Lanzmann Claude Quotes & Sayings

Self-reliance is the key to a vigorous life. A man must look inward to find his own answers. — Robin Williams

I don't believe in a chronological way of doing things. — Yoko Ono

The inhabitants of England in the age of Chaucer commonly used an expression, to be in hide and hair, meaning to be lost or beyond discovery. But then it disappears from the written record for four hundred years before resurfacing, suddenly and unexpectedly, in America in 1857 as neither hide nor hair. It is dearly unlikely that the phrase went into a linguistic coma for four centuries. So who was quietly preserving it for four hundred years, and why did it so abruptly return to prominence in the sixth decade of the nineteenth century in a country two thousand miles away? — Bill Bryson

Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and Hebrew, everything but the kitchen sink and Jesus. — Anne Lamott

Some nights you might go through an entire performance and not feel a thing, and the audience may have a much better time, 'cause if you're enjoying yourself on stage too much, they're having a terrible time because they can't hear you. And if you're a woman your mascara's running. — Anthony Hopkins

I have always said that archival images are images without imagination. They petrify thought and kill any power of evocation. — Claude Lanzmann

I think that no one human being would have been able to look at [a hypothetical photographic record of the Nazi gassing of Jews] ... I would have preferred to destroy it. It is not visible. — Claude Lanzmann

How easy it is to let the depth of the ditch or the severity of the brokenness stop a good work before we even stoop down to do it. — Christine Caine

N the dark everyone felt the same: the edges blurred. When I think of myself then, what I was like two years ago, I feel like a wound in a bad place, prone to be bumped on corners or edges. Never able to heal. — Sarah Dessen

There is no wisdom without love. — Nilakanta Sri Ram

More often than you might think, teaching science is inseparable from teaching doubt. — Lawrence M. Krauss

Making a history was not what I wanted to do. I wanted to construct something more powerful than that — Claude Lanzmann

Slay Goliath and the army behind him scatters. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Art, because it's so easy to do, and yet so difficult to do well, encourages humility in the human soul. — Robert Genn