Leistenbruch Quotes & Sayings

She understood children, and knew that they were adults handicapped by a humiliating disguise and had their adult qualities within them. — Rebecca West

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. — Robert Benchley

Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so. — Noam Chomsky

I hang up. I feel like a serious man in the emotional climax of a film that ends with a teary defeat. I wish this was in a film. — Ben Brooks

People face death while they're still alive, — Haruki Murakami

Against the urgency of people dying in the streets, what in God's name is the point of cultural studies?...At that point, I think anybody who is into cultural studies seriously as an intellectual practice, must feel, on their pulse, its ephemerality, its insubstantiality, how little it registers, how little we've been able to change anything or get anybody to do anything. If you don't feel that as one tension in the work that you are doing, theory has let you off the hook. — Stuart Hall

And I realize now that that was ... that's the best way to love someone. Hold them close, know that you're loved, let it wash over you — Esther Earl

I care about climate change because of our children. I want to safeguard their future. — Cate Blanchett

Under Barack Obama, the only 'Change' is that 'Hope' has been hard to find. Now millions of Americans are insecure about their future. But instead of inspiring us by reminding us of what makes us special, he divides us against each other. He tells Americans they're worse off because others are better off. That people got rich by making others poor. — Marco Rubio

We must be much more angry with theft than before, and yet much kinder to thieves than before. There — G.K. Chesterton

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. — Novalis

Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is completely different. I don't use one piece of technology that I used when I started directing. — James Cameron

But giving drugs to a cat is no joke, Kemp! — H.G.Wells

I've come to feel very strongly, not as a joke, that if you appoint a committee of more than four people, their efficiency starts to deteriorate. — Charlton Heston

I don't feel the breath of a thousand people over my shoulder. — Mike White