Macrobert Cinema Quotes

#1. My laps-meter, the first caliper of the soul and the first hope of bridging the dread chasm that has rent the soul of Western man ever since the famous philosopher Descartes ripped body loose from mind and turned the very soul into a ghost that haunts its own house.

Walker Percy

#2. We're all just bags of bones and muscle and hormones; I'll never understand what makes our minds do the things we do. It's like that statue of the monkey holding a skull. We're trying to use a thing we don't understand to understand ourselves.

Meshell Ndegeocello

#3. Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. I've read that things inanimate have moved, and, as with living souls, have been inform'd, by magic numbers and persuasive sound.

William Congreve

#4. The lord of time disappeared under a giant blue butt.

Rick Riordan

#5. The blind have no notion of time. The things of time are hidden from them too.

Samuel Beckett

#6. Double et louche (a provocative phrase which could mean "double and squinting" or "equivocal" or "shady" in the sense of disreputable).

Barbara W. Tuchman

#7. The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one
soul, and he has got dozens.

D.H. Lawrence

#8. Yeah, it's risky, but no more risky than driving a car.

Cory Lidle

#9. If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.

Olivia Wilde

#10. Our every action has a universal dimension, a potential impact on others' happiness.

Dalai Lama

#11. He's a sick old man who's lost everything and everyone. You have a huge heart, Gabriel - find room in it to be kind.

Nalini Singh

#12. These characters were like twelve-bar blues or other chord progressions. Given the basic parameters of Batman, different creators could play very different music.

Grant Morrison

#13. A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.

Dorothea Lange

#14. I'm tired of being considered vapid for liking pop music or caring about fashion as if these things inherently lack substance or as if the things I enjoy somehow make me a lesser person.

Grimes

#15. It's exhausting being cynical. You are trying to be an immovable, angry rock in the middle of a stream. But the stream will not move. It is you that will be worn down to dull silt.

Caitlin Moran