All Quotes

"i am not a ninja i am Lin Kuei, Scorpion was a ninja"

"I don’t consider it utang na loob (debt of gratitude). I don’t feel like it’s my obligation to take care of my parents now that they’re older just because they raised me and paid for my education. This is not so different from your relationship to your husband or wife. In marriage, you signed a contract and made your vows to be with each other no matter what. To me, these are just promises, and you have a choice not to keep them. However, if you decide to keep them, it’s because of love. You are shown love, and so you love back."

"This, in a way, would be exceeding odd And almost justify man’s ways to God— If, by the healing of these hills, the blind Receive an inner sight, and leave behind Their narrow greed, their numbing fears, and fare Forth with new souls to breathe the honest air;If rich man, poor man, lawyer, merchant, thief Declare with one accord that they'd as lief Laugh and forget, and make a gracious truce With sea and mountain; learn again the use Of earth and sky and ocean-ranging breeze, And dance, and dance beneath the pepper trees."

"Realistic observers of their northern province, the Spaniards always spoke of "The Californias"—Baja California and Alta California; Lower California and Upper California; New California and Old California. Later, still more Californias, more regional entities, were distinctly etched: the Mother Lode Country, known to the natives as Superior California; the Delta district; the Redwood Empire; the great Central Valley; and the Desert Country. While most of these regions and sub-regions are clearly delineated, none is more sharply defined, geographically and socially, than the area now known as Southern California."

"In the and the of the , grandiloquent homes were built for the nation's leaders and heroes with great avenues of approach and triumphal arches. Villages which were found to stand in the way of these grandiose undertakings were removed out of sight. Sweeping changes were made at the seat of the , the victor of , which necessitated the moving of the village of in ; was destroyed in the creating of 's dramatic for the ; disappeared in the lay-out for the magnificent seat of the in . The great Whig palaces and extensive gardens at , and overran ancient villages and hamlets that stood in the way of improvements. , who had envisaged an avenue of trees between London and his , began his improvements by removing the village of which lay in the shadow of his house. The village of in was resited to give breathing space to the family of . ... By the middle of the century great gardens were being made, not only to reflect their creator's importance or political beliefs, but to demonstrate the excellence of his taste. The new vogue was not for great avenues, canals, fountains and grand parterres but for naturalized landscape. Wealthy families in every county bought up vast tracts of land to make natural gardens, which would look like landscape paintings; some took the English countryside for these picture gardens and with the help of idealized and, 'improved' it; the with memories of their s revelled in the creation of Italian classical landscapes."

"… The accepted idea of the of a building, furniture or a painting, as the rehabilitation of an object already in existence, albeit in imperfect form, cannot be applied to gardens which are by their nature organic. They have allotted life spans and have been dug up and refashioned over the centuries. ... At the has been able to restore the garden of the great from original plans, so that the design of the s and seen today is much as Evelyn described it when he visited in 1678. At in the National Trust has restored a from engravings, existing evidence and plant list which have enabled them to use contemporary plants including old cultivars of Turkish irises, apples and pears and old tulips. A current true restoration is being undertaken at , , where the poet 's famous beds, painted by in 1777, are being reinstated with authentic planting. … The ultimate in scholarly garden reconstruction is the Roman garden at executed through excavation and .."

"Mavis fell in love with her future husband, , himself one of the Bletchley “break-in” experts, after he helped her with a particularly difficult code breaking problem: “I was alone on the evening shift in the cottage and I sought the help of what called 'one of the clever Cambridge mathematicians in Hut 6’. We put our heads together and in the calmer light of logic, and much ersatz coffee, solved the problem. Dilly made no objections to my having sought such help and when I told him I was going to marry the 'clever mathematician from hut 6’ he gave us a lovely wedding present.” After the war Mavis Batey brought her indefatigability to the protection of Britain’s historical gardens. Her interest began in the late 1960s, when her husband was appointed the “Secretary of the Chest”, the chief financial officer of Oxford University. They lived in a university-owned house on the park at and she set about ensuring that the overgrown gardens were restored to their original landscaped state."

