"First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can."

-- Denis Diderot

#Moving Quotes #Eye Quotes #Heart Quotes

“Well, I think the camera freedom is something that we've resisted for a long time and feels like probably the biggest stretch. But it has some huge benefits.”
“I was trying to develop a completely new, nonvoyeuristic approach to the female body as something other than a visual object. I wanted to find out what happened when you leave behind the voyeuristic mode and confront people with reality. But that's what was so interesting for me to discover: People don't want to see reality. It's a pretty simple idea, really, this question of how we deal with reality. When something is constructed, when it's projected onto a screen, it's acceptable, but it's different when it's there in front of you in a public space.”
“Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.”
“They laughed. Things were funny. They weren't afraid to care. There was no sense to life, to the structure of things.”
“Physiology has, at last, gained control over the nerves which stimulate the gastric glands and the pancreas.”
“I love research and being educated. It's a great job being able to step into all kinds of professions and into other people's shoes.”
“It is the most astonishing thing that persons who have not sufficient education to spell correctly, to punctuate properly, to place capital letters in the right places, should, when other means of support fail, send mss. for publication.”
“Science preceded the theory of science, and is independent of it. Science preceded naturalism, and will survive it.”

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