Revisionists Documentary Quotes & Sayings

When I was a young man, I understood that poetry was two things - it was difficult to understand, but you could understand that the poet was miserable. So for a while there, I wrote poems that were hard to understand, even by me, but gave off whiffs of misery. — Billy Collins

One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I admired what my students were writing, but I think their improvement doesn't directly result from me but from being in a class, being with each other. — Thom Gunn

As much as I love period movies and especially more swashbuckling movies, I think that sometimes they tend to be, umm ... it's hard for the audience to relate to them. — Brian Helgeland

You don't become a success when you get your diploma, you became a success when you decided to go to college when you get your diploma you get the rewards of success. — John C. Maxwell

The living mourn the dead for a time but they forget about them as days pass. The living are so selfish, so spoilt, so taken with the very act of living that they don't remember long. — Natsuo Kirino

When are we going to stop labeling everyone? How many times have I been referred to as 'out gay actor?' Do we say, 'out heterosexual actor' when we refer to Tom Hanks? — Bryan Batt