Quotes About Mr Kurtz

#1. You read the Company's confidential correspondence?' I asked. He hadn't a word to say. It was great fun. 'When Mr. Kurtz,' I continued severely, 'is General Manager, you won't have the opportunity.' He blew the candle out suddenly, and we went outside. The moon had risen. Black

Joseph Conrad

#2. Man. I nearly burst into a laugh. 'Do you read the Company's confidential correspondence?' I asked. He hadn't a word to say. It was great fun. 'When Mr. Kurtz,' I continued

Joseph Conrad

#3. I think we're all aiming to be something better than what everyone thinks we were born to be

Chris Kurtz

#4. The skeptic has no illusions about life, nor a vain belief in the promise of immortality. Since this life here and now is all we can know, our most reasonable option is to live it fully.

Paul Kurtz

#5. The toy business began to drive the [Lucasfilm] empire. It's a shame. They make three times as much on toys as they do on films. It's natural to make decisions that protect the toy business, but that's not the best thing for making quality films.

Gary Kurtz

#6. Dogs don't hold back. They see something they want and go after it. No matter what obstacles get in the way, the sheer act of chasing becomes the reward in and of itself.

Gila Kurtz

#7. There are a lot of things that manage to get broken in a life, most of them never to be put back together again.

Don Kurtz

#8. Cats are good at keeping clean [ ... ] Dogs are good at running forever without getting tired. And I think that pigs are good at being optimistic and not giving up even when things are really bad. So today we're going to do things the pig way, okay?

Chris Kurtz

#9. I used to be a fool ... A stubborn fool. I didn't know enough to stand by my friends. Now I'm just stubborn.

Chris Kurtz

#10. She looked all around. It was so strange to feel trapped in the middle of so much open space. But that was exactly how she felt.

Chris Kurtz

#11. Vibration is at the heart of nature. Music allows us to feel it.

Glenn Kurtz

#12. To make Hakomi effective a practitioner must be more than just someone who knows a method. The practitioner must be someone whose very presence can be healing, a person who has all the qualities needed to support emotional healing in another.

Ron Kurtz

#13. I am heartbroken that this movie would cause anyone pain. It should be a source of joy. The story is a metaphor about how we try to stay in our own little bubbles, we don't let life in, we don't take the journey.

Swoosie Kurtz

#14. Parents have no right to impose their religion on their children ... A Fundamentalist Protestant parent has no right to expect the state to support his own narrow conception of education.

Paul Kurtz

#15. The first half of Vietnam was fought to win the war, and the second half of Vietnam was soldiers going haywire without a mission, getting further and further towards our friend, Captain Kurtz and our friends at 'Apocalypse Now.'

Dylan Ratigan

#16. The theist can only find meaning by leaving this life for a transcendental world beyond the grave. The human world as he finds it is empty of 'ultimate purpose' and hence meaningless. Theism thus is an attempt to escape from the human condition; it is a pathetic deceit.

Paul Kurtz

#17. 'The Daily Beast' and Howard Kurtz have parted company.

Tina Brown

#18. Cats may have nine lives, but pigs . . . don't . . . give . . . up.

Chris Kurtz

#19. Mastery is the natural result of mindfulness.

Ron Kurtz

#20. Skepticism is essential to the quest for knowledge, for it is in the seedbed of puzzlement that genuine inquiry takes root. Without skepticism, we may remain mired in unexamined belief systems that are accepted as sacrosanct yet have no factual basis in reality.

Paul Kurtz

#21. The horror! The horror!

Joseph Conrad

#22. The first thing I ask when I'm offered a part is, Who's the director? which is something they never understand in Los Angeles.

Swoosie Kurtz

#23. Artists paint not for their own enjoyment but to share their vision with others.

John Kurtz

#24. I'd love to do a musical. I have a little list of them in my head.

Swoosie Kurtz

#25. Limitation is the condition of our lives. What matters - what allows us to reach beyond ourselves, as we are, and push at the boundaries of our ability - is that we continue. But then everything depends on how we practice, what we practice.

Glenn Kurtz

#26. I love to be directed, and I can glean something from almost anyone.

Swoosie Kurtz

#27. Artists are always searching for beauty - and when they find it and fashion it in their own unique way - it does not seem too important to analyze how it came about.

John Kurtz

#28. The love of art in its many forms lives on and enables us to enjoy the past, the present, and look with confidence to the future.

John Kurtz

#29. The dismissive notion that conservatives leak to outlets on the right for ideological reasons ignores the fact that liberals often do the same thing with news organizations that are either left-of-center or likely to be sympathetic to the message being peddled.

Howard Kurtz

#30. Good point." Sophia said at last. "I'm not very good at saying sorry, but I apologize.

Chris Kurtz

#31. Artists never seem to get bored with life.

John Kurtz

#32. Working with a great director is like getting a master class in acting.

Swoosie Kurtz

#33. How can you measure the contribution that artists make to society?

John Kurtz

#34. To acknowledge, to accept, and to forgive one's parents - both what they gave and what they did not give, both one's dependence upon them and one's independence of them - is the ultimate hallmark of maturity: a perception as valid for institutions as for individuals.

Ernest Kurtz