"My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor."

-- Sally Kirkland

#New York Quotes #Revolution Quotes #Activism Quotes

“Adversity gives birth to greatness. The greater the challenges and difficulties we face, the greater the opportunity we have to grow and develop as people. A life without adversity, a life of ease and comfort, produces nothing and leaves us with nothing. This is one of the indisputable facts of life.”
“Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future,and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.”
“The best teachers aren't those who answer our questions, but those who question our answers.”
“It never stops, accepting that fact is difficult. I took some time out for life.”
“It helps being from somewhere other than Hollywood, not having grown up with that sense of film-making. I really wasn't exposed to that as a young woman.”
“It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity.”
“Behind us lay the great Antarctic Land; snow peaks rising beyond one another until by distance they dwindled away into insignificancy. The silence and immobility of the scene was impressive; not the slightest animation or vitality anywhere. It was like a mental image of our globe in its primitive state - a spectacle of Chaos. Around is ice and snow and the remnants of internal fires; above, a sinister sky; below the sombre sea; and over all, the silence of the sepulchre!”
“Dead men have no victory.”

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