Plaisante Quotes & Sayings

- but then I wonder what Latitude or Longitude I've got to? — Lewis Carroll

When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in our imagination. The sequence of pictures plays directly on our feelings. Music works in the same fashion; I would say that there is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect. And film is mainly rhythm; it is inhalation and exhalation in continuous sequence. — Ingmar Bergman

In the past few years I've assigned books to be read before a student attends one of my weeklong seminars. I have been astonished by how few people
people who supposedly want to write
read books, and if they read them, how little they examine them. — Natalie Goldberg

To speak of this subject you must ... explain the nature of the resistance of the air, in the second the anatomy of the bird and its wings, in the third the method of working the wings in their various movements, in the fourth the power of the wings and the tail when the wings are not being moved and when the wind is favourable to serve as guide in various movements. — Leonardo Da Vinci

I don't have to put on shoulder pads and run out there and let somebody hit on me a little bit. — Emmitt Smith

Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness. — Robert A. Heinlein

Hope is the dream of a waking man — Aristotle.

Life is what happens to us when we are preparing for the journey. — Debasish Mridha

When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker. — Patrice Leconte

A piece of writing is a trap," he said cheerily, "and the best kind. A book, you see, is the only kind of trap that keeps its captive - which is knowledge - alive forever. — Tad Williams

If you order a milkshake at a diner and they mix dog poop into it, you probably wouldn't drink it. If you go into a town with pollution, you may survive and have a good visit, but you risk being poisoned. — Richard Rossi

I was the first to win a major with a belly putter, and I've spent hours practicing that way, so I hope they don't ban anchoring. — Keegan Bradley

I made an important decision, which was to pursue happiness. Rather than accept unhappiness. That's why I'm here, and it's great. I'm in a very good place in my life. — Laura Marling

Respect my trendsetting abilities. Once that happens, everyone wins. — Kanye West

One of the reasons why this country undertook military action in Iraq was that there are quite a few problems here, and perhaps attention needed to be deflected from those problems. It sometimes seems that the U.S. economy works successfully only if it gets a stimulus from the defense industry. So perhaps in addition to showing the power and the might of the United States internationally, another reason was to help the defense industry and to help the U.S. economy recover. — Mikhail Gorbachev