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Ten Random Quotes

"The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it."
Jack Welch

"Its body brevity, and wit its soul."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry."
Roberto Benigni

"Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them."
Alfred North Whitehead

"To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die."
Marquis De Vauvenargues

"Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely in the eye."
Sa'Di

"What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it."
Margot Asquith

"Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are."
Robert Bresson

"Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended."
George W. Bush

"That which exists through itself is called The Eternal. The Eternal has neither name nor shape. It is the one essence, the one primal spirit. Essence and life cannot be seen. They are contained in the light of heaven. The light of heaven cannot be seen. It is contained in the two eyes."
Bertrand Russell

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