Tawfiq Quotes

#1. True artistic renewal does not mean being stripped of fetters. It means moving into new fetters.

Tawfiq Al-Hakim

#2. Considering some of the things I've done, touching another man's dick is not exactly going to send me into a moral meltdown.

Santino Hassell

#3. I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.

Xun Zi

#4. What I was utterly convinced of, and still am, is the idea that the only responsibility the free intellectual has is vis-a-vis himself. He is not responsible to either a political party or a ruler.

Tawfiq Al-Hakim

#5. When I make films, I work with Mike Leigh, who's the most prolific director in England.

Lesley Manville

#6. a dream can be the highest point of a life

Ben Okri

#7. When the artist ... intends from the beginning to be obscure and take obscurity as his objective or goal for its own sake and wishes to astonish, shock, and seem mysterious, that is a swindle.

Tawfiq Al-Hakim

#8. CHRIST'S LIFE ILLUSTRATES PLAINLY THAT THE CROWN OF VICTORY IS FORGED FROM THE GOLD OF OBEDIENCE.

Calvin Miller

#9. There is always a state of anxiety, of searching and delving for style.

Tawfiq Al-Hakim

#10. Work is a major instrument of God's providence; it is how he sustains the human world.

Timothy Keller

#11. The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to repeat himself. So to think that he'd be making the same kind of film in the year 2001 that he made in 1941 is absurd.

Leonard Maltin