Gittes Of Chinatown Quotes

#1. Irena went to the window to savor the freedom of solitude.

Milan Kundera

#2. One man and a dozen fools would govern better than one man alone.

Ben Chifley

#3. Being a Boy Scout saved my life. I was a bookish, introverted kid, shy and withdrawn, unhappy and easily bullied. I was also gay, although I didn't know it yet. I should've been miserable. But being a scout got me out of myself and into the world.

Christopher Bram

#4. I don't mind saying in advance that in my opinion jealousy is normal and healthy. Jealousy arises out of the fact that children love. If they have no capacity to love, then they don't show jealousy.

Donald Woods Winnicott

#5. Human excellence, parted from God, is like a fable flower, which, according to Rabbis, Eve plucked when passing out of paradise
severed from its native root, it is only the touching memorial of a lost Eden; sad, while charming
beautiful, but dead.

Charles Villiers Stanford

#6. Most jobs are easy to learn; most jobs are difficult to master.

Ben Tolosa

#7. As a heart surgeon I am on constant call, and when not researching or giving lectures, I like to be with my family.

Magdi Yacoub

#8. This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.

Tacitus

#9. Call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.

Matthew McConaughey

#10. In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.

Aristotle.

#11. There is simple ignorance, not knowing, and willful ignorance that refuses to know, that covers the light of knowledge with the dark blanket of bias.

Elizabeth Moon

#12. I don't feel the need to direct. I tried to get other people to direct Dances, but they wouldn't do it. They all thought it was too long. One director wanted to cut the Civil War sequence. Another thought the white woman was very cliched.

Kevin Costner

#13. We don't know whether they're going to eat us or elect us for their tribal deities.

Clark Ashton Smith