Slamdance Screenplay Quotes

#1. Therefore it was not pride that took me into the village twice a week, or even stubbornness, but only the simple need for books and food.

Shirley Jackson

#2. The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while he read, the number of those still to be read disturbed him. ... they stood in rows, weighing down his life like a possession which he did not succeed in subordinating to his personality.

Thomas Mann

#3. If happiness is your destination, love is the only way to reach it.

Debasish Mridha

#4. Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors ...

Thomas Browne

#5. time is better for you.

Joy

#6. Turn off the sound in a movie, and if you can tell what's going on, the movie should work.

Willem Dafoe

#7. I have always thought that great artists were those who dared to confer the right of beauty on things so natural that people say on seeing them, Why did I never realize before that that was beautiful too?

Andre Gide

#8. When I went to America I had two secretaries, one for autographs, one for locks of hair. Within six months the one had died of writer's cramp, the other was completely bald.

Oscar Wilde

#9. People get away with enslaving village girls for the same reason that people got away with enslaving blacks two hundred years ago: The victims are perceived as discounted humans.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#10. The only thing that I miss lately in all music is somebody that will put out a melody that you can whistle. It doesn't seem like there's anything happening like that.

Merle Haggard

#11. Sahaja Yoga is the spontaneous union of the individual consciousness with the All-Pervading Divine Power ...

Nirmala Srivastava

#12. Taking the Bible too literally is a mistake. It should be read as a guidebook of wisdom and insight.

A. J. Jacobs

#13. I try to lead by example.

Usain Bolt

#14. The result, therefore, of this physical enquiry is that we find no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end.

James Hutton