Nonnational Quotes & Sayings

The closer they come to transcending technique and the memorization of lines
the closer to really beginning to act, in short
the more Chinese they begin to seem. Happy now approaches Miss Forsythe to pick her up in the restaurant with a wonderful formality, his back straight, head high, his hand-gestures even more precise and formal, but with a comic undertone that ironically comes closer to conveying the original American idea of the scene than when he was trying to be physically sloppy and "relaxed"
that is, imitating an American. I think that by some unplanned magic we may end up creating something not quite American or Chinese but a pure style springing from the heart of the play itself
the play as a nonnational event, that is, a human circumstance. — Arthur Miller

I just keep praying for Joan to get her power back. To resolve her problems and rise to the top. To fight back! — Christina Hendricks

If the rules of creativity are the norm for a company, creative people will be the norm. — Jim Gilmore

Culture is not a matter of a change of climate. — George Horace Lorimer

There's a fine line between cultural criticism and bitterness. — Marc Maron

The best gift I was ever given was the arts. My mum gave me those on a silver platter. Growing up, her and my grandmother would take me to ballets, classical concerts, even smoky jazz clubs I wasn't supposed to be in! — Jill Scott

Within those confining walls, teachers - a bunch of men all armed with the same information - gave the same lectures every year from the same notebooks and every year at the same point in the textbooks made the same jokes. — Yukio Mishima

You bastard, he thought, almost affectionately, watching the minuscule protoplasm fluttering on the slide. You dirty little bastard. — Richard Matheson

If you have a very commanding argument that you cannot refute, not to accept the argument is to act irrationally. — Robert F. Almeder

Geologists have a saying - rocks remember. — Neil Armstrong

Solitude was a spell that freed her. — Robert Crais

You take what you want at the end of a gun, you murder and rape and steal, and you call it bringing civilization. And what is civilization, to you, but us being properly grateful to be murdered and raped and stolen from? You said you knew justice when you heard it. Well, what is your justice but you allowed to treat us as you like, and us condemned for even attempting to defend ourselves? — Ann Leckie

With a far-future setting merging Chinese and American culture, 'Firefly' also saw high-tech futurism blended with the traditional Wild West. — Jay Kristoff

God really is a Father, as displeased with a cramped, niggardly attitude of lack as with its opposite. — Brother Andrew

Love is unconditional acceptance. That quality is also our essential nature, who we really are. — Peter Shepherd

Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind, finding His satisfaction and His delight in the dissolution of His material being. — Mikhail Bakunin