"Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never."

-- Walter Scott

#Law Quotes #Broken Quotes

“To describe the overwhelming life of a tropical forest just in terms of inert biochemistry and DNA didn't seem to give a very full picture of the world.”
“America should treasure its rare, true original voices and Mark Leyner is one of them. So treasure him already, you bastards!”
“I don't want people to be inspired or offended by what I do. If you determine your behavior by what [other people] want, you're screwed.”
“Once you're done being president, you tend to want to defend your record more than plumb your inner feelings. I find it hard to imagine Obama going home at night and writing sensitive, introspective journal entries about his meeting with John Boehner.”
“A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune”
“That which we do not bring to consciousness appears in our lives as fate.”
“Perhaps the ideal life is that of the week-end artist, who preserves the integrity of his own aesthetic ideals because of his economic independence... If his daily grind is hateful he has his weekly solace in art.”
“The people in our country and in America and in all West European countries, they have to gorge and guzzle so that they don't even start to think about the fact that we have something to do with Vietnam or what it might be about, OK?”

Source : "Audiovisions: Cinema and Television as Entr'actes in History". Book by Siegfried Zielinski, 1999.

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