Throwaways Movie Quotes & Sayings

I think excessive rationality can be very dangerous. Certainly the kind of rationality we've seen in the last hundred years, and still see on a daily basis when Madeleine Albright says that it's all right, we have to live with the idea of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children dying because it contains Saddam Hussein. — Pankaj Mishra

A cough is the basic sign of inattention. Musicians never, in my experience, cough when playing in public. — Charles Rosen

You can't choose your potential, but you can choose to fulfill it. — Theodore Roosevelt

Discovery is always a rape of the natural world. Always. — Michael Crichton

The first is the Credo quia absurdum of the early Father. It would imply that religious doctrines are outside reason's jurisdiction; they stand above reason. Their truth must be inwardly felt: one does not need to comprehend them. — Sigmund Freud

There have always been two ways to be rich: by accumulating vast sums or by needing very little. — Ethan Hawke

Me: just don't ask about his forty-three ex-boyfriends, okay? or ask him about why he's carrying around an axe.
mom: ...
me: i'm kidding about the axe part. — David Levithan

Anger keeps us down and hinders from moving forward. — E'yen A. Gardner

've had good friends who got married after they've been together for years and they've said that it was the "next step" for them. Or, they've said, "You just can't bail out anymore." And I've wondered, What made you think you could just bail out before [the wedding]? You don't invest that kind of time and energy with somebody and then just go, "All right, see you later." — Charlize Theron

The imagination is both interpretative and creative in nature. — Napoleon Hill

The Devill is not alwaies at one doore. — George Herbert

I have been trying, for some time now, to find dignity in my loneliness. I have been finding this hard to do. 72. — Maggie Nelson

I think people place limitations on each other and on ourselves. There is a great fear of expressing ourselves, of making creativity happen. — Yoko Ono