Anglophone Quotes

#1. Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community.

Marilyn Hacker

#2. I think it's a great pity in the Anglophone world that we conflate cinema verite and Direct Cinema; they're, in fact, ontological opposites. In Direct Cinema, we create a fictional reality with characters and pretend we're not that.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#3. When our lips parted, he sighed. "I love those eyes, angel. When they look at me, I feel like anything is possible.

Bijou Hunter

#4. I feel like a tree. A tree doesn't feel a duty to start doing something about the earth from which it comes. A tree just has to bear fruit, and leaves and blossoms. It doesn't feel grateful to the earth.

Abbas Kiarostami

#5. I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.

Antonia Fraser

#6. Quite simply, when we deny our children nature, we deny them beauty.

Richard Louv

#7. Travel is seeking the lost paradise. It is the supreme illusion of love.

Anais Nin

#8. If anybody ever needs to find me, I'm in the Glendale Whole Foods. I think it's the greatest Whole Foods on the planet. There are a bunch around the country, but this one seems like it has everything. Plus, everyone is super cool, the flow is fantastic, and it's in my hood.

Theo Rossi

#9. A diagnosis . . . should not be used to close doors, but rather to open them wider, by making modifications in programs to accommodate special needs, by adding to the understanding that teachers, social workers, lawyers and judges have for affected individuals.

Bonnie Buxton

#10. Paris strikes the vulgar part of us infinitely the most, but to a thinking mind London is incomparably the most delightful subject for contemplation.

Samuel Rogers

#11. People are scared. People are generally xenophobic - they're scared of what's different. If you're ignorant as well as scared, then you might end up hating something that you're scared of.

Kate Nash

#12. Those old stories of visions and dreams guiding men have their truth; we are saved by making the future present to ourselves.

George Eliot

#13. When you're in Hollywood and you're a comedian, everybody wants you to do other things. All right, you're a stand-up comedian, can you write us a script? That's not fair. That's like if I worked hard to become a cook, and I'm a really good cook, they'd say, "OK, you're a cook. Can you farm?"

Mitch Hedberg

#14. If you want to learn how to be happy, you have to know what is sadness first.

Etgar Keret

#15. It's by the king's decree," the man said. "The strong have always taken from the weak,

George R R Martin

#16. The thoughts you think and the actions you take in the first ten minutes after you wake up have a very marked effect on the rest of your day.

Robin S. Sharma

#17. Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Albert Einstein