Makavejev Quotes & Sayings

When others demand that we become the people they want us to be, they force us to destroy the person we really are. It's a subtle kind of murder ... the most loving parents and relatives commit this murder with smiles on their faces. — Jim Morrison

Before that point, I'd always been scared of lightning. There was something terrifying about sudden electricity sparks flowing in the sky, but it didn't matter after that point. Perhaps I had better things to worry about. — Sambhav Ratnakar

Alas for America as I must so often say, the ungirt, the diffuse, the profuse, procumbent, one wide ground juniper, out of which no cedar, no oak will rear up a mast to the clouds! It all runs to leaves, to suckers, to tendrils, to miscellany. The air is loaded with poppy, with imbecility, with dispersion, & sloth. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I usually wake up at 7, 7:15, without an alarm. I hate the sound of an alarm. — Pete Hamill

stars, Where did such anguish come from?" And the stars tell him, The stars tell him everything. — Alexander Blok

Understanding like the eye; whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own subject. — John Locke

Well, God knows you're barely standing but you've got to carry this heavy load. — Joe Brooks

The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid. — Marcus Aurelius

My background is in filmmaking, and my mentor is Dusan Makavejev, who combined fiction and documentary. — Joshua Oppenheimer

Ali and I have become friends over the years. I was on a plane with him one time when he was the champion. — Robert Goulet

Did your great-grandfather have any children? — Fern Britton

Information cannot serve as an effective substitute for thinking. — Bernard Baruch

I'm really lucky because my mom is a good beauty muse. — Elizabeth Jagger

Enjoy yourself -it's later than you think. — Guy Lombardo

Guys, we spend our whole lives trying to get pussy, so when pussy comes to us, it's like, "Whoa, this is amazing!" At 27, I thought nothing could be better than that, but at 35, I've come to understand the darker side of it. — Tucker Max

There were some cigarettes still in the case. I lit one, and started to get into the state of mind where, though everything was still undeniably queer, I could no longer understand why I had been quite so near panic. It — John Wyndham