Krzhizhanovsky Quotes

#1. A word on 'Kingdom of Heaven:' if you get the four-disc set, which is 3 hr. 8 min., you'll see why it's such a good movie. It was a real passion project, and it's the film I'm most proud of. I think it was treated incredibly unfairly.

Ridley Scott

#2. A modern man registers a hundred times more sensory impressions than an eighteenth-century artist

Fernand Leger

#3. Man hath weaved out a net, and this net throwne upon the Heavens, and now they are his own.

John Donne

#4. As I was sifting through a heap of old and new "identity cards," I noticed that something was missing: my identity.

Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

#5. Muscovites see clearly but write muddily; the eye grasps but the fingers splay.

Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

#6. Hiding my half existence behind the opaque walls of my skull, concealing it like a shameful disease, I did not consider the simple fact that the same thing could be occurring under other skullcaps, in other locked rooms.

Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

#7. Oh no.' Straight raised his eyes to me, and a slight smile touched the corners of his lips. 'A philosophy of life is more terrible than syphilis and people - you have to give them credit - take every precaution not to become infected. Especially by a philosophy of life.

Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

#8. In a certain present there is more of the future than in the future itself.

Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

#9. True hustlers are prepared to get hustled and know when to change positions and move to something different and aren't afraid.

Curtis Jackson

#10. What did people do before they could go online and find answers to secret problems? Oh right, they killed themselves

Davida Wills Hurwin

#11. Understanding is strictly forbidden. Even dreams have the right to dream.

Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

#12. I'm a big admirer of Walter Willett's work. I think he's done some really important research. He and I agree on most things.

Dean Ornish

#13. Every person has parallel tracks. You have your personal life or your life as an artist, or whatever it is you do.

Gina Bellman

#14. In short, you had that particular ability which I never had: the ability to be alive.

Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

#15. The outside world is just a bad habit of the so-called nervous system.

Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

#16. In the days of Gary Cooper, James Stewart etc, film stars personified the better aspects of human nature.

Alexander Walker

#17. I've been thinking of trying my hand at rap. I've been recording snippets on my BlackBerry.

Rufus Wainwright

#18. At the time I ... loved someone. Now I wouldn't know how.

Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

#19. Why frighten little children with the dark when one can quiet them with it and lead them into dreams?

Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

#20. Writers, in essence, are professional word tamers; if the words walking down the lines were living creatures, they would surely fear and hate the pen's nib as tamed animals do the raised whip.

Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

#21. If you're going to marry someone, maybe you can be mad for a few weeks and it can still work out.

Mireille Enos

#22. How did people end up confusing the fear of falling to their death on the jagged rocks below with the feeling of being struck by Cupid's arrow?

Sheena Iyengar

#23. I could burn you down.

Nora Sakavic

#24. A dingily bilious sun was seeping through a tent of black clouds. Passersby, spitefully elbowing elbows, were rushing along the pavement. People thronging the doorways of shops tried to pummel their way through and stuck fast, their faces flushed with spite and fury, their teeth bared.

Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

#25. The way my father raised me, we don't pat ourselves on the back. We don't call ourselves great, we let other people do that.

Andre Ward

#26. And if I don't be there by morning, she'll know that I must've spent the night in jail.

Eric Clapton

#27. I looked up. From the pediment of an old brick church, a gigantic eye painted into a triangle was staring straight at me through the mist.

Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky