Thomas Barbey Quotes & Sayings

When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary. — William Safire

I think film, to me, as a director, is about telling a story. — Donnie Yen

Best friends one, and now we have almost nothing to say to each other. It was interesting, how he had joined those guys and I just stayed on my own. I didn't like it or dislike it. It was just funny that things had turned out that way. — Markus Zusak

Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner. — James F. Cooper

Humans think they are free, conscious beings, when in truth they are deluded animals. At the same time they never cease trying to escape from what they imagine themselves to be. Their religions are attempts to be rid of a freedom they have never possessed. In the twentieth century, the utopias of Right and Left served the same function. Today, when politics is unconvincing even as entertainment, science has taken on the role of mankind's deliverer. — John N. Gray

The law of the innermost form of the essay is heresy — Theodor Adorno

I think we need politicians; we need people who want to serve. — Iain Banks

For me, the problem of time is linked up with that of death, with the thought that we inevitably draw closer and closer to it, with the horror of decay. — Simone De Beauvoir

If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live. — James A. Baldwin