"I realize after spending so long working with images, semiotic deconstruction and redeployment becomes second nature. We all speak with images. I guess I look at everything sideways nowadays."

-- Michael Salu

#Long Quotes #Looks Quotes #Realizing Quotes

“We made one film called Thy Neighbor's Wife in which I got flogged at the public whipping post for adultery. I did my best acting in that film, I guess.”
“People intrinsically know there are secrets being held from us. Look at WikiLeaks: There are secrets that are really true to the world.”
“The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, and the related Accra Agenda for Action, are useful policy instruments that set out the mutual responsibilities of donors and recipient countries.”
“Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.”
“He was moving through a new order of creation, of which few men had ever dreamed. Beyond the realms of sea and land and air and space lay the realms of fire, which he alone had been privileged to glimpse. It was too much to expect that he would also understand.”
“We all have our security blankets in this world. Some are just sharper than others.”

Source : Rob Thurman (2006). “Nightlife”, p.24, Penguin
“When I first started racing, my father said, "Win the race as slow as you can.”
“I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company. I tell my students to try to know molecules, so well that when they have some question involving molecules, they can ask themselves, What would I do if I were that molecule? I tell them, Try to feel like a molecule; and if you work hard, who knows? Some day you may get to feel like a big molecule!”

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