All Quotes

"The central task of education is to implant a will and a facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together. In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists."

"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."

"The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than production for use, and play older than work. Man was shaped less by what he had to do than by what he did in playful moments. It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities."

"Commitment becomes hysterical when those who have nothing to give advocate generosity, and those who have nothing to give up preach renunciation."

"Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death."

"An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head."

"It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the way when they are running away; that they see the light when they feel the heat; that they are chosen when they are shunned."

"Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity."

"The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America."

"We take for granted the need to escape the self. Yet the self can also be a refuge. In totalitarian countries the great hunger is for private life. Absorption in the minutiae of an individual existence is the only refuge from the apocalyptic madhouse staged by maniacal saviors of humanity."

"One wonders whether a generation that demands instant satisfaction of all its needs and instant solution of the world's problems will produce anything of lasting value. Such a generation, even when equipped with the most modern technology, will be essentially primitive — it will stand in awe of nature, and submit to the tutelage of medicine men."

"Stanley Tucci - Secondo"

"Marc Anthony - Cristiano"

"I'm a businessman. I'm anything I need to be at any time."

"No. She’s a Philistine. I’m not gonna talk to her. She no understand anyway."

"In love and life, one big night can change everything."

"Minnie Driver - Phyllis"

"Is what the customer wants, is what the customer ask for, make it, make it, make it!"

"Ian Holm - Pascal"

"Isabella Rossellini - Gabriella"

"Tony Shalhoub - Primo"

"You have to kill yourself after you eat it because you can't live! To eat good food is to be close to God.""

"Caroline Aaron - Woman in Restaurant"

"Allison Janney - Ann"

"Campbell Scott - Bob"

"Susan Floyd - Joan"

"Pasquale Cajano - Alberto N. Pisani"

"Robert W. Castle - Father O'Brien"

"Andre Belgrader - Stash"

"Gene Canfield - Charlie"

"Liev Schreiber - Leo"

"Peter McRobbie - Loan Officer"

"Christine Tucci - Woman Singer"

"Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as raven's claws"

"I will not go Prefer a feast of Friends To the Giant family"

"Resident mockery give us an hour for magic"

"I'm sick of dour faces Staring at me from the T.V. Tower. I want roses in my garden bower; dig?"

"The program for this evening is not new. You have seen This entertainment through and through. You've seen your birth, your life and death; you might recall all of the rest — (did you have a good world when you died?) — enough to base a movie on?"

"They're making a joke of our universe"

"Do you know freedom exists in a school book Did you know madmen are running our prisons Within a jail Within a gaol Within a white free protestant maelstrom We're perched headlong on the edge of boredom We're reaching for death on the end of a candle We're trying for something that's already found us."

"Always a playground instructor, never a Killer"

"Her cunt gripped him like a warm friendly hand."

"Indian, Indian what did you die for? Indian says, nothing at all."

"Lying on stained wretched sheets with the bleeding virgin, we could plan a murder...or start a religion."

"You know that it would be untrue You know that I would be a liar If I was to say to you Girl, we couldn't get much higher. Come on baby, light my fire — Come on baby, light my fire — Try to set the night on fire."

"There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception."

"He was giving voice in a rock 'n' roll setting to the Oedipus complex, at the time a widely discussed tendency in Freudian psychology. He wasn't saying he wanted to do that to his own mom and dad. He was re-enacting a bit of Greek drama. It was theatre!"

"Jim's contribution to music was that Jim was real. Jim was real on stage. Jim was real when he wrote his songs, when he sang his songs in the studio. He was not a performer. He was not an entertainer. He was not a showman. He was a shaman. He was possessed."

"À chaque fois que la chasse recule, c'est le Coca-Cola qui s'avance."

"Les grandes personnes ne comprennent jamais rien toutes seules, et c'est fatigant, pour les enfants, de toujours et toujours leur donner des explications."