Stormlike Reviews Quotes & Sayings

It's great to be in a film that's able to have people really want to become socially conscious, to walk out of the theatre and want to do something. — Don Cheadle

The primary function of poetry, as of all the arts, is to make us more aware of ourselves and the world around us. I do not know if such increased awareness makes us more moral or more efficient. I hope not. I think it makes us more human, and I am quite certain it makes us more difficult to deceive. — W. H. Auden

I think I might die if I don't kiss you right now. A real-life kiss. — Mari Mancusi

For his lunch break, Alex decided to sit outside for a smoke. There was no break room to speak of, just a backdoor that led to a neglected parking lot and an old payphone. There was an upturned crate by the door used to hold the door open or to sit on if one so desired. But Alex couldn't sit down, even though he had been standing for the past four hours, his anxious mind kept his feet moving.
He paced back and forth, smoking his cigarette with the speed of an anxious drug addict. The cool but faint breeze pushed the smoke away from him and dissipated it into nothing. He still felt angry about the run-in with Gonzalez. It had consistently poked at him like a curious sadist with a pointed stick ever since he walked away from the door slammed in his face. — J.C. Joranco

If people don't read, that's their choice; a lifelong book habit may itself be some sort of affliction. — Penelope Lively

Your mockers will only celebrate with you when you have gone far beyound them. — Osunsakin Adewale

The present urgency is to begin thinking within the context of the whole planet, the integral earth community with all its human and other-than-human components. — Thomas Berry

I mean, MTV or the mainstream media can tell you one thing, but when there are 40,000 people in front of you, who cares about all that? — Sebastian Bach

I never could stand being forced to do something I didn't want to do at a time I didn't want to do it. Whenever I was able to do something I liked to do, though, when I wanted to do it, and the way I wanted to do it, I'd give it everything I had. — Haruki Murakami

And yet we cannot define as skillful killing one's fellow citizens, betraying one's friends, and showing no loyalty, mercy, or moral obligation. These means can lead to power, but not glory. — Niccolo Machiavelli

You can spend forty years teaching people to be awake to the fact of the mystery and then some fellow with no more theological sense than a jackrabbit gets himself a radio ministry and all your work is forgotten. — Marilynne Robinson

The other work we started in 1992, it is called Over the River, Project for the Arkansas River in the state of Colorado, we haven't got the permit yet. And, we are working at both of those, trying to get the permit. Therefore, we do not know which one will be realized next. — Christo

Boys have to wear brown, grey and blue and girls have to wear the beautiful colours. — Claire King

Why do we resist the mystery that change brings? When we get too rigid and inflexible, rigor mortis of the soul sets in. For proof of this, we need look no further than to those who choose to stay in a relationship or job long after the soul, or life force, that originally brought it passion and joy has vacated the premises. — Dennis Merritt Jones

I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school. — Francis Ford Coppola