Nicolas Krauss Quotes & Sayings

the sales compensation plan is Batman, the sales contest is Robin. — Mark Roberge

You've always been two people. The Jenna who wants to please and the Jenna who secretly resents in. They won't break, you know. Your parents never thought you were perfect. You did. — Mary E. Pearson

For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination. These are easy to perceive in the totalitarian societies, much less so in the system of 'brainwashing under freedom' to which we are subjected and which all too often we serve as willing or unwitting instruments. — Noam Chomsky

The audience perceives only what the actor wants to do to the other actor. — David Mamet

When Paul Brown talked contract, the championship game was part of it. We took the championship game for granted. — Otto Graham

Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury. — Johan Huizinga

From the beginning, Fassbinder's films showed that with the help of art it is possible to defend oneself against the destructive forces of the present, and that in the artistic process there is some kind of labour of resistance and a possibility of survival. It gradually also became a fundamental theme of his films. — Christian Braad Thomsen

She had a dream, quite singular, dearest to her heart.
She had a dream, quite eccentric, treasured in her soul.
She nurtured it, she cuddled it and kept it covered in the twinkle of her eye and waited patiently with a fond expectation.
Yet in that sky wrapped in the radiance of a rainbow , all but that dream came alive.
She often smiled at that solitary dream with numb tears of pallid fulfilment. — Debatrayee Banerjee