Len Lye Quotes

#1. How will machines know what we value if we don't know ourselves?

John C. Havens

#2. You couldn't be perfect enough to keep the world from betraying you.

Libba Bray

#3. All of a sudden it hit me - If there was such a thing as composing music, there could be such a thing as composing motion. After all, there are melodic figures, why can't there be figures of motion?

Len Lye

#4. With my little band, I did everything they did with a big band. I made the blues jump.

Louis Jordan

#5. We know for a fact that there are weapons there.

Ari Fleischer

#6. The socialism I believe in is everybody working for the same goal and everybody having a share in the rewards. That's how I see football, that's how I see life.

Bill Shankly

#7. Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to bear arms ...

Simone Weil

#8. To be a true success, you must prepare yourself for an ocassional failure to gain experience and wisdom.

Debasish Mridha

#9. In terms of my own film experience, I'm definitely used to morose and very heavy, heavy dramas.

Mia Kirshner

#10. Christian ethics demand that you should not take revenge. The paradox is, naturally, that Christians worship a God who is the greatest avenger of them all. Defy him and you burn in eternal hell, an act of revenge which is completely out of proportion to the crime

Jo Nesbo

#11. Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#12. There has never been a great film unless it was created in the spirit of the experimental filmmaker.

Len Lye

#13. Although the outsides of a bone are hard, they are generally light and soft inside. They are about 75% water.

Na

#14. There's not that many surprises that you get in life.

Rockmond Dunbar

#15. You think when you don't want to do anything. Thinking is a poor alternative to acting. Your thinking is consuming all your energy. Act, don't think!

U.G. Krishnamurti

#16. Cucumbers are better, motherfucker," Vic told the corpse.

Gavin G. Smith

#17. To appeal to an omnipotent deity is to allow that at any moment the regularities of nature may be ruptured, that miracles may happen.

Richard Lewontin