"Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments."

-- Joseph Addison

#Distance Quotes #Tired Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Memory does not make films, it makes photographs.”
“By the duty to be happy, I thus refer to the ideology... that urges us to evaluate everything in terms of pleasure and displeasure...on the one hand, we have to make the most of our lives; on the other, we have to be sorry and punish ourselves if we don't succeed in doing so. This is a perversion of a very beautiful idea: that everyone has a right to control his own destiny and to improve his life.”

Source : "Perpetual Euphoria On the Duty to Be Happy". Book by Pascal Bruckner, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2011.
“I did 'Nobody Walks' right after 'Dredd.' Well, actually, I got off the plane from Capetown where we shot 'Dredd' and tested for 'Being Flynn' that same day. Then I came out to L.A. to make this film right after that so it was all very back to back.”
“Winter has caused damage everywhere: meadow and forest are all grey, where before you heard many sounds. If I could see the girls play ball on the street, then bird song would come back. If only I could sleep through the winter! When I am awake I feel only hatred that his power is so far and wide. God knows, he even fights with May; I picked flowers where there is now snow.”
“My relationship and the bond with the people in Montreal was kind of special and doesnt happen very often.”
“We've always been ready for female superheroes. Because women want to be them and men want to do them.”
“The more pride we have, the more other peopleâ€™s pride irritates us”
“I conceive of God, in fact, as a means of liberation and not a means to control others.”

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