Top 12 Ysmir Quotes
#1. When you're doing that you lose your focus on the discipline of the business, and how you train people at Hamburger University, and everybody gets on a bigger, different vision, and they're not on the same page.
Jim Cantalupo
#2. All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#3. If any art form can accommodate contemporary culture, it's the novel. It's so malleable - it can incorporate essays, poetry, film. Maybe the challenge for the novelist is to stretch his art and his language, to the point where it can finally describe what's happening around him.
Don DeLillo
#4. Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
Tacitus
#5. I think it's a great pity in the Anglophone world that we conflate cinema verite and Direct Cinema; they're, in fact, ontological opposites. In Direct Cinema, we create a fictional reality with characters and pretend we're not that.
Joshua Oppenheimer
#7. and rising extremely unlike Phoebus with the dawn to prepare the schoolhouse.
Peter Straub
#8. Should you trust a stockbroker who's married to a travel agent?
Steven Wright
#9. [One] principle that actuated the lives of the fathers who founded our Constitution was faith in God.
David O. McKay
#10. In your world the weak sell their souls a bit at a time" - Ketastrina
Lawrence Ambrose
#11. Rather than do anything to draw his attention to me, I sat back and watched as he gave a row of metal chairs the worst beating of their inanimate lives, thrashing them into tiny pieces and stomping them into the carpeted floor.
Tim Marquitz
#12. Solitude is considered un-American.
Erica Jong
