Jonathan Rosenbaum Quotes

#1. [On Jason Mashak's "I Was Trained to See Shadows", in his poetry book SALTY AS A LIP:] A nice bit of smooth, full-bodied, surreal story telling. I like it.

John Bennett

#2. He presented it with a length of string
and passed on to the statue of Corrupted Endeavor
to await the arrival of Autumn.

Edward Gorey

#3. Creative thought must always contain a random component.

Gregory Bateson

#4. My daughter is here in town doing a play, and her dog is staying with us. We live up in the hills, so he has access to thousands of acres of wilderness.

Rene Auberjonois

#5. In the Big Equation we are nothing - Except to each other.

Peter Rumens

#6. (The best advice her mother ever gave her: "Walk in like you own the place.")

Emily St. John Mandel

#7. The best way to describe the sonic environment at the '98 CES is:
Imagine that the apocalypse took the form of a cocktail party.

David Foster Wallace

#8. Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.

Howard Hughes

#9. We didn't invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead. We were just in line to see what was going to happen.

Jerry Garcia

#10. Everyone expected something from me. Something I just couldn't give.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#11. He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist.

Johann Most

#12. Just as Freud couldn't always be blamed for the Freudians, Bresson didn't always feel obliged to behave like a Bressonian.

Jonathan Rosenbaum

#13. We dig our graves with our teeth.

Fannie Hurst

#14. I don't like defining myself. I just am.

Britney Spears

#15. I will go to the next election saying to Australians, vote for me, vote for the Liberal Party, and I will become your PM. So I'm offering myself as the alternative PM - that's one way people describe the Leader of the Opposition - but I'm not in politics for myself to realize a personal ambition.

Malcolm Turnbull

#16. Judging by the the movie's enduring popularity, the message that stupidity is redemption is clearly what a lot of Americans want to hear.

Jonathan Rosenbaum

#17. Whether these characters are lovable or detestable, they're lovable or detestable in a TV way - defined by a minimal set of traits that are endlessly reiterated and incapable of expansion or alteration, a fixed loop.

Jonathan Rosenbaum

#18. We are not allowed to linger, even with what is most intimate.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#19. It's a sign of this film's greatness that the enormous sadness that accompanies the final leave-taking of the circus interior is a good deal more than the conclusion of an unpretentious evening's entertainments; it's a sublime and awesome coda to the career of one of this century's greatest artists.

Jonathan Rosenbaum