Opencast Quotes & Sayings

I never understand when people say, 'Do you do comedy or tragedy?' I don't think they're very much different. They both have to be true, and there isn't a great play in the world that doesn't have funny parts to it - as 'Salesman' does, as 'King Lear' does. The whole idea is to reflect life in some way, which means surely you have to have both. — Mike Nichols

Tomorrow could be just few steps away - a dream, yesterday the fucking nightmare... — Deyth Banger

I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music. — Carter Burwell

Our New England climate is mild and equable compared with that of the Platte. — Francis Parkman

I remember my visit to the opencast iron ore mines in Keonjhar, Orissa. There was forest there once. And children like these. Now the land is like a raw, red wound. Red dust fills your nostrils and lungs. The air is red, the water is red, the people are red, their lungs and hair are red. All day and all nights trucks rumble through their villages, bumper to bumper, thousands and thousands of trucks, taking ore to Paradip port from where it will go to China. There it will turn into cars and smoke and sudden cities that spring up overnight. Into a 'growth rate' that leaves economists breathless. Into weapons to make war. — Arundhati Roy

That is the freakiest thing that ever happened to me." I nodded toward the mess. "And if you knew my life, you'd realize just how freaky that is. — Patricia Briggs

I may have to shop with them. But on Sunday I don't want to have to worship with them. I want to be able to just be myself and let my hair down. It's also, of course, as we know, the seat of political organization and the affirming of your blackness and so on. — Michael Emerson

That ere long, now that curiosity has been so much excited on this subject, some human remains will be detected in the older alluvium of European valleys, I confidently expect. — Charles Lyell

Jesus had a universal concern for those who suffered that transcended the rules of the ancient world. — John Ortberg

I say this quite deliberately, this is the finest Shakespearean performance I've seen. — Donald Wolfit