"If you are to stay in the good graces of the powerful, you had best, however unobtrusively, please the servants of the powerful."

-- Samuel R. Delany

#Powerful Quotes #Grace Quotes #Servant Quotes

“It's a question of dropping the armor and getting up and doing the work you want to do. And film at first is frightening because you are like, 'What's that camera doing?' But then it becomes family and therefore a really wonderful experience.”

Source : "Interview with Ann Dowd, Star of ‘Compliance’". www.indiewire.com. August 17, 2012.
“Sweet flowers alone can say what passion fears revealing.”

Source : Thomas Moore (1860). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore”, p.354
“Do you ever find yourself bursting into a sort of lunatic laughter at the sheer prettiness of things?”

Source : Beverley Nichols (2009). “Rhapsody in Green: The Garden Wit and Wisdom of Beverley Nichols”, p.112, Timber Press
“The unaffected language of real feeling and benevolence is easily understood, and is never ridiculous.”
“It is not as mirrors reflect us but, rather, as our dreams do, that movies most truly reveal the times. If the dreams we have been dreaming provide a sad picture of us, it should be remembered that - like that first book of Dante's Comedy - they show forth only one region of the psyche. Through them we can read with a peculiar accuracy the fears and confusions that assail us - we can read, in caricature, the Hell in which we are bound. But we cannot read the best hopes of the time.”

Source : Barbara Deming (1984). “We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader”
“You are water, you understand - electrified water. The elements and balance of ocean water match the blood in your human body. Humans were made from the ocean. This is one of the greatest secrets of creation.”
“Masturbation never got anybody pregnant, does not make anybody go crazy, and what we're about is preventing HIV in our bright young people.”

Source : "Dr. Joycelyn Elders: Marijuana, Masturbation and Medicine". Interview with Laura Flanders, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 20, 2010.
“you boys can keep your virgins give me hot old women in high heels with ***** that forgot to get old.”

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