Emir Quotes

#1. You are saddened by love's importance in the emir's life?"
He paused. "I am frustrated by its importance in all our lives.

Renee Ahdieh

#2. Now, about your timetable. It may spread out a little more than you thought. They want me to visit the palace and see it for myself. We're to go in the Emir's yacht, leaving tonight.

Susan Leona Fisher

#3. When, like an Emir of tyrannic power,
Sirius appears, and on the horizon black
Bids countless stars pursue their mighty track.

Victor Hugo

#4. T. Wiggett Jones: It should be illegal ... to feel this rotten ... without a variety of loathsome memories to cherish.
Wild Wild West (TV) First Season: Night of the Grand Emir

Michael Garrison

#5. Scraps
The scraps from the meal of the Emir are larger than the gifts of halwa from the merchant.

Timur Fazil

Idries Shah

#6. If we were united and strong, we'd elect our own emir (leader) and give allegiance to him ... Take my word, if 6-8 million Muslims unite in America, the country will come to us.

Siraj Wahhaj

#7. what you have to do, and I'm so fucking proud of you. Not many people who make that choice. And Emir, it's the right one.

Mika Tarkin

#8. The most difficult part of making movies is to keep making them. Maybe, you could make the biggest hit in the world, but then the big problem is what to do next and how to maintain devoted to a certain instinct that I have about films.

Emir Kusturica

#9. Yugoslavia was a kind of superpower. Great movies. Beautiful novels. Great rock-and-roll. We became a superpower in basketball. The problem is that people needed to identify more strongly with it after Tito and his awful, tricky way of leading the country.

Emir Kusturica

#10. My purpose is to make a movie to make you warm. To give you some heat. Now, this rational world has become a place where only what is cool is good. Do you cut the movie on the basis of the beat of modernity or the basis of the beat of your own heart?

Emir Kusturica

#11. You can only manage to convince a person to admit to being wrong, not ignorant, arrogant, or stupid.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#12. I put my ideas into practice. That may be the reason people hate me.

Emir Kusturica

#13. My father was an atheist and he always described himself as a Serb. OK, maybe we were Muslim for 250 years, but we were orthodox before that and deep down we were always Serbs, religion cannot change that. We only became Muslims to survive the Turks.

Emir Kusturica

#14. I'm fed up with democracy. In a democracy, people vote for the mayors. I wanted to build a city where I will choose the citizens.

Emir Kusturica

#15. as the Charles Dickens formula for success has it: "Make them laugh. Make them cry. But, most of all, make them wait."6

Jack R. Hart

#16. White villas glittered against the olive woods! What quiet harbours, thronged with gallant shipping bound for purple islands of wine and spice, islands set low in languorous waters!

Kenneth Grahame

#17. Stand-up comedy is a raunchy profession.

Aziz Ansari

#18. I've reached the 50th year of my life, and now every question related with life also includes thinking about death. When I leave, I want to leave to my offspring a clear idea about identity.

Emir Kusturica

#19. Just because I believe in the identity and integrity of my country doesn't make a xenophobe or a nationalist.

Emir Kusturica

#20. I will not cut my film because, because, because, because of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Emir Kusturica

#21. Every time I'm shooting a movie I want to kill myself. Because I don't see the light in the end of the tunnel.

Emir Kusturica

#22. What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world.

Emir Kusturica

#23. Enlightenment arrives like a thief in the middle of the dark night of the soul.

Stefan Emunds

#24. I've been around some very famous people, but no one has the effect Maradona has; people tremble in his presence.

Emir Kusturica

#25. I never wanted an independent Bosnia. I wanted Yugoslavia. That is my country.

Emir Kusturica

#26. You can go from creating the design on your iPad to making the object on your MakerBot.

Bre Pettis

#27. I am a living illustration of Bosnian mixing and converting. My grandparents lived in eastern Herzegovina. Very poor. The Turks came and brought Islam. There were three brothers in the family. One was Orthodox Christian. The other two took Islam to survive.

Emir Kusturica

#28. It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.

Graham Greene

#29. If we want to save some money, let's just get rid of the court.

Bobby Jindal

#30. In Serbia a lot of people hate me because they want to westernize, not understanding that the western world is bipolar, with very good things and very bad things.

Emir Kusturica

#31. Making movies is a dangerous job. Because you are always the one who stands at the center of the universe when making movies.

Emir Kusturica

#32. I imagine him grown up and finished with med school, patients lying on the operating table - reaching inside people's rib cages, fixing their broken hearts.

Katie Cotugno

#33. I am finished with cities. I spent four years in New York, ten in Paris, and I was in Belgrade for a while. To me now they are just airports.

Emir Kusturica

#34. I think the growth of the brain is a slow process. But you do change and the more you accept change and embrace change, the better.

Diane Keaton

#35. She remembered her fingers threaded through his hair and his kisses in places that made her long for him years later.

Whitney Otto

#36. I was a big fighter when I was younger. In bars I was ready to explode and fight.

Emir Kusturica

#37. You know, in each segment of ex-Yugoslavia, multi-ethnic life is lost, except I think we somehow still have this in Serbia.

Emir Kusturica

#38. That is a Medieval way of drawing history, in which they do not respect the law and want the rest of the world to respect the law. That's not possible.

Emir Kusturica