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“I know from my own experience that great films and great actors can have a really big influence on you. There is a place for art in the world, and if you're lucky enough to be good at something and to keep being given work, it's not such a bad thing.”
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“Finally, when all was said and done, the certainty (so often experienced, yet always new) that female charms, the kind that inflame the senses, are no more than kitchen smells: they tease you when you're hungry and disgust you when you've had your fill.”
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“Nature, as we say, does nothing without some purpose; and for thepurpose of making mana political animal she has endowed him alone among the animals with the power of reasoned speech.”
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“I'm always suffering from a labor shortage.”
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“In railway halls, on pavements near the traffic, They beg, their eyes made big by empty staring And only measuring Time , like the blank clock. No, I shall weave no tracery of pen-ornament To make them birds upon my singing tree: Time merely drives these lives which do not live As tides push rotten stuff along the shore.”
Source : Stephen Spender (2015). “New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender”, p.50, Faber & Faber
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“It's ignorant! The stereotype is guys that are weak and have failing relationships write about how sad they are. If you listen to our songs, not one of them has that tone. Emo is bullshit! If people want to take it for the literal sense of the word, then yes, we're an emotional band, we put a lot of thought into what we do. People always try to stereotype us, but we don't fit the emo stereotype.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“And because of President Obama, more women than ever are serving in the Cabinet and on the Supreme Court.”
Source : "Cecile Richards DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.
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“By adopting a certain physical posture, a resonant chord is struck in spirit.”