Titicut Follies Quotes

#1. Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which is up against a vast and densely packed majority of the blind, who are led by their instincts and unable to think for themselves.

Lion Feuchtwanger

#2. I've heard it said many times, 'Let's work on the look of the film,' but that doesn't work with me.

Claire Denis

#3. Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.

Edward O. Wilson

#4. What the Depression teaches us is that when the economy is so depressed that even a zero interest rate isn't low enough, you have to put conventional notions of prudence and sound policy aside.

Paul Krugman

#5. It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

Pythagoras

#6. It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

Loren Eiseley

#7. Fine. I'll leave the hammering to you." "Good." "That wasn't a sex joke." "It should have been.

Tiffany Reisz

#8. We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do. We should set them an example that we wish them to imitate.

Brigham Young