edollmeyer’s most recent Quotables

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

I have not yet begun to fight!

Perhaps the role of art is to reflect the world we live in. I don’t think it should be used as a conveyor of political messages as such, otherwise it wouldn’t distinguish itself from propaganda. On the contrary it should create a distance with everyday life, an alternative world that challenges reality and creates a space for the spectator.

The purpose of art is to inform and delight.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

You’re never going to learn something as profoundly as when it’s purely out of curiosity.

The best things in life make you sweaty.

The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

It matters little that you are afraid if you manage to hide it. You are then at the edge of courage.

To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.

You know what a loser is? A real loser is somebody that's so afraid of not winning, they don't even try.

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting ...

It's mystery, like those big heads on Easter Island or the popularity of the teeny-weeny knapsack.

Fortunately, going to the movies seems to suddenly qualify as an intellectual accomplishment, on par with reading a book or devoting time to serious thought. It's not that the movies have gotten any more strenuous, it's just that a lot of people are as lazy as I am, and together we've agreed to lower the bar.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

Because I am both a glutton and a masochist, my standard complaint, "That was so bad," is always followed by "And there was so little of it!"

Voldemort himself created his worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back!

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

Think, speak, and act. With age comes self-reproach: I might have done more. Therefore now do!

When a pebble is thrown into a lake, everything, down to the furthermost depths, moves with it. ... And if, afterwards, everything seems as it was, the level of the lake has none the less been raised by imperceptible, incalculable degree. The old order has been overthrown -- by a pebble.