Ruttmann Opus Quotes & Sayings

Calcutta has still not recovered from history: people mourn the past, and abhor it deeply. — Amit Chaudhuri

When I'm not working I try to stay out of the public eye as much as possible. — Donna Summer

I believe in rooting poems in actual places, even if you move into some other extraordinary realm. — Edward Hirsch

Underneath the forms of fiction and poetry, you can bet your ass the ground comes from someone's actual life experience. — Lidia Yuknavitch

To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty. — Mahatma Gandhi

Under the First Amendment there is no such thing as a false idea. However pernicious an opinion may seem, we depend for its correction not on the conscience of judges and juries but on the competition of other ideas. — Lewis F. Powell Jr.

Sometimes, I feel like I view life through a lens. It's like being part of a movie. Watching not participating. — Tina J. Richardson

Whatever happened to Search and Discovery in the arts of today? Artists must behave like archaeologists if the guts of visionary filmmaking can happen. They will have to return to the depths of the collective unknown to find out what we're all about. From that universal dream our most individual and forceful voices can emerge. — E.E. Halleran

The law in the United States, in every jurisdiction until about 1876, was that if a factory put smoke into the air, even one day a year, and it got onto a neighbor's property, the neighbor had the right to enjoin to close down the factory, and the courts had no choice but to do that. — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.