Nikiforov Quotes & Sayings

The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him. — Thomas Carlyle

Just making a movie the way 'All is Lost' had to be made was a great experience, because it was structured differently than any other film I will make for the rest of my life. — J. C. Chandor

Isn't today a day to devote to craft? Isn't tomorrow? Isn't every day, routinely, until the end of time? — Eric Maisel

Every advancing step I take toward my goal of comfort is yet another retreating step I take away from God's goal of the impossible. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

If a man knows what he wants, then he is in a position to decide that he will get it. This is faith. The determined decision of a man with desire. — Phil Pringle

We're just a bubble in a boiling pot. — Jack Johnson

The failure of art is, as we have said, not a complete failure. Substantial truth is revealed to us, we are not cheated of that; but it is revealed only in the equivocal form of beauty, submerged, so to speak, in the flood of aesthetic emotion. It is only because truth is revealed in it that the emotion is aesthetic; but emotional truth, truth in the guise of beauty, is not truth at all in the formal sense Art asserts nothing; and truth as such is matter of assertion. To be itself, it demands logical form. Art fails us because it does not assert. It is pregnant with a message that it cannot deliver. To — R.G. Collingwood

I had been on cloud nine all day until that point. But the higher your cloud, the farther your rain falls. — Chris Colfer

Music blows lyrics up very quickly, and suddenly they become more than art. They become pompous and they become self-conscious ... I firmly believe that lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you not only have the music, but you've got costume, story, acting, orchestra. There's a lot to take in. — Stephen Sondheim

This is what fools people: a man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his life as if he were recounting it. — Jean-Paul Sartre

As a child, I lived in Germany at the Ramstein air force base, where my dad sang at a nightclub in Kaiserslautern. My parents couldn't afford a babysitter, so when I was, like, ten or 11, I would go with them to the bar until two in the morning. — James Mercer

Marry your son when you will, but you daughter when you can. — Benjamin Franklin

We cover hamburgers, chicken, veggie burgers, salads, we've got a pretty broad range. To me, McDonald's isn't only about the food. It's about the prices, it's about the way we eat. — Jim Cantalupo