Antonioni Films Quotes

#1. As much as I love Antonioni films, I love the Three Stooges.

Joe Carnahan

#2. College stirred in her a certain contempt for virtues like kindness and persistence. She would have appeared to have been a kind and persistent person herself, but a steady diet of Antonioni films and an introductory course on existentialism had awakened her to the fact that she wanted more.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#3. Tell the truth and read story books;it will take you to the magical moment in a glory night.

H.G.Wells

#4. Life's incredibly boring. I don't say that in an effort to seem vaguely amusing but the secret of life is that there's no secret, it's just exceedingly boring.

Morrissey

#5. We're novices. We have friends now who are part of the freshman class who in some cases have run for Congress two and three times before they won their seat.

Max Burns

#6. There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.

Barack Obama

#7. All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.

Michelangelo Antonioni

#8. She didn't like weepy films. She liked to
quote D. H. Lawrence : "Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself
of feelings you haven't really got." Hers were grim European films
- Antonioni, Bertolucci, Bergman - films where everybody
died or wished they had.

Janet Fitch

#9. Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.

Venus Williams

#10. You get one pass at life. That's all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Christ.

John Piper

#11. Landmines are different from other conventional weapons. When a war is over, the landmines stay in the ground and continue to kill - for decades.

Jody Williams

#12. It was still white, and it still glowed under the moon, and the cobbles were still as rounded as old skulls, and the leaves still looked like splashes of blood across the stones, but Rhea felt better. She was still going somewhere terrible, but she had a hedgehog, dammit.

T. Kingfisher

#13. We have too much stuff inside and it swells us, breaks us.

Elena Ferrante

#14. Never play anything the same way twice.

Louis Armstrong

#15. Equity knows no difference of sex. In its vocabulary the word man must be understood in a generic, and not in a specific sense.

Herbert Spencer

#16. Who are you when you are no longer who you are? What do you do with a self that is no longer your self? If you don't know who you are, how do you go on living? If you cannot live as yourself, who and what is it that you are living for?

Sally Brampton

#17. If you are not in charge of your life, who is?

Val Edward Simone

#18. The films I liked were European films-Fellini, Antonioni, Truffaut.

Tobe Hooper

#19. What happens to the spiritual life of a young girl who is made to understand, consciously or subconsciously, that she has no place in the spiritual domain except as a consumer of someone else's God?

Joan D. Chittister

#20. Christianity is about the heart, and the Bible says that we cannot get to heaven on our own good works. No matter how good we are, we cannot be good enough, because God is perfect, and we're always going to be less than perfect.

Joyce Meyer

#21. My work is like digging, it's archaeological research among the arid materials of our times. That's how I understand my first films, and that's what I'm still doing ...

Michelangelo Antonioni