Wim Wenders Faraway So Close Quotes & Sayings

A child rightly trained may be a world-wide blessing, with an influence reaching onward to eternal years. But a neglected or misdirected directed child may live to blight and blast mankind, and leave influences of evil which shall roll on in increasing volume till they plunge into the gulf of eternal perdition. — George Muller

The very nature of interactions is bound to make it unpredictable. — Carl Von Clausewitz

Given her deafness, the auditory part of the brain, deprived of its usual input, had started to generate a spontaneous activity of its own, and this took the form of musical hallucinations, mostly musical memories from her earlier life. The brain needed to stay incessantly active, and if it was not getting its usual stimulation ... , it would create its own stimulation in the form of hallucinations. — Oliver Sacks

We can not improve humanity if everyone is conforming to society's standards. Set your own standard, and find out for yourself. — Mary Sage Nguyen

A camera exposes more than just an image. It also exposes the photographer. — Steve Coleman

One thing I've found that eases the pain, Cody said, 'is to remember that we are all connected, to those we know and those we don't know. — Jeri Smith-Ready

That's what I like about [smoking] ... taking a drag off of death, Mmm! Gives me a sense of controlling my own destiny. What power! What exhilaration! Want a drag? — Beth Henley

Architecture is art. I don't think you should say that too much, but it is art. I mean, architecture is many, many things. Architecture is science, is technology, is geography, is typography, is anthropology, is sociology, is art, is history. You know all this comes together. Architecture is a kind of bouillabaisse, an incredible bouillabaisse. And, by the way, architecture is also a very polluted art in the sense that it's polluted by life, and by the complexity of things. — Renzo Piano

Generally speaking, I think it is unbecoming to act as a national hero, wave hands and so on. — Vitaly Scherbo

This dude could read Pat the Bunnyand make it terrifying. — Diana Rowland

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him. — Arthur Schopenhauer