Izolmont Quotes

#1. The assumption that simple = stupid. But it's not true; indeed, I find from personal experience that the stupidest writers are the ones whose writing is positively baroque in form.

John Scalzi

#2. A total commitment gives you the extra ounce of courage that it takes to win.

Arthur L. Williams Jr.

#3. Great little One! whose all-embracing birth
Lifts Earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to Earth.

Richard Crashaw

#4. All weather is sin-related. Lust causes thunder, anger causes fog, and you don't want to know what causes dew.

Stephen Colbert

#5. Theater is a space where you cross over from everyday life, because there are real people in that moment moving in front of you - you're being invited to believe in a story and cross that bridge.

Cate Blanchett

#6. The two officers seemed more puzzled by Emily's costume than by the presence of a corpse in the Mercedes. Perhaps corpses were more regular.

Margaret Scherf

#7. If the Arabs are strong enough, they would destroy the whole world,therefore, we should annihilate them.

Keanu Reeves

#8. In some ways, 'The Little Mermaid' was old-fashioned. Rendered in the hand-drawn style, it was the last Disney animated feature to use cels and Xeroxing. Pixar and its CGI imitators soon made that rigorous process obsolete.

Richard Corliss

#9. For movies, you need to come up with a movie that is only possible to screen in the theater, which legitimizes the way you watch them. You buy your ticket so you need to get something in exchange for that. It should be a spectacle.

Fedor Bondarchuk

#10. Grand Slam losses are hard. I treat myself after losses though, I usually go to McDonald's and I have a hamburger and you know, something. Because you know, you just need to be nice to yourself sometimes after the loss.

Venus Williams

#11. If you take a little time, let's say three weeks off, after recording a song, and you listen to it every other day, you're just going to know eventually.

Andrew Bird

#12. History tells us that a general can move and feed an army as efficiently as he likes, but the real litmus test is the battlefield.

Saul David

#13. His life and family circle changed considerably between 1900 and 1905. In February 1903, Proust's brother Robert married and left the family apartment. His father died in September of the same year. Finally, and most crushingly, Proust's beloved mother died in September 1905.

Marcel Proust