Conformist Movie Quotes

#1. Take freedom away, and they give me a life of dreaming.

Pierce Brown

#2. Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.

Earl Wilson

#3. When I am dead, let it be said of me: he belonged to no school, to no church, to no institution, to no academy, and least of all, to any regime except the regime of liberty.

Gustave Courbet

#4. Because the essence of creativity is fucking around; art is that which is done for the hell of it.

Tim Kreider

#5. Writing is hard. That's why so few people stick to it and actually finish things. And why you have a right to be immensely proud when you finish something.
[There Is No Such Thing as Writers' Block: Blog post, October 7, 2001]

Andy Ihnatko

#6. ... but her Letters were always unsatisfactory, and though she did not openly avow her feelings, yet every line proved her to be Unhappy.

Jane Austen

#7. Burning in a hot tunnel of dismay, my humiliation complete as I shake without reason and stumble over words and have nothing to say about my 'illness' which anyway amounts only to knowing that there's no point in anything because I'm going to die.

Sarah Kane

#8. There's so much distance between the fundamental rules and the final phenomenon, that it's almost unbelievable that the final variety of phenomenon can come from such a steady operation of such simple rules.

Richard P. Feynman

#9. Do you want romantic? I can try. I'm more of a see-it, want-it, go-for-it type of guy, and I did: see you, want you, go for you. Her

Linda Howard

#10. Why don't more people set goals? In general, psychologists point to seven reasons: They have not yet accepted personal responsibility for their lives. Many

Ken Dychtwald

#11. You have not known very many men."
"I have no wish to know any others. I love this one.

Shelly Thacker

#12. You of all people, who seem to know things about me before I myself do. You know this is right.

Jessica Brockmole

#13. You find us, Copperfield,' said Mr Micawber, with one eye on Traddles, 'at present established, on what may be designated as a small and unassuming scale; but, you are aware that I have, in the course of my career, surmounted difficulties, and conquered obstacles.

Charles Dickens

#14. We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

#15. In all religions, as in all legal systems. people find ways to skirt the rules. We obey the letter of the law without honoring its spirit, and then reassure ourselves of our righteousness.

Sy Montgomery