Botton

With you, I want it all. If I get a taste of what it could be, I won't ever want to let it go. I fell in love with you when I was sixteen, and that's never changed. But trusting you with my heart again is different. With you, I need to know it's forever. — Abbi Glines

But it really all boils down to this - we don't know them, for all our sincerity, our good intentions. We don't know, because we were never one of them. — F. Sionil Jose

Real film is light; digital is electricity. — Aki Kaurismaki

The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided. — Leo Tolstoy

I began with love and prayer," Moneo said. "I changed to anger and rebellion. I was transformed into what you see before you. I recognize my duty and I do it. — Frank Herbert

Mirror, mirror, on the wall, show me the one who thinks Sir Nomer is a dumb name for a doll. — Chanda Hahn