W Quotes
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“When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it.”
“When a film is reviled, you open a film and people say "Oh, it's the stupidest thing, it's the worst movie." You think: oh, nobody's going to ever speak to you again. But, it doesn't happen. Nobody cares. You know, they read it and they say "Oh, they hated your film." You care, at the time. But they don't. Nobody else cares.”
“When a film is successful, you don't need to shout about it from the rooftops. I don't believe in going into overdrive. There's no desperation to be acknowledged as the reason for a film's success.”
“When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.”
“When a filmmaker does not make films it is as if he is jailed. Even when he is freed from the small jail, he finds himself wandering in a larger jail. The main question is: Why should it be a crime to make a movie? A finished film, well, it can get banned but not the director.”
“When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us”
Source: Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings
“When a fire rises, don't be quick to worry. Find the purpose of the fire, if it's negative, water it down, if positive, feed the flames.”
Source: Write like no one is reading
“When a fire starts in one it just races through. And that is in a way unconscionable.”
“When a fissure off the California coast started pumping and dumping oil on the nearby towns and beaches, everybody started dumping on Union Oil. Matters weren't helped one iota by a manufactured quotation attributed to Union's president, Fred Hartley, alleging his amazement at the publicity for the loss of a few birds.... Fred Hartley never said what the press reported, as the transcript and the Senate committee members definitely established. But I don't suppose the truth will ever catch up with the more colorful falsehood.”
“When a fixed code of laws, which must be observed to the letter, leaves no further care to the judge than to examine the acts of citizens and to decide whether or not they conform to the law as written; then the standard of the just or the unjust, which is to be the norm of conduct for the ignorant as well as for the philosophic citizen, is not a matter of controversy but of fact; then only are citizens not subject to the petty tyrannies of the many which are the more cruel as the distance between the oppressed and the oppressor is less, and which are far more fatal than those of a single man, for the despotism of many can only be corrected by the despotism of one; the cruelty of a single despot is proportioned, not to his might, but to the obstacles he encounters.”
Source: On Crimes and Punishments and Other Writings
“When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.”
“When a flower rises from the earth, it is overcoming its greatest opponent: fear.”
“When a flower withers, no matter how much you care for it, it will not bloom again.”
“When a focused mind determines where to go, the question of how to get there will not be too important because the focused mind surely finds its way to its destination!”
“When a foggy mind enters the fog, it doesn't understand that it enters the fog!”
“When a fool utters all kinds of insults against you in a social media group without even knowing you or without any worthwhile reason or provocation usually they are merely sad & pathetic attention seeking trolls who we should all feel sorry for. They don't deserve our anger.
They deserve our pity.”
Source: COFFEE ASS BLUES & OTHER POEMS
“When a force
Has fallen into danger,
It can
Snatch victory
From defeat.”
Source: The Art of War
“When a Forsyte was engaged, married, or born, the Forsytes were present; when a Forsyte diedbut no Forsyte had as yet died; they did not die; death being contrary to their principles, they took precautions against it, the instinctive precautions of highly vitalised persons who resent encroachments on their property.”
“When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking.”
Source: Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son
“When a foundation is built following sound structural principles, with solid, high-quality materials, anything that is layered on top is more secure, durable, and resilient. Your integrity works the same way.”
Source: The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
“When a founder has cast a bell he does not presently fix it in the steeple, but tries it with his hammer, and beats it on every side to see if there be any flaw in it. So Christ doth not presently after he hath converted a man, convey him to heaven; but suffers him first to be beaten upon by many temptations and then exalts him to his crown.”
“When a free lion starts proving himself before the circus lions, he no longer remains free.”
“When a free man dies, he loses the pleasure of life. A slave loses his pain. Death is the only freedom a slave knows. That's why he's not afraid of it. That's why we'll win.”
“When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right.”
Source: The Storyteller
“When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies.”
“When a friend askes, there is no to morrow.
[When a friend asks, there is no to-morrow.]”
“When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don't stand still and look around On all the hills I haven't hoed, And shout from where I am, What is it? No, not as there is a time to talk. I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground, Blade-end up and five feet tall, And plod: I go up to the stone wall For a friendly visit.”
