Words become sentences, twisted, difficult/The story weaves itself, always noisiest at night/As herds of words won't stop. . . " Wildebeest of Words/Breathe In
You don't need to blow the trumpet when you accomplished something because your work, your action will speak itself.
A Christmas candle is a lovely thing; It makes no noise at all, But softly gives itself away; While quite unselfish, it grows small.
Pleasure brings pain, but inner silence brings nothing negative; it is in itself of great value and is a far better way to be than to be in ego states.
I think that if you keep banging at the door all you need is a little foothold, a little tiny foothold, and then the rest will take care of itself.
The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it.
After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.
I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin.
When it comes to films, people often don't differentiate between the message of a bad central character and the message of the film itself. They are two separate things.
Thought is the greatest of pleasures —pleasure itself is only imagination—have you ever enjoyed anything more than your dreams?
I belonged to the generation that grew up under National Socialism, and was blinded and led astray - and allowed itself to be led astray.
I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself.
The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.
Evil isn't born...Neither is purity. Because even as newborns, there is something wrong inside of all of us bound to spring up and activate itself within us.
Reality is what we tell to go screw itself every time we write or read a book, shoot or watch a movie.
The idea that we can make all things safe for all behaviors is in itself a dangerous and slippery slope.
If you really believe in a cause, let the cause speak for itself. And if you, by your personality, are damaging that cause, if you really believe in it, you step aside.
At Geneva, the neutral states were often in agreement concerning the preliminaries for Genoa, and Genoa itself was marked by a quite natural mutual exchange of ideas.
I'm not a fan of self-help books - how can something be 'self-help' if the book itself is purportedly helping you?
Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.
