Nonfilmic Quotes

#1. The importance of immobility and silence to photographic authority, the nonfilmic nature of this authority, leads me to some remarks on the relationship of photography with death. Immobility and silence are not only two objective aspects of death, they are also its main symbols, they figure it.

Christian Metz

#2. Good and quickly seldom meet.

George Herbert

#3. My early prose style - this is so embarrassing - was sort of a suburban, Presbyterian knockoff of Woody Allen.

John Hughes

#4. My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness.

Anthony Swofford

#5. I have mild albinism, which means I am very sensitive to light, so the animal representation of my spirit would have to be a mole. I am particularly fond of that most Lovecraftian of mammals, the star-nosed mole, and tend to choose it for online icons and avatars.

Sarah Monette

#6. We must see the great distinction between a reform movement and a revolutionary movement. We are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society ... What America must be told today is that she must be born again. The whole structure of American life must be changed.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#7. I was blessed to be part of a commercial, pushing for this energy bill, but we've been unsuccessful.

Cornel West

#8. I get a lot of pleasure and satisfaction out of giving pleasure to people through my singing; that's fantastic, but it's only entertainment.

Hayley Westenra

#9. A reading is a kind of communion. The poet articulates the semi-known for the tribe.

Gary Snyder

#10. The proper perspective to maintain is that we are here for only one purpose - to be captives marching in the procession of Christ's triumphs.

Oswald Chambers

#11. Art is hard for a puritan to understand.

Gunter Grass

#12. Piper patted his shoulder. Trust me, Valdez. Beautiful people never lie.

Rick Riordan

#13. If you just stop expecting perfection from everyone and everything, you might see the good stuff outweighs the bad. And then someday you'll look in the mirror and see the same thing. Because the person you're most disappointed in is yourself.

Erin Lange

#14. His first two months at Brakebills spun by, and soon red and gold leaves were scattering across the Sea, as if they were being pushed by invisible brooms - which possibly they were? - and the flanks of the slow-moving topiary beasts in the Maze showed streaks of color. Quentin

Lev Grossman

#15. Dog lovers are a good breed themselves.

Gladys Taber

#16. The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom, virtue, equity and humanity.

John Adams