Fanny Howe famous quotes

Doubt is what allows a single gesture to have a heart.
-- Fanny Howe

#Heart #Doubt #Gestures

We have often had this particular exchange about climate and landscape and why we both feel so lonely here uprooted. It was what each of us had wanted of course.Besides wanting to experience a place we hated, we wanted to be insomniacs and loners, losers and drop-outs. To know the sky was the only location of meaning and joy left to us.
-- Fanny Howe

#Lonely #Sky #Joy

If this world isn't good enough for us then an afterlife won't be enough.
-- Fanny Howe

#Afterlife #World #Good Enough

A divided heart loses both worlds.

But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts. And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts

Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.

To truly find God, truth needs to be found independently from the opinions of others. The truth has to be found in our hearts.

Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.

I don't want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of 'Idiocracy' and 'Borat,' without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture.

Pray and doubt; you’ll do without. Pray and believe; you will receive.

Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.

I try to do romantic gestures all the time.

There is only one way to receive transmission. When I tell you something, do it immediately, without the least wavering thought. That's it. Learn. Open your heart and act. Thought stops action. It perverts it into calculated gesture stripped of grace and efficiency.