Kweli Conference Quotes & Sayings

The writing, acting and the directing all complement each other and make each other better. It's one of those amazing instances where everything seems to come together. — Alex Gansa

There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink. — Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

Forever always seems to be around when it begins, but forever never seems to be around when it ends — Ben Harper

Existence itself stands in need of nothing, for it lacks nothing, whereas everything else needs it, because outside of it there is nothing. Nothingness stands in need of existence, as a sick man lacks health and is in need. Health has no need of a sick man. To want nothing, therefore, characterizes the highest perfection, is fullest and purest existence. — Meister Eckhart

In 1970, Dean Robert Ebert offered me the Chair of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. I moved to Harvard because I missed the university environment and, more particularly, the stimulating interaction with the eager, enthusiastic, and unprejudiced young minds of the students and fellows. — Baruj Benacerraf

The clandestine operation tucked several floors below ground level inside a Los Angeles high-rise had never before made her queasy. Today the copper walls, marble flooring, refrigerated temperature and minimal furnishings took discomfort to a new level. She'd swear Alien was about to burst from her belly. — Robin Bielman

Some people call it the world of dreams, but it is as real as anything
else ... ' Jenny — L.J.Smith

We live in a time when to reject the idea of an all-seeing, all-knowing, all-powerful government is to be viewed by that government as being anti-government. — Dave Champion

I don't mean to be gross, but the only time it's good to yell "I have diarrhea" is when you're playing Scrabble because it's worth a shitload of points. — Zach Galifianakis

In the end, time is the best ally of poets. It clarifies their works and makes them accessible to an ever widening circle of readers. — Mieczyslaw Jastrun

Honestly, Bob: how do you carve a scream? — Ilsa J. Bick