Vertov Film Quotes & Sayings

You can learn more from failure than success. In failure you're forced to find out what part did not work. But in success you can believe everything you did was great, when in fact some parts may not have worked at all. Failure forces you to face reality. — Fred Brooks

The film drama is the opium of the people ... down with bourgeois fairy-tale scenarios ... long live life as it is! — Dziga Vertov

Keep your tax-cutting, greedy hands off our medicare — Edward Kennedy

I've always said, 'I am a selector, I am not defector' - the first few phrases in English I learned. I said I hate 'defector'; something defective about the people. It's a bad word. — Mikhail Baryshnikov

I don't think any child could see her father beginning to love someone else and not feel jealousy. — Kristin Cashore

We sucked in atheism with our canned milk. — Joy Davidman

All I am really promoting in the books is the Golden Rule, which I hope everybody knows to be "do as you would be done by." It has one or 2 flaws, but it is a good soundbite. Evil starts when you treat other people as things. There are perhaps worse crimes, but they begin when you treat other people as things. — Terry Pratchett

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. — J.M. Barrie

Intricately plotted, beautifully paced, The Music of the Spheres is an elegant historical novel rich in detail, at times Dickensian in its description of London. Elizabeth Redfern has made an exciting debut. — Martha Grimes

Kino-Eye uses every possible means in montage, comparing and linking all points of the universe in any temporal order, breaking, when necessary, all the laws and conventions of film construction. — Dziga Vertov

I read in your Word that the very best kind of pleasure is delighting in doing what you want. Your way is right and good and it brings life. You are pleased when I follow it, because you want the best for me. — Amy E. Mason