Stejskal Miroslav Quotes

#1. We do not believe in the educative power of words and commands alone, but seek cautiously, and almost without the child's knowing it, to guide his natural activity.

Maria Montessori

#2. Eliot admitted later on that science-fiction writers couldn't write for sour apples, but he declared that it didn't matter. He said they were poets just the same, since they were more sensitive to important changes than anybody who was writing well.

Kurt Vonnegut

#3. There's nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you're not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I'm the worst. I'm the worst at that.

Tom Waits

#4. Human nature, for better or worse, always eventually comes to the fore again. And human nature likes and needs stories that are stories.

John C. Wright

#5. When our heart is broken, we can't hear it. And when we can't hear our heart, we can't hear God.

Melody Beattie

#6. If wild my breast and sore my pride, I bask in dreams of suicide, If cool my heart and high my head I think 'How lucky are the dead.

Dorothy Parker

#7. We, as producers, want to tell the best stories. We want to tell the stories that people will talk about.

Todd Lieberman

#8. Sin is in, and so we begin ...

Denis Leary

#9. Photography has a relation to intervention, but photographing is not the same as an intervening.

Judith Butler

#10. Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a 'work' of man.

Mary McCarthy

#11. There comes a point in many people's lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen for themselves. When that happens, we are like actors finding that someone has changed the play.

Brian Moore