Marcilio Franca Quotes & Sayings

Become disinterested in your pain and suffering. Only then can you make space for your longstanding joy. — David Ault

Voting for the right is doing nothing for it. — Henry David Thoreau

I don't like myself very much as a person, but I'm proud of what I create. — Steven Morrissey

If there's one thing I feel very strongly about, it's that there shouldn't be a distinction between pianists who play Ligeti and those who play Chopin. It might seem that they involve different skill sets, but I don't think that's true: whether playing Ives or Bach or Beethoven, you must bring the same imagination, the same sensitivity, and an ability to deal with same kinds of musical problems. The method behind my madness, anyway, is to keep plugging away at this idea. — Jeremy Denk

Can you think of a single area of government in which George Bush hasn't already made things worse than Bill Clinton did? — Harry Browne

A tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would be troublesome. — Antonin Artaud

No form of art repeats or imitates successfully all that can be said by another; the writer conveys his experience of life along a channel of communication closed to painter, mathematician, musician, film-maker. — Storm Jameson

Indifference is isolation. In difference is texture and wonder. — Edwin Schlossberg

I wanted to be an actor because I saw 'Dog Day Afternoon,' you know what I mean? — Martin Freeman

I just look back on my season [2004] as a year where I've had to prove myself. I've had to fight all the way through to the end. — Greg Rusedski

Yet now leaning here, till the gate prints my arm, I feel the weight that has formed itself in my side. Something has formed ... some hard thing. — Virginia Woolf

Thought as such ... is an act of negation, of resistance to that which is forced upon it; this is what thought has inherited from its archetype, the relation between labor and material. Today, when ideologues tend more than ever to encourage thought to be positive, they cleverly note that positivity runs precisely counter to thought, and that it takes friendly persuasion by social authority to accustom thought to positivity. — Theodor W. Adorno

The World is not enough used to this way of writing, to the moment. It knows not that in the minutiae lie often the unfoldings ofthe Story, as well as of the heart; and judges of an action undecided, as if it were absolutely decided. — Samuel Richardson