"The shreiking fight or the out-of-character insult endures forever, while the daily sweetness dissolves like sugar in water."

-- Mary Karr

#Character Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Water Quotes

“There are as many reasons for running as there are days in a year.... But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child.”
“Is anything wrong, dear? the old joke went. No, why? You moved. Just don't move.”
“Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.”

Source : Mind: An Essay in Human Feeling vol. 1, pt. 2, ch. 4 (1967)
“I always try to create equal power between the subject and the object, so as not to end up creating a relationship where the camera is here and the object out there. This is for me a very difficult and sensitive balance. When I produce a work, cut and frame images, I realize that spectators can identify with the images and almost forget that someone else actually made them. This would be the optimal situation. I don't know whether I succeed in doing so, but that's what I would like to have happen.”
“We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.”
“Socrates asks him the crucial question about education, and that is, If you study with this fellow, what will he make of you?”
“Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways.”
“And as a filmmaker, I'm trying to unhook myself from this idea that unless you have a brilliant, long, enormously lucrative theatrical run, that your movie somehow failed. And I don't believe that.”

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