Patriarches Et Prophetes Quotes & Sayings

The films I like to watch are when they make it relatable to human audiences. — Taika Waititi

'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel. — William Makepeace Thackeray

What's fame, after all? It can be what someone writes on your tombstone. — Peter Duncan

All dreams of the soul
End in a beautiful man's or woman's body. — William Butler Yeats

I see the carpet reflecting that narratological structure of the storytelling, with Scheherazade as the outside frame story on the outside, with the stories woven on the inside. It's also demonstrative of the infinity of it, with no beginning and no end. The carpet is also a kind of metonym for cinema, this idea that the flat surface carries a terrific depth of imaginative field while remaining totally flat. — Marina Warner

On the one hand, society needs a common faith and vigorous institutions with the power to coerce; and on the other, the individual as a human soul or as the bearer of a new and possibly saving heresy, must be free. It is difficult enough to reconcile these two needs, but the problem holds another hazard: the need of action under the pressure of time. — Jacques Barzun