P1261 Quotes & Sayings

Have books 'happened' to you? Unless your answer to that question is 'yes,' I'm unsure how to talk to you — Haruki Murakami

Conscience was the barmaid of the Victorian soul. Recognizing that human beings were fallible and that their failings, though regrettable, must be humored, conscience would permit, rather ungraciously perhaps, the indulgence of a number of carefully selected desires. — C.E.M. Joad

When I started to play with my fingernails, it was not just for volume. The most important thing was giving the guitar different colors in its voices ... — Andres Segovia

A good photograph is like a good hound dog, dumb, but eloquent. — Eugene Atget

Xander, there are two certainties in life--death and truth. They will both pursue you to your grave. There is no escaping them. But we run from them anyway in hopes that somehow we can slip by unnoticed. In the end, one or both of them catch up. Running doesn't solve anything. — A.C. Williams

I did this movie right after it about the life of Chet Baker. It's called Born to Be Blue. In that situation, there's a real clear character you're drawing on. It's a real person. It's really exciting and interesting to do the research to figure out how to make that a nuanced, three-dimensional human being. — Ethan Hawke

Man never dies, nor is he ever born; bodies die, but he never dies. — Swami Vivekananda

The attitude of the Indian millionaires was similar. Gandhi called upon them to repent, and naturally they preferred him to the Socialists and Communists who, given the chance, would actually have taken their money away. — George Orwell