Zeffirelli Quotes

#1. There are those who think that Zeffirelli's Hamlet is the way to treat Shakespeare. I think that cinema can handle much more. We somehow expect cinema to provide us with meaning, to console us. But that's not the purpose of art.

Peter Greenaway

#2. I like being part of good movies and telling stories that mean something to me. I also like playing characters that I look up to.

Katie Holmes

#3. When you are so unhappy you don't know how to accomplish anything, then to have control over your body becomes an extreme accomplishment. You make of your body your very own kingdom where you are the tyrant, the absolute dictator.

Hilde Bruch

#4. Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?

Solomon Short

#5. I know dozens of authors who have had a lot of books published by New York, and they won't ever take another Big 6 contract since they've gotten a taste of the freedom, control, and money self-publishing offers.

J.A. Konrath

#6. May I quickly attain complete enlightenment, and having attained the state of a buddha, may I guide all sentient beings to liberation and the awakened state itself.

Tulku Urgyen

#7. You probably heard about the big prisoner swap with Cuba. A man who has been incarcerated in Havana for five years is back home in the United States. And we sent them some prisoners. The deal still has to be approved by President Obama and Bud Selig.

David Letterman

#8. All the problems of the world are caused by people who do not listen.

Franco Zeffirelli

#9. When I get down on my knees, it is not to pray.

Madonna Ciccone

#10. Do not let the evil become our masters, but make the good reign upon the world.

Abhijit Naskar

#11. Although Carroll is now something of an iconic figure for psychedelic drug users, there is only the tiniest shred of evidence that he ever took laudanum, morphine, cocaine, magic mushrooms or indeed that he sampled any mind-altering drugs at all.

Jenny Woolf

#12. I have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrate all the arts.

Franco Zeffirelli

#13. The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder if you do it for a god).

Terry Pratchett

#14. You can Light Up the Whole World by Giving without any Expectation Back.

Wayne Dyer

#15. As soldiers we have few saving graces. Perhaps our willingness to die for what we believe in is all that matters.

Leo Gordon

#16. If you're a guy over 30 by yourself in the hotel pool, you automatically look like a murderer who's just relaxing after he strangled a family. "Yeah-that dad was a tough one to kill."

Jim Gaffigan

#17. Chapter 1, verse 4, he said. One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever.

Louise Erdrich