"(About the 1999 Sanremo Festival) I really don't understand all this enthusiasm. [...] It's all the same. [...] The only difference is the attitude of Fazio and his team: it's almost as if they're apologising for holding the festival. But that's not how you put on a show. Sinatra didn't sing while apologising, circus acrobats aren't ashamed. Interviewer: “The Sanremo circus had ended up in a bad crisis, though...” Baudo: I'm not questioning Fazio's formula, he's good, it works and you can see that. The problem is the songs. He doesn't even announce them anymore, he doesn't even touch the singers. As if they were made of contagious material. At this point, then, we need to dismantle everything definitively, resign ourselves to the idea that the festival is no longer a song contest that people will then buy and sing. And turn it into something else, an Isle of Wight. [...] at this point, the festival is over."

"(About the 1999 Sanremo Festival) The record companies have offered nothing this year. If it is to be a festival for everyone, for ordinary people, then the headmistress must present Battiato and Fossati. Because if the headmistress announces Gatto Panceri, then we are faced with nothing presenting nothing. This game is also the result of years and years of television made in the name of “specific incompetence”. [...] The offspring of those programmes [...] where people play at being out of tune. And of all the other dozens of programmes full of “common people”."

"Interviewer: “You don't like Fazio's television”? Baudo: It's a winning formula. But, let's be honest, it's just constant amazement at everything."

"Yes, I think the audience has changed: in fact, a soap opera filmed in three rooms like “Il medico di famiglia” has a 35 per cent share. Once upon a time, big dramas were made to achieve these results."

"If the new rule is that ordinary people become the protagonists, I'm ready to sit in the audience. [...] If heterodoxy has become orthodoxy, I will be the heretic. But I'm not worried, because in show business there is the piano and there is the forte. If, on the other hand, everything becomes the same, the Nobel Prize winner with the housewife, the astronaut with the accountant, after a while there is a chance that someone will say: but you know it was better when things were worse?"

"(About Television) It's poorly produced. The quality is poor. It works better to put 10 people in a house in front of twenty fixed cameras and see what happens. Or to explode quiz mania, four idiotic questions that make people at home feel intelligent."

"I present those gentlemen who were one step ahead of the others and made it. Not ordinary people. Loretta Goggi and Piero Chiambretti, Massimo Ranieri and Anna Galiena. Enough with Taricone, Cristina and Marina."

"This job is only done when you are happy. I was out of work for a year and a half. I was waiting for a call from Rai. But Biagio Agnes was very angry with me. I even got mutual friends to intervene..."

"Viale Mazzini [the headquarters of Rai] is a kind of prison. Lots of cells facing long corridors. When I was in disgrace, no one came out of their cells to greet me. Now they all rush out jubilantly to welcome me. Audience ratings also affect friendships."

"O are you the boy Who would wait on the quay With the silver penny And the apricot tree?"

"Henry is thinking of his lute and of backgammon, Elizabeth follows the waving song, the mystery, Proud in her red wig and green jewelled favours; They sit in their white lawn sleeves, as cool as history."

"Timothy Winters comes to school With eyes as wide as a football-pool, Ears like bombs and teeth like splinters: A blitz of a boy is Timothy Winters."

"At Morning Prayers the Master helves For children less fortunate than ourselves, And the loudest response in the room is when Timothy Winters roars 'Amen!'So come one angel, come on ten: Timothy Winters says 'Amen Amen amen amen amen.' Timothy Winters, Lord. Amen."

"They are waiting for me somewhere beyond Eden Rock: My father, twenty-five, in the same suit Of Genuine Irish Tweed, his terrier Jack Still two years old and trembling at his feet.My mother, twenty-three, in a sprigged dress Drawn at the waist, ribbon in her straw hat, Has spread the stiff white cloth over the grass. Her hair, the colour of wheat, takes on the light."

