"I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue..."

-- William Faulkner

#People Quotes #Tongue Quotes #Consistent Quotes

“I would not have made any of my films or written scripts such as Taxi Driver had it not been for Ingmar Bergman, What he has left is a legacy greater than any other director.... I think the extraordinary thing that Bergman will be remembered for, other than his body of work, was that he probably did more than anyone to make cinema a medium of personal and introspective value.”
“That's the way I feel about the world: there are certain problems that can only be dealt with that way - going out and doing them. As ugly a truth as that is, I do think it's the truth about the world.”
“I've been elected numerous times in South Carolina. If I'm on the ballot, I'm going to win South Carolina.”
“We can no longer communicate with the apes by direct language, nor can we understand, without special study, their modes of communication which we have long since replaced by more elaborate forms. But it is at least presumable that they could still detect in our speech, at least when it is public and elaborate, the underlying tone values with which it began. Thus if we could take a gibbon ape to a college public lecture, he would not understand it, but he would "get a good deal of it." This is all the students get anyway.”
“You can holler, protest, march, picket and demonstrate, but somebody must be able to sit in on the strategy conferences and plot a course. There must be strategies, the researchers, the professionals to carry out the program. That's our role.”
“We are not like dogs who are kind of "What am I going to eat today? Oh, there is a rabbit; I am going to go chase it."”
“I don't understand why, in entertainment, the hours are as long as they are. It seems like everything takes forever, and no one can tell you why exactly.”
“I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.”

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