Mourid Barghouti I Saw Ramallah Quotes & Sayings

Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet. — Thomas Carlyle

Winning the Oscar was like winning all the prizes in one single night that I never won as a kid. — Kate Winslet

I think part of the reason ideas haven't come in is that the world of cinema is changing so drastically, and in a weird way, feature films I think have become cheap. Everything is kind of throwaway. It's experienced and then forgotten. — David Lynch

I was really suffering from my resolutions much more than from my [vices]. I ought to try and cure myself without making any resolutions. According to him my personality in the course of years had become divided in two, one of which gave orders while the other was only a slave which, directly when the supervision was relaxed, disobeyed the master's orders out of sheer love of liberty. So what I ought to do was to give it absolute freedom and at the same time look my vice in the face as if it was something new and I were meeting it for the first time. I must not fight it, I must forget it, and treat it with complete indifference, turning my back on it as if it were not worthy to keep me company. — Italo Svevo

The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own. — William Empson

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves. — Rollo May

Inherited aptitudes and traits of temperament count for quite as much as length of habituation in deciding what range of habits will come to dominate any individual's scheme of life. — Thorstein Veblen

I didn't foresee my career. Things happen. — Claire Denis

She certainly hadn't planned to sleep with anyone. But Mr. Tall, Dark, and Sexy had approached and it had been over for her. — Katie Reus

Man, considered not merely as an organized being, but as a rational agent and a member of society, is perhaps the most wonderfully contrived, and to us the most interesting specimen of Divine wisdom that we have any knowledge of. — Richard Whately

Writing has to support itself. — V.S. Naipaul

King with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, — Charles Dickens

I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now. — Sally Ride

Doorway. In Palestine, at least, no one would burst into tears at the sight of her. Sitting cross-legged on the ground, Tedi traced her name into the dirt and remembered Mr. Loederman's wife, Lena, an old-fashioned woman who wore crocheted collars. They had had a grown son, a daughter-in-law, and a grandson. All dead, she realized. She should have hugged him back. The accordion raced up a scale. Young voices — Anita Diamant

Education is the key to great opportunities. — Lailah Gifty Akita