"Sometimes I think it's better to suffer bitter unhappiness and to fight and to scream out, and even to suffer that terrible pain, than to just be... safe. At least she knows she's living."

-- Betty Smith

#Pain Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“If you go to a film festival and watch a bunch of features and then watch a bunch of shorts, you will almost always find that the shorts are where people are taking more risks and pushing more boundaries...simply because they have much less to lose.”

Source : Source: www.cutprintfilm.com
“If you are not consciously directing your life, you will lose your footing and circumstances will decide for you.”

Source : FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Jan 28, 2013
“I got an early education from television.”
“By far the most important consequence of the conceptual revolution brought about in physics by relativity and quantum theory lies not in such details as that meter sticks shorten when they move or that simultaneous position and momentum have no meaning, but in the insight that we had not been using our minds properly and that it is important to find out how to do so.”
“Immanuel Kant would've made a lousy lawyer, but a great judge!”
“Complaining begets more complaints. Anger begets more anger. And optimism begets more optimism.”
“An intelligent man or woman willing to make a career of reviewing fiction is hard to come by ... And the temporaries do the work cheaply. Moreover, continuity may be got at the expense of intellectual arthritis; a reviewer who has been at his grisly task for half a lifetime may stiffen into prejudices of every sort, and become too anchylosed to do better than turn his back to a new wave when it rushes down on him.”
“The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.”

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