Shrieks Echo Quotes

#1. Strength does not come in those times when you hit the mark; it comes in those times when you strive to but miss.

Deborah Brodie

#2. In that valley the train shrieks echo like souls on hooks.

Sylvia Plath

#3. A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.

Sri Aurobindo

#4. Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go to one's grave without having directed. It's a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.

Stephen Fry

#5. She wasn't entertainment for him. He
didn't need her to make him laugh or bolster his ego or to figure him out so he wouldn't have to. A lot of men who said they were looking for a relationship really wanted a combination sex buddy, therapist, and mirror.

Eileen Wilks

#6. War can't end terrorism. War is terrorism.

Philip Berrigan

#7. Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

Margaret Fuller

#8. Thus must the bewildered Wanderer stand, as so many have done, shouting question after question into the Sibyl-cave of Destiny, and receive no Answer but an Echo. It is all a grim howling of wild beasts, or the shrieks of despairing, hate-filled men ...
(The Everlasting No)

Thomas Carlyle

#9. I came across the Indonesian genocide in 2001, when I found myself making a film in a community of survivors. They were plantation workers, and it turned out they were struggling to organize a union.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#10. It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while.

Albert Einstein

#11. Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.

Franz Kafka

#12. A man's satisfaction with his salary depends on whether he makes more than his wife's sister's husband.

H.L. Mencken