Sokurov Alexander Quotes

#1. To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great trust.

Edmund Burke

#2. I sing in the car if I'm in LA, because you're like soundproofed.

Jimmy Fallon

#3. I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me.

Charlie Hunnam

#4. There was something in the music of the accent that Douglass liked: it was as if the Cork people put long lazy hammocks in their sentences.

Colum McCann

#5. we must proclaim the gospel because history has shown that where the gospel is merely assumed it will slowly be perverted and lost.

Bruce Ashford

#6. Every time someone turns on a TV, I go in the other room and read.

Groucho Marx

#7. Beautiful as a dandelion-blossom, golden in the green grass,
This life can be.
Common as a dandelion-blossom, beautiful in the clean grass, not beautiful
Because common, beautiful because beautiful,
Noble because common, because free.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#8. Popular culture isn't a freeze-frame; it is images zapping by in rapid-fire succession, which is why collage is such an effective way of representing contemporary life. The blur between images creates a kind of motion in the mind.

James Rosenquist

#9. Being an actress in Hollywood and being a celebrity tend to feed into one another, but just being a celebrity wouldn't really be interesting to me.

Demi Moore

#10. I tend to move between turtlenecks and shirts and ties. I don't really have a uniform in the sense that some people might.

Norman Foster

#11. There must be labor, incessant and constant, if there is to be a harvest.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#12. It's a lot easier to sabotage your career than to have a career to sabotage.

Win Butler

#13. Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. I have wished to see chemistry applied to domestic objects, to malting, for instance, brewing, making cider, to fermentation and distillation generally, to the making of bread, butter, cheese, soap, to the incubation of eggs, &c.

Thomas Jefferson

#15. Poetry is not Irish or any other nationality; and when writers such as Messrs. Clarke, Farren and the late F. R. Higgins pursue Irishness as a poetic end, they are merely exploiting incidental local colour.

Patrick Kavanagh