Rohmer Quotes

#1. Foreword by Major-General (Retired) Richard Rohmer Preface to the Fourth Paperback Edition Preface to the Third Paperback Edition Preface to the Second Paperback Edition Preface to the First Edition

Palmiro Campagna

#2. The French don't seek out alliances except when there are difficulties.

Eric Rohmer

#3. No matter how many people celebrate your gifts, don't ever think that you are more important to them than your gift is to them. This is why many people fail: They fail because they think that people came to follow them.

Myles Munroe

#4. There is no incidental music to the dramas of real life.

Sax Rohmer

#5. But if I didn't read, I'd think, and thinking, when you come down to it, is the most painful thing of all, and the most monopolizing

Eric Rohmer

#6. There are few states, I suppose, which exact so severe a toll from one's nervous system as the anticipation of calamity.

Sax Rohmer

#7. It had been the most complex, difficult feat of mass-scale engineering humanity had ever accomplished until the next thing they did.

James S.A. Corey

#8. I've coined new words, like, misunderstanding and Hispanically.

George W. Bush

#9. Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.

Eric Rohmer

#10. You have to know how to go against the trend of the times.

Eric Rohmer

#11. There is no merit in a special talent unless its exercise is of use to others.

Sax Rohmer

#12. I don't owe my success to state subsidies but to a faithful public which has sustained me.

Eric Rohmer

#13. A good film is also a documentary

Eric Rohmer

#14. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it.

Larry Bird

#15. The French are very individualistic.

Eric Rohmer

#16. Quality rather than quantity distinguishes the master.

Sax Rohmer

#17. Only a few people have the background of Nick Saviano to take a player to the next level of excellence

Nick Bollettieri

#18. How strangely does the adventurous intrude upon the humdrum; for, when it intrudes at all, more often than not its intrusion is sudden and unlooked for. To-day, we may seek for romance and fail to find it: unsought, it lies in wait for us at most prosaic corners of life's highway.

Sax Rohmer

#19. I do not say with words. I do not say it with images either. ... I do not say, I show. I show people who move and speak. That is all I know how to do, but that is my true subject.

Eric Rohmer

#20. You can't think of nothing.

Eric Rohmer

#21. I think that high art reposes on popular art, without one there cannot be another.

Eric Rohmer

#22. For one never makes a film out of nothing. To shoot a film is always to shoot something, be it fiction or reality, and the more shaky the reality, the more solid the fiction must be.

Eric Rohmer

#23. Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John Singer] Sargent thinks.

Claude Monet

#24. I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.

Eric Rohmer

#25. There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.

Eric Hoffer