Suro Nipa Quotes & Sayings

The problem with making movies is that you have to devote so much of your life to fawning and flattering the men in suits, whereas that doesn't happen in books. You just go and write, and then the book comes out. — Richard Flanagan

I think my movies aren't sentimental. I think my movies are funny and sad and realistic. Not realistic in the sense that they're documentaries, but realistic in the sense that they're not idealistic, they're not optimistic, not pessimistic, and not propagandistic. They're an analysis of a situation. I call it as I see it, so to speak. — Frederick Wiseman

They are dazzled by all the money that they are being offered. That is what money does, Mma Ramotswe - you must have seen that. Sometime we need to look the other way when people put money in front of our noses. We have to look at the other things we can see so the money doesn't hide them. — Alexander McCall Smith

More and more I'm aware that the permutations are not unlimited. — Russell Hoban

I don't want to hurt anybody or be offensive. But I don't want to not be me. — Melanie Chisholm

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of Decency. — Theodore Roosevelt

Of all preaching in the world, (that speaks not stark lies,) I hate that preaching which tendeth to make the hearers laugh, or to move their mind with tickling levity, and affect them as stage-players use to do, instead of affecting them with a holy reverence of the name of God. — Richard Baxter

There remains, however, the hope, at least in Russia, that, as sometimes happens in history, the memory of lost alternatives will one day inspire efforts to regain them. — Stephen Cohen

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable. — Frank Lloyd Wright