Rigueur Intellectuelle Quotes & Sayings

Senselessly pontificating about things does not get anything done, doing something about it does. — Murad S. Shah

When I'm able to bring together the two worlds that I love so much - film and TV - is a documentary feature, it's nirvana! — Dori Berinstein

I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing. — Dan Castellaneta

I will love you like no other for I have died a thousand tiny deaths and everytime I died I thought of you. — Joseph Michael Linsner

I have all my life been on my guard against the information conveyed by the sense of hearing
it being one of my earliest observations, the universal inclination of humankind is to be led by the ears, and I am sometimes apt to imagine that they are given to men as they are to pitchers, purposely that they may be carried about by them. — Mary Wortley Montagu

It's much easier to wear your pain on the outside ... — E.L. James

I voted for the black guy, and what we got was the white guy — Michael Moore

If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside. — Robert Cringely

We have to think of a question that we wouldn't otherwise want to answer.'
He stood over the pot, looking down at the leaves. 'Something like, Who do you fancy?'
'That might work,' I said, even though it was the last question I wanted to answer. But it was impossible, suddenly, to tell a lie.
Benjamin took a deep sniff over the steam and turned to me. 'All right,' he said. 'So who do you fancy?'
I hesitated. 'Fancy means like, right?' I said stalling.
'Of course.'
I gritted my teeth against the answer coming out. but I couldn't stop myself. 'You,' I said helplessly. — Maile Meloy

In an action film you act in the action. If it's a dramatic film you act in the drama. — Jean-Claude Van Damme

You shouldn't keep other people's phallic symbols on the mantelpiece. — Fay Weldon

Creation and destruction are one, to the eyes who can see beauty.
And the greatest praise to India is this: not only are her people beautiful; not only are her daily life and cult beautiful; but, in the midst of the utilitarian, humanitarian, dogmatic world of the present day, she keeps on proclaiming the outstanding value of Beauty for the sake of Beauty, through her very conception of Godhead, of religion and of life. — Savitri Devi