Source: Frost: Poems
“When a friend is carried to his grave, we at once find excuses for every weakness, and palliation of every fault. We recollect a thousand endearments, which before glided off our minds without impression, a thousand favors unrepaid, a thousand duties unperformed; and wish, vainly wish, for his return, not so much that we may receive as that we may bestow happiness, and recompense that kindness which before we never understood.”
Source: The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler
“When a friend is going through a difficult stormy time in their life, try to be the rainbow that makes them smile.”
“When a friend is in need, be graceful without having your friend to plead
As someday you too could be down
Hoping some friend would come around
It's only lip service we should share
Reach out & show you care!
Blessed are those who get a chance
To make their friends jump and dance
Let your friends be prioritized...
Get your friends #Mickeymized!”
“When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.”
“When a friend is sick, I see the situation for what it is, not what it isn't, and I offer to help as much as she wants, not as much as I want.”
“When a friend leaves you, you move on. When a best friend leaves you, part of you is gone”
“When a friend lets us down we feel
as if we were being punched in the stomach,
but where it will hurt the most is in the heart.
Because it is in the heart that this friend is.”
“When a friend needs consoling, do not give in to the temptation of telling stories similar to theirs of disaster or bereavement. It is something people often do to show empathy but nothing is more tiresome than other people's problems when you want to focus on your own. Listening is by far the best form of consolation.”
“When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail's response was to write a letter to her husband and include these words, "My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.”
“When a friend of mine boasted about living in a gated community, I thought he meant Folsom, and I wondered whether he knew Charles Manson.”
“When a friend of mine introduced me to the music of Luca C & Brigante I was stuck with an apocalyptic feeling, as if I were listening to the sound of a party at the end of the world. And with such strong imagery coming to mind I was only too happy to write with them when they asked. Flash of Light is about that last night on earth, a forewarning of the end of an era and a last chance to Love.”
“When a friend puts out a new album and it's really great, it makes you want to do something that great and it makes you get yourself in gear. It's healthy competition that helps make some great music.”
“When a friend speaks to me, whatever he says is interesting.”
“When a friend suddenly comes to mind for no apparent reason, he said it’s because they are near to us in thought or spirit. He explained that a connection takes place on the thought waves that run between us. Thoughts are things that can reach out and touch us.”
Source: Jack McAfghan's - The Lizard from Rainbow Bridge: A True Tale of an Animal Spirit Angel
“when a friend tells me
he has to fight the urge
to flip his electric razor's "on" switch
and toss it in his bathwater,
I pat his shoulder and say,
Yeah. . . yeah, I know what you mean . . .
when I want to say, Please! Don't tell me this.
I'm as helpless as you.”
“When a friend, then, indulges in the joy unburdening a secret on to another friend's bosom, he makes the latter, in his turn, feel the urge to taste the same joy himself.”
Source: The Betrothed,
“When a friendship is important enough, with mutual respect, most obstacles provide the opportunity to broaden each person's perspective and help each one grow in interesting and unexpected ways.”
Source: Friendship Interrupted: Challenges and Practical Solutions - What You Can Do
“When a fruit becomes ripe and separates from the tree, that is a proper ending of relationship. But human relationships rarely have such ending. That’s why there is always an urge to re-start the relationship, just to have a proper ending.”
“When a fully qualified Mahayana disciple relies completely upon a fully qualified Mahayana Spiritual Guide the attainment of enlightenment is easy.”
Source: Joyful Path of Good Fortune: The Complete Buddhist Path to Enlightenment
“When a garden is used as a place to pause for thought, that is when a Zen garden comes to life. When you contemplate a garden like this it will form as lasting impression on your heart.”
“When a gardener plants seeds they wait for them to grow, in the knowledge that they will ripen in their own time; so with our practice, we take a relaxed step back and allow it to mature naturally, in its own time. Appreciating this helps us to have a relaxed approach to our training, and means we are making a significant investment in the mental health of our future self. We will come to experience all the beneficial effects of our practice.”
Source: Guide to the Mindful Way of Life
“When a gay person turns his back on you, it is anything but an insult; it's an invitation.”
“When a general complains of the morale of his troops, the time has come to look at his own.”