Antonius Block Quotes

#1. Death: When next we meet, the hour will strike for you and your friends.
Antonius Block: And will you reveal your secrets?
Death: I have no secrets.
Antonius Block: So do you know nothing?
Death: I am unknowing.

Ingmar Bergman

#2. Death: Do you never stop questioning?
Antonius Block: No. I never stop.

Ingmar Bergman

#3. It is very difficult to spend "federal (the taxpayers') dollars" so that the intended result is achieved.

Donald Rumsfeld

#4. Faraday has the Cage, Tesla has the Coil and Magee has the Sandwich!

Steven Magee

#5. I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.

Albert Einstein

#6. The sea of pleasures may drown its owner and the swimmer fears to open his eyes under the water.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

#7. Poetry
...
... a place for the genuine,
Hands that can grasp, eyes
that can dilate, hair that can rise

Marianne Moore

#8. It's terrifying when you're staring the person you know you want most in the world dead in the eyes, and knowing that they belong to you unequivocally.

L. H. Cosway

#9. I am a painter with letters. I want to restore everything, mix everything up and say everything.

Jean-Luc Godard

#10. Like when I had long hair, you kind of got male attention from everything. But when you had short hair, it was a different kind of man that was attracted to you or I found coming up.

Ashley Scott

#11. The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

C. Northcote Parkinson

#12. We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality. When you understand this, you see that you are nothing, and being nothing, you are everything. That is all.

Gautama Buddha