Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

Sun Tzu

Any excuse to live in New York and do art. Has to be one of the most rewarding experiences in the world.

Tommy Chong

A picture book is a small door to the enormous world of the visual arts, and they're often the first art a young person sees.

Tomie dePaola

The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties.

Terry Eagleton

I think making a movie is like drawing or creating an art piece. The artwork reflects part of your personality, but not all.

Tony Jaa

Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.

Tony Kushner

When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art.

Twyla Tharp

I don’t want what we’re doing to just end up as notes for a novel.

10:04

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

20,000 Leagues Under The Sea

Van egy hely túl életen és halálon, Ahol az égen nincs felhő, és a folyók vize tiszta. Emlékezz rám, és ott rád találok.

47 Ronin

Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.

Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations

God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.

Animal Dreams

What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness.

Animal Dreams

If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.

Ajax

Which would you choose if you could: pleasure for yourself despite your friends or a share in their grief?

Ajax

If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.

All the King's Men

Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events.

All the King's Men

You have to make the good out of the bad because that is all you have got to make it out of.

All the King's Men

I have been a stranger here in my own land: All my life

Antigone

We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.

Antigone

A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.

Antigone