Mizoguchi Cinematography Quotes & Sayings

The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche. — Terence McKenna

We're resolving our differences and we're looking forward to putting out a record next year. — Brad Delson

The doctors are busy with the repulsive but beneficent work of amputation. You see the sharp, curved knife enter the healthy, white body, you see the wounded man suddenly regain consciousness with a piercing cry and curses, you see the army surgeon fling the amputated arm into a corner, you see another wounded man, lying in a litter in the same apartment, shrink convulsively and groan as he gazes at the operation upon his comrade, not so much from physical pain as from the moral torture of anticipation. - You behold the frightful, soul-stirring scenes; you behold war, not from its conventional, beautiful, and brilliant side, with music and drum-beat, with fluttering flags and galloping generals, but you behold war in its real phase - in blood, in suffering, in death. — Leo Tolstoy

[Janco] paused. His eyes held a distant gleam as if seeing into his past. 'My first practice was a shock. I was a cocky smart aleck
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[Opal] 'Was?'
[J] 'Be quiet. I'm telling a story here. — Maria V. Snyder

B. B. King is no match for Johann Sebastian Bach. — Ilana Mercer

Books to the people! — Anonymous

Let's face it: I look pretty out of shape. — Bill Hader

Each person decides in early childhood how he will live and how he will die ... His trivial behavior may be decided by reason, but his important decisions have already been made: what kind of person he will marry, how many children he will have, what kind of bed he will die in ... It is incredible to think, at first, that man's fate, all his nobility and all his degradation, is decided by a child no more than six years old, and usually three ... (but) it is very easy to believe by looking at what is happening in the world today, and what happened yesterday, and seeing what will happen tomorrow. — Eric Berne

Tell him that we have fucking reprogrammed reality. Tell him that language is a virus and that religion is an operating system and that prayers are just so much fucking spam. Tell him that or I'll fucking kill you, said the young man mildly, from the smoke. — Neil Gaiman

Love and Friendship, when you have them or lose them they are much like the Greek story of Icarus...
You can make you feel like you're soaring above the clouds with happiness when you have them or feel like you are plummeting to the depths of hell with despair when you lose them. — Anonymous

Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without. — Douglas Coupland

The universe is against us, which makes sense. So we get another McFlurry and talk about how fat we are for a while. — Mona Awad

For me, the food I like to make is the food I can enjoy all the time anytime. It's not too calculated or technical. — Daniel Boulud