It’s an oddity that will be avoided by millions of people, this new ‘Pinocchio.’ Osama bin Laden could attend a showing in Times Square and be confident of remaining hidden. Elvis Mitchell Read Quote
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music. Denis Diderot Read Quote
During the ’90s, a lot of us in the indie film world were not making our money off our movies. We were screenwriters doing scripts for hire for studios. Allison Anders Read Quote
I think that art is an act of violence, and the more emotionally engaged you are in a piece of art, the more violent it feels. Nicolas Winding Refn Read Quote
This new understanding of processes on Europa would not have been possible without the foundation of the last 20 years of observations over Earth’s ice sheets and floating ice shelves. Saul Perlmutter Read Quote
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs. Christopher Hampton Read Quote
There are estimates that 2 to 3 percent of cancers in the U.S. each year are engendered by exposure to repetitive imaging. Eric Topol Read Quote
I was listening to a lot of bebop. And to Miles Davis. Everyone thinks I was just in the folk world in 1966, but in 1963 and 1964, I was absorbing enormous amounts of music, from baroque to jazz to blues to Indian music. Donovan Read Quote