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“When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.”
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“Life is more important than 'what film I do next.”
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“Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.”
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“Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.”
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“He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.”
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“Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy;Is it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?”
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“It’s very easy for me to gain weight. Even though I tried not eating for a week when I was really young, I couldn’t do it any longer because I liked my food too much.”
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“A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.”
Source : Abbott Joseph Liebling (1970). “The Earl of Louisiana”, p.19, LSU Press
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“The distinction between right and wrong ("la distinction du bien et du mal", Fr.), is nothing else than their unyielding (or implacable) opposition; thus the moral consciousness is an innate and intimate revelation of the absolute, which goes beyond (or goes pass, or exceed) every empirical data (or given information). It is only on these principles that we will be able to establish ("pourront être édifiées", Fr.) the real basis of morality.”
Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 60), 1937.
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“On general principle, I boycott shows that don't employ actors.”
