Phalon Quotes & Sayings

The Los Angeles Citizen-News (5/29/58) concurred, but felt the picture had more serious problems in the story department: Unfortunately, the story, as adapted for the screen comes off less praiseworthy, for most of the time the picture is not a little confusing. The story line is not easy to follow. ... Vertigo is technically a topnotch film. Storywise, little can be said. Hitchcock does as well as he can, considering the script, in a directorial capacity. Vertigo is not his best picture. — Dan Auiler

And on the moon there is surely water ... And up there, if water exists, and air, then so does life.
A life perhaps different from ours. Perhaps that water has the flavor of (let us say) glycyrrhizin, or cardamon, or even of pepper. If there are infinite worlds, this proves the infinite ingenuity of the Engineer of our Universe, but then there is no limit to this Poet. He can have created inhabited worlds everywhere, but inhabited by ever-different creatures. Perhaps the inhabitants of the sun are sunnier, brighter, and more illuminated than are the inhabitants of the earth, who are heavy with matter, and the inhabitants of the moon lie somewhere in between. On the sun live beings who are all Form, or all Act, if you prefer, while on the earth beings are made of mere Potentials that evolve, and on the moon they are in medio fluctuantes, lunatics, so to speak ... — Umberto Eco

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle.

I like being the people's champion when it comes to dining. — Adam Richman

My interests started about in science and in mathematics; I always thought I was going to be a mathematician. — David Chalmers

Athletes have to be confident and I am thinking like that. — Haile Gebrselassie

Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things. — Friedrich Nietzsche

It is time to understand the environment for what it is: the national security issue of the early twenty-first century. — Robert D. Kaplan

While it is positive for young black males and females to learn discipline and self-responsibility, those attitudes, values, and habits of being can be taught with pedagogical strategies that are liberatory, that do not rely on coercive control and punishment to reinforce positive behavior. — Bell Hooks

It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realize his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realize their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realized, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting point for an ideal that is other than itself. This is why music is the perfect type of art. Music can never reveal its ultimate secret. — Oscar Wilde

The age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system. — Thomas Paine

The incarnation is God's own act of identification with the broken, the poor, with sinful humanity. — Thomas C. Oden

She was already fierce. She required none of this nonsense, and if she'd carried a man's strength and her father's horsewhip these villains would as one be on their knees. — Gordon Dahlquist

I used to say that pot took away from my rent, and now it pays it. — Justin Kirk