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The select group of people who do make realistic cinema, who do make cinema perhaps a little more acceptable to the Western audience, is a very small percentage.

Amitabh Bachchan

I think people forget that to be on the A list you first had to go through the original graded Parliamentary Selection Board. I did that and then like everyone else had the further interviews to get onto the A list.

Adam Rickitt

Four years earlier I had been selected, with Kay Boyle, the writer, and a number of others, to go to Cambodia and come back and prove that there were no sanctuaries in that country.

William Kunstler

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

Walter Savage Landor

Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so; For those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow, Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me. From rest and sleep, which but thy picture[s] be, Much ple...

The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose

Ah, the freshness in the face of leaving a task undone! To be remiss is to be positively out in the country! What a refuge it is to be completely unreliable! I can breathe easier now that the appointments are behind me. I missed them all, through del...

Fernando Pessoa and Co.: Selected Poems

You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the world doesn’t need anymore of that sound. So if you’re going to do it and can’t stop yourself, if your pretty mouth can’t hold it in, at least go by yourself across the forty ...

New and Selected Poems, Vol. 2

One of the schools of Tlön goes so far as to negate time; it reasons that the present is indefinite, that the future has no reality other than as a present hope, that the past has no reality other than as a present memory. Another school declares th...

Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings

I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by, And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking, And a grey mist on the sea's face, and a grey dawn breaking....

Sea Fever: Selected Poems

The whole tendency of modern life is towards scientific planning and organisation, central control, standardisation, and specialisation. If this tendency was left to work itself out to its extreme conclusion, one might expect to see the state transfo...

Religion and World History: A Selection from the Works of Christopher Dawson

...and specimens like this confirmed there had been some kind of divine rule in the universe because no natural selection process was up to the task of creating something like him. This was some god’s, somewhere’s, handiwork.

Crash

Aside from a very select few, there are no overnight success stories. Most of the time that single step took a thousand miles to get to it.

Darkness Left Undone

Your soul is the priestess of memory, selecting, sifting, and ultimately gathering your vanishing days toward presence.

Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest. If you're not haunted by something, as by a dream, a vision, or a memory, which are involuntary, you're not interested or even involved.

Book of Sketches

I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest.

Adam Bede

The beauty of Goodreads is that you know you’re sowing in a field where everyone, by definition and self-selection, loves to read.

APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur. How to Publish a Book

Writers use narratives to select from everything there is, and make contexts by putting the pieces into relation; that’s what writers do, they make contexts.

How to Like Everything: A Utopia

God is the same, even though He has a thousand names; it is up to us to select a name for Him.

By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

i wish cats could float around your head

Selected Unpublished Blog Posts of a Mexican Panda Express Employee

Oh, we do not understand death, we never understand it; creatures are only truly dead when everyone else has died who knew them.

Selected Short Fiction