Rossellini Roberto Quotes & Sayings

Lacey, you don't understand." He felt weightless, benumbed. He had nothing to fight with, not even a blade. "We're totally unarmed. I've seen what he can do." "There are weapons more powerful than guns and knives," the woman replied. Her face held no fear, only a sense of purpose. "It is time for you to see it." "See what?" "What you came to find," said Lacey. "The Passage. — Justin Cronin

Amen is not the end of a prayer, it just gets us ready to go to the next level. — Gary Busey

I try to capture reality, nothing else. — Roberto Rossellini

Don't get married to an actress because they're also actresses in bed. — Roberto Rossellini

Then Cassie told her story. The feeling was like gathering up everything she's ever done or felt or known up to that moment and tying it into a ball and pitching it with all her might as far away as she could, and then watching to see what would happen next, what would roll back to her, what would have gotten left behind. — Beth Neff

Noble acts and momentous events happen in the same way and produce the same impression as the ordinary facts. — Roberto Rossellini

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism. — Roberto Rossellini

You can know an animal - or a person, for that matter - in an instant, really, though your understanding can go on unfolding for years. — Mark Doty

Well, Drew. Makes you feel any better. There's one thing that Kelly and this title have in common. They'll never be seen with you. — Edge

No woman is made for a certain man, and no man is made for a certain woman. By the right partner I mean that if you have understood a few relationships, if you have been in a few relationships, you will understand which things create miserable situations between you and which situations create a loving, peaceful, happy life. — Osho

The law requires a paper towel ad to be scrupulously honest, but allows political candidates to lie without reproach. What's wrong with this picture? — Jef I. Richards

The dreams of human beings are dark, heavy and morbid and simplistic and boring. The dreams of immortality are endless and shining, they shimmer, they glow. — Frederick Lenz

The camera's a ballpoint pen, an imbecile; it's not worth anything if you don't have anything to say. — Roberto Rossellini

Ever since ROME, OPEN CITY, I have maintained a conscious, determined endeavor to try to understand the world in which I live, in a spirit of humility and respect for the facts and for history. What as the meaning of ROME, OPEN CITY? We were emerging from the tragedy of the war. We had all taken part in it, for we were all its victims. I sought only to picture the essence of things. I had absolutely no interest in telling a romanticized tale along the usual lives of film drama. The actual facts were each more dramatic than any screen cliche. — Roberto Rossellini

Beauty was a weapon as well, one Viola enjoyed wielding. — Katherine McIntyre

Rapport equals trust plus comfort. — Neil Strauss

Obama is not a brown-skinned anti-war socialist who gives away free healthcare. You're thinking of Jesus. — John Fugelsang

What is paradise, but, a garden, an orchard of trees and herbs, full of pleasure and nothing there but delights. — William Lawson

I think I sent one [book] to Brian Eno. I don't know how I got to know his address, but I sent one to him. He called me up and he said, "I really like the book, and I'm starting a new label, would you liked to do something?" It was a tricky situation for me, because I've always had this thing in my life of a tension between collaboration, which was extremely important to me, and then being alone. Make of that what you will! — David Toop