"The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown."

-- Plato

#Death Quotes #Real Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“I've become friends with Michael Mann and Oliver Stone; I've seen those guys work and that was great to see.”
“In 1971, after seven years in college, with that magic piece of paper clutched triumphantly in my fist, the best job I was able to get was night watchman on a sewer project in Babylon, N.Y. guarding a hole in the ground to prevent anyone from stealing it. God bless the American educational system!”
“I used the physical scar of my breast cancer operation, the scar that I have across my chest as a metaphor for all kinds of scars.”
“My job, I think, is the hardest job out of all the judges because I am the only one that is a performer.”
“The artist needs to sit patiently at the feet of Nature in all Her moods and nuances and silently develop the skills to honour Her. There are no recipes for Autumn.”
“What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?”
“The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.”
“The recent past is full of diverse examples of writers - Mahfouz in Egypt, Pamuk in Turkey, and more interestingly, Pasternak in the Soviet Union - who have conducted their arguments with their societies and its political arrangements through their art in subtle, oblique ways. They didn't always have the license to make bold pronouncements about freedom, democracy, Islam, and liberalism, but they exerted another kind of moral authority through their work.”

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