Wienecke Quotes & Sayings

Just as we would not traditionally assume that someone is literate if they can read but not write, we should not assume that someone possesses media literacy if they can consume but not express themselves — Henry Jenkins

The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most. — Michel De Montaigne

The greatest realities are physical and economic, all the subtleties of life come afterward. — Joyce Carol Oates

Irreverence is a way of playing hooky and remaining present at the same time. — Mary Ruefle

Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale — Bertrand Russell

A film fable so structured that all alchemical searchings are clearly filmwise (gold being discovered cinematically in each sequence ot mixed black-and-white and color) so that when the drama-discovery is actually made, it acts as a deliberate anti-climax of aesthetic perfection. — Stan Brakhage

But if God had wanted us to think with just our wombs, why did He give us a brain? — Clare Boothe Luce

Words are doctors for the diseased temper. — Aeschylus