Timesort Quotes & Sayings

Absolution is not the same as understanding. — Justin Cronin

I think being a movie star is about whether an audience can watch you and care about you. — Tom Sizemore

To learn is to change how you think. — Michael Merzenich

How condescending, how splendidly democratic of Sir Lancelot, to laugh, as if he were an ordinary man! Perhaps he eats and drinks as well, or even sleeps at night. — T.H. White

When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith. — Junius

Nothing that is expressed is obscene. What is obscene is what is hidden. — Nagisa Oshima

It's very hard to be black in this country and hate America. It's really hard to live like that. I would actually argue it's impossible to fully see yourself. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

The great challenge to the modern period, and its peculiar danger, has been that in it man for the first time confronted man without the protection of differing circumstances and conditions. And it has been precisely this new concept of equality that has made modern race relations so difficult, for there we deal with natural differences which by no possible and conceivable change of conditions can become less conspicuous. It is because equality demands that I recognize each and every individual as my equal, that the conflicts between different groups, which for reasons of their own are reluctant to grant each other this basic equality, take on such terribly cruel forms. — Hannah Arendt

I wish I could read what she's written there. Instead, I pretend the letters are stars. The words, constellations. — Isaac Marion

I saw that Roy was not inclined to be amused. I was not annoyed, for I am quite used to people not being amused at my jokes. I often think that the purest type of the artist is the humorist who laughs alone at his own jests. — W. Somerset Maugham

If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear. — Anna Deavere Smith

As an old-time small-town merchant, I can tell you that nobody has more love for the heyday of the smalltown retailing era than I do. That's one of the reasons we chose to put our little Wal-Mart museum on the square in Bentonville. It's in the old Walton's Five and Dime building, and it tries to capture a little bit of the old dime store feel. But I can also tell you this: if we had gotten smug about our early success, and said, "Well, we're the best merchant in town," and just kept doing everything exactly the way we were doing it, somebody else would have come along and given our customers what they wanted, and we would be out of business today. — Sam Walton

There is no condition of life in which we cannot abide in Jesus. We have to learn to abide in Him wherever we are placed. — Oswald Chambers

My grandfather can barely even hear, and Chevy Chase makes a face, and he laughs. — Gillian Jacobs

I'm a movement Nazi. It used to be my way before. Now, in the last three projects. I found a way to let the actors find their comfort and still find the precision in the show. It's a change in me. — Guillermo Del Toro