Un Chien Andalou Quotes & Sayings

How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations to the public weal! How few have souls capable of
so noble an undertaking! — Abigail Adams

In this world, time has three dimensions, like space. Just as an object may move in three perpendicular directions, corresponding to horizontal, vertical, and longitudinal, so an object may participate in three perpendicular futures. Each future moves in a different direction of time. Each future is real. At every point of decision, the world splits into three worlds, each with the same people, but different fates for those people. In time, there are an infinity of worlds. — Alan Lightman

It's not that people don't know when they'll die. It's that they don't seem to know they'll die. — Raheel Farooq

Gnostic politics is self-defeating in so far as its disregard for the structure of reality leads to continuous warfare. — Eric Voegelin

We picked some pea pods, opened them and ate the peas inside. Peas baffled me. I could not understand why grown-ups would take things that tasted so good when they were freshly-picked and raw, and put them in tin cans, and make them revolting. — Neil Gaiman

You can look at the sun all day unaffected if you are blind. — Matshona Dhliwayo

There's music in the sighing of a reed;
There's music in the gushing of a rill;
There's music in all things, if men had ears;
The earth is but the music of the spheres. — George Gordon Byron

Perfectionism: the need to be right instead of being right. — Ira Glass

The cross means there is no shipwreck without hope; there is no dark without dawn; nor storm without haven. — Pope John Paul II

Kids talk to me and say they want to do musicals again because they've studied the tapes of the old films. We didn't have that. We thought once we had made it, even on film, it was gone except for the archives. — Gene Kelly

What's the point of being a hero when everyone thinks you're a villain? — Ellen Hopkins

Life is a plant that grows out of death. — Henry Ward Beecher

I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask,
Mother, what was war? — Eve Merriam