Recreio Escolar Quotes & Sayings

As a viewer, that's work I respond to - work that I know is singular in some way. If I'm being challenged by something on screen, if I don't quite know why it's happening, I want to know I can do the work of pulling it apart and that there'll be something satisfactory about it. If the architecture is sound, you can be lyrical in execution. — Shane Carruth

Opera was an enormous part of my childhood. My parents were both opera buffs, and they met in the box seat of an opera performance. And I also was a boy soprano, so before puberty hit, I was onstage playing a wide variety of orphans and urchins in all sorts of operas, and the sheer melodrama of their stories was just always appealing to me. — Daniel Handler

For the record, I am not an admitted homosexual, nor am I a homosexual, though I do know the lyrics to every show tune ever written, which might perhaps account for the confusion. — John Podhoretz

The Brigadier had no wish to shake hands with the improbable young man in the ridiculous frock-coat. — Peter Grimwade

... People don't live in the greater scheme of things, they live in the here and now, — Barbara Katz Rothman

Acquaintance; companion;
One dear brilliant woman;
The best-endowed, the elect,
All by their youth undone,
All, all, by that inhuman
Bitter glory wrecked. — William Butler Yeats

It turns out our brain is sensitive, maybe too sensitive, to motion. It's a survival mechanism. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

... But she sees that his mouth sucks on his mischievousness as one might savor a hard candy. — Jennie Fields

It was not surprising that after the war Dostoevsky was linked to Kierkegaard as a prophet of social resignation. — Martin Jay

I'm such a copycat."I want to try and do this like the Donovan song 'Changes'," or "I want to do this bit from Van Morrison." I don't know how else to illustrate something, because I'm not a super-great musician. In that way, I'm more like the producer. — Eleanor Friedberger

There was a little corner of his mind that was still his own, and light came through it, as though a chink in the dark: light out of the past. It was actually pleasant, I think, to hear a kindly voice agin, bringing up memories of wind, and trees, and sun on the grass, and such forgotten things. — J.R.R. Tolkien

India's linguistic diversity surprises many Westerners, but there are nearly thirty languages in India with at least a million native speakers. There are more native speakers of Tamil on our planet than of Italian. Likewise, more people speak Punjabi than German, Marathi than French, and Bengali than Russian. There are more Telugu speakers than Czech, Dutch, Danish, Finnish, Greek, Slovak, and Swedish speakers combined. — Bob Harris

'I want to touch people but if I touch them in real life they'll slap me.' That's what writing isit's a gross person getting a hug. — Dan Harmon