"Leisurely,They beckon to me from the other bank. I hear them call, 'See where the stream-path is! Crossing is not as hard as you might think.'I had not thought that it would be like this."

"We movie people should not be afraid of what people will say of our work. We should not allow a word or a theory to drive us into anything or away from anything without some strong inner reason. Most of all, we should not be afraid of popularity and of financial success. Success is like posterity brought within our immediate vicinity. To have pleased millions of people with comedy, pathos or a well-constructed story is to have done a glorious thing. You can call it art, merchandise, trash or wooden nutmegs, but you cannot rob it of its noble mission—to cast light into dark places."

"You can't use imitation silk before the motion picture camera. The lens is even quicker to detect imitation emotion."

"Horace said: "He who would make others weep, must first have wept himself." Every motion picture director should have that on his wall."

"Ever since I was six years old people have been prophesying that I was going to kill myself with overwork. All the prophets are now dead."

"We could make some very fine motion pictures if we didn't have to bother with cameras and lights."

"The censors are going to stop crime by censoring the films. Why don't they put an end to diseases by burning the medical books which describe them?"

"When an actor loses control of himself he loses control of his audience."

"Of course they put communist propaganda in the movies! They paint a rich man as a fiend. They make every rich man in a play look like a fat boy in a museum, and every poor boy is made out as a skeleton. Actually, the only millionaires I've ever known were skinny dyspeptics—look at Rockefeller."

"Woman's intuition is the result of millions of years of not thinking."

"Thank you for giving me such an unforgettable moment."

"I love you. Thank you very much."

"Is it possible to go on a trip with a male friend?"

"We never went on a family vacation. It was our first time traveling as adults. It was fun, I was thankful."

"So I was worried to go back. I didn't have any friends in Korea. I felt like I was immigrating back to the environment that I'd been living in."

"‘I'm not showing these views to my family. I'm not buying these tasty food to my family and only bring my friends."

"It feels so good to be back home. This is my second home, and it’s always wonderful to be here."

"When I started with 2NE1, I was grateful for the support I received."

"I’m happy that I can help these dreamers get closer to Korea."

"I’m thankful to everyone who supported me during my 'Star Circle Quest' days. Now it’s time for these dreamers to shine on stage, and we’ll do our best to help them reach their dreams."

"As we saw in the AVP (audio-visual presentation), the audience will play a significant role in this journey alongside our mentors and judges."

"Hearing the cheers again made me emotional."

"Born and raised in , Mr. Gemignani started making at age 15 in his brother’s pizza shop in When Mr. Gemignani encountered his first on a visit to the city 20 years ago, he was a changed man. “In California, pizza was just that, pizza. But when I started traveling and visiting places like New York, you understand pizza in a totally different and beautiful way,” he said. I felt that there would be a renaissance in the slice business coming,” Mr. Gemignani said. He opened the acclaimed in the in 2009. Shortly after, he realized that the New York slice was just as deserving of respect as the sanctified whole and s that most pizza nerds lauded. So the following year he opened the first Slice House next door — where the pizza boxes read, “Respect the Craft!” in big, bright red letters."

"[...] qui expresse non dicit substantiam, neque accidens, neque Deum, nec creaturam, sed haec omnia per modum unius, scilicet quatenus sunt inter se aliquo modo similia et conveniunt in essendo."

"(About the Assumption of Mary) It is not likely that assumption should be understood of the soul only, both because local assumption properly and strictly refers to the body, and because the souls of other saints also were taken up into heaven though the Church professes and celebrates no assumption for them, but only their passing over, their departure, their birthday."

"There is no doubt that God is the sufficient cause and, so to speak, the teacher of natural law, but it does not follow that he is the legislator."

"(About the Assumption of Mary) She who was conceived without spot and borne without pain, who became mother without loss of virginity, who placed God in the world, who died without suffering, was also preserved from corruption; and we believe she lives in heaven with her body. It is piously believed."

"Of all the things to seek, the first is wisdom, in which lies the form of perfect goodness."

"Wisdom enlightens human beings so that they may recognise themselves."