Persepolis Famous Quotes & Sayings

After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians, who were ready for this fusion of classical and jazz. — Gunther Schuller

A brilliant inquiry into the contemporary Iranian predicament and what it means for the world. At a time when all too many of our leading thinkers are mired in the weeds of provincialism and narrow ideological wars, Postel has written a work of grace, intelligence, and towering integrity. Reading 'Legitimation Crisis' in Tehran is nothing less than a masterpiece of moral and political criticism. — Afshin Molavi

Philosophy is not a theory but an activity — Ludwig Wittgenstein

I don't think I'm the best singer in the world, for sure, but I loved doing it [in Into the Woods] ... I'll always find it tough, singing in front of people. — Emily Blunt

In coming to that agreement, my party had a clear philosophy throughout. In Northern Ireland, we should have institutions that respected the differences of the people and that gave no victory to either side. — John Hume

I went straight in. Fade in, one ... whatever. He's playing the piano in the radio station. — Ronald Harwood

Dare to let your dreams reach beyond you. — Maya Angelou

It's so much easier to walk away than it is to have to explain to someone that you never want to see them again. — Meg Cabot

15 men on the dead mans chest - yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum — Robert Louis Stevenson

I'm always astonished to see how badly people can behave when they think no one is noticing. — Diane Mott Davidson

All that the South has ever desired was that the Union, as established by our forefathers, should be preserved, and that the government as originally organized should be administered in purity and truth. — Robert E.Lee

I love family reunions. Maybe next year we could pass out samurai swords. — Doug Solter

This country is transforming before our eyes. In thirty years or so, the majority will no longer be European Americans; the first generation of mostly babies of color has already been born. This new diversity will give us a better understanding of the world and enrich our cultural choices, yet there are people whose sense of identity depends on the old hierarchy. It may just be their fear and guilt talking: What if I am treated as I have treated others? — Gloria Steinem

Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys and women more than men. And there's no doubt about that. We just don't like to think about it. Certainly the men don't like to think about it. — Maurice Sendak

Prior to the monotheistic Yahweh, the gods made sense, in that they had familiar, if supra-human appetites - they didn't just want a lamb shank, they wanted the best lamb shank, wanted to seduce all the wood nymphs, and so on. But the early Jews invented a god with none of those desires, who was so utterly unfathomable, unknowable, as to be pants-wettingly terrifying. So even if His actions are mysterious, when He intervenes you at least get the stress-reducing advantages of attribution - it may not be clear what the deity is up to, but you at least know who is responsible for the locust swarm or the winning lottery ticket. There is Purpose lurking, as an antidote to the existential void. — Robert M. Sapolsky