Mazarine Coffee Quotes & Sayings

The primary object of non-co-operation is nowhere stated to be paralysis of the Government. The primary object is self-purification. — Mahatma Gandhi

Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike. — Benjamin Tucker

You can take from an incomplete man what he knows in his field and by learning from many incomplete men, you can become a complete man — Gustave Norling

I read a script and I know immediately whether that role is for me or not. — Jennifer Coolidge

Larkin Schoendienst had told Betsy that in DC there were two ways to murder policy without appearing to have committed a crime. One was cobwebbing, in which a person with an idea--usually a young and bright person with a good, new idea--would fall victim to the surrounding bureaucrats, who would exclaim, 'Why, that's a good idea!' and throw out a web of reporting requirements, consulting requirements, or new budgeting procedures. Soon the person and his idea would be totally immobilized by a shimmering silken cocoon, to be put away and devoured another day.

The second method was the interagency task force. — Neal Stephenson

Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it. — Benedict Cumberbatch

Doctors sometimes draw maps of other parts of you, and your own map can become intensely interesting, but catch them trying to draw a map of a child's mind, which is not only confused, but keeps going round all the time. — J.M. Barrie

To the documentary director the appearance of things and people is only superficial. It is the meaning behind the thing and the significance underlying the person that occupy his attention ... Documentary approach to cinema differs from that of story-film not in its disregard for craftsman-ship, but in the purpose to which that craftsmanship is put. Documentary is a trade just as carpentry or pot-making. The pot-maker makes pots, and the documentarian documentaries. — Paul Rotha

All you must do is accecpt all that is unaccecptable to you. — Cheri Huber

Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity. — Vladimir Nabokov

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate. — Ronald Blythe

Wylan drew himself up. "I may not have had your ... education, but I'm sure I know plenty of words that you don't."
"Also the proper way to fold a napkin and dance a minuet. Oh, and you can play the flute. Marketable skills, merchling. Marketable skills."
"No one dances the minuet any more," grumbled Wylan. — Leigh Bardugo

It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century. — Alan Hovhaness