Metteur Berlingo Quotes & Sayings

I believe artists should be able to step into other people's situations, contexts and cultures and work from there. If artists don't have that freedom, then, as someone has said, are we all writing our autobiographies? — Uwem Akpan

Humility about how little I know has encouraged me to listen more carefully and more wisely. — John Templeton

I am miserable now - not feeling unhappiness, just lack of life coming to me and coming out of me - resignation to getting nothing and seeking nothing, staying behind shell. The glare of unknown love, human, unhad by me, - the tenderness I never had. I don't want to be just a nothing, a sick blank, withdrawal into myself forever. I just want something, beside the emptiness I've carried around in me all my life. — Allen Ginsberg

Her voice had suddenly jumped a couple of social classes to underline her ownership status. — Joe Cawley

Watson loved them sour kind of jokes, which I enjoyed myself. I mean, ain't life some kind of a sour joke? Might's well laugh, that's the way him and me seen it, whether nice folks seen the joke or not. One time when Watson caught me grinning along with him, he give a wink and lifted up his hat. — Peter Matthiessen

Power is essentially amoral and one of the most important skills to acquire is the ability to see circumstances rather than good or evil. Power is a game - this cannot be repeated too often - and in games you do not judge your opponents by their intentions but by the effect of their actions. — Robert Greene

It is up to you whether social, intelligent and wonderful creatures are to be freed from their chains and cages where ruthless people keep them. The animals would, if they could, flee as I did, because a life in captivity is a life full of deprivation. — Natascha Kampusch

There are really no serious arguments for communion in the hand. But there are the most gravely serious kinds of arguments against it. — Dietrich Von Hildebrand

Japanese poetry does what poetry does everywhere: it intensifies and exalts experience. — Kenneth Rexroth

Something unexpected seemed to clear away between us, and, for a second, it seemed there was absolutely no difference in age between us, just two men kissing, and even this seemed to dissolve, as I began to feel we were not even two men, just two beings. — Andre Aciman

Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides. — Peter Benchley

I would've liked to have been a better businessman when I was younger. And of course, I couldn't, because it wasn't part of my atmosphere. I never lived with accountants, I never lived with lawyers. — Jack Kirby

Fate decides until challenged by the fated — Kami Garcia