Piranesi Prisons Quotes & Sayings

The horror of the Hitler Experience was not that he perpetrated it on the human race, but that the human race allowed him to. The astonishment is not only that a Hitler came along, but also that so many others went along. — Neale Donald Walsch

The fantastic in literature doesn't exist as a challenge to what is probable, but only there where it can be increased to a challenge of reason itself: the fantastic in literature consists, when all has been said, essentially in showing the world as opaque, as inaccessible to reason on principle. This happens when Piranesi in his imagined prisons depicts a world peopled by other beings than those for which it was created. ("On the Fantastic in Literature") — Lars Gustafsson

When anyone thinks a woman who serves "gives 'cause that's what mothers or real women do," they deny her full humanity and thus fail to see the generosity inherent in her acts. — Bell Hooks

Have an intrinsic sense of direction of life. Have a goal-oriented conviction and trust. — Debasish Mridha

For a good ten minutes or so we stand there with the flashlight burning the grave with light. The whole time, I'm trying to guess where and exactly how he died and, more to the point, realizing that poor old Milla's been without him for sixty-years. I can tell. No other man has entered her life. Not the way her Jimmy did. She's been waiting sixty years for Jimmy to come back. And now he has. — Markus Zusak

It took me a while to feel comfortable in front of the camera and so I just needed to do it a lot. — Jeremy Sisto

Nobody's more mindful of the sacrifices of our troops than those of us that command them. — John Abizaid

You think your friends have good taste in fashion, until they ask you to wear an ugly bridesmaid dress! — Wendi McLendon-Covey

I'm a perfectionist. — Kristi Yamaguchi