Addicted to Aphorisms
by artmossfearArchiv für Februar, 2010
Film Quotes
ENGLISH
Distraction is an obstraction for the construction.
(Stéphanie in ‘Science of Sleep’, Michel Gondry, 2006)
Writers are vampires. I’m waiting for the right girl to come along and make me a human being.
(Sam Shapiro in ‘The Private Lives of Pippa Lee’, Rebecca Miller, 2009)
Marta: The women look so beautiful.
Kurt: I think they look ugly.
Brigitta: You just say that because you are scared of them.
Kurt: Silly, only grown-up men are scared of women.
(Dialogue from ‘The Sound of Music’, Robert Wise, 1965)
Get us girls a couple of days and we got over everything.
(April Wheeler in ‘Revolutionary Road’, Sam Mendes, 2008)
If you are my dream then I am yours.
(Alex David in ‘Reconstruction’, Christoffer Boe, 2003)
Perfection is not just a result of total control, but also of the talent to let go.
(Thomas Leroy in ‘Black Swan’, Darren Aronofsky, 2010)
Perhaps it is good to have a beautiful mind, but an even greater gift is to discover a beautiful heart.
(Nash in ‘A Beautiful Mind’, Ron Howard, 2001)
We tend to do dumb shit when we’re fucked up.
(Mike Tyson in ‘Hangover’, Todd Phillips, 2009)
What we have here is a dreamer. Someone completely out of touch with reality.
(Tim Weiner in ‘The Virgin Suicides’, Sofia Coppola, 1999)
We’re all children. We all need approval.
(J.D. Bauby in ‘Le Scaphandre et le Papillon’, Julian Schnabel, 2008)
People should be able to say how they feel – how they really feel – not some words that some strangers put in their mouths.
(Tom in ‘(500) Says of Summer’, Marc Webb, 2009)
Your life is defined by its opportunities. Even the ones you miss.
(Benjamin Button in ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’, David Fincher, 2009)
This whole world’s wild at heart and weird on top.
(Lulu in ‘Wild at Heart’, David Lynch, 1990)
Only unfulfilled love can be romantic.
(Juan Antonio in ‘Vicky Christina Barcelona’, Woody Allen, 2008)
I think everyone has two birthdays. The day of his physical birth and the beginning of his conscious life.
(Lisa Berndl in ‘Letter from an Unknown Woman’, Max Ophüls, 1948)
Wow, what a speech! Half Moses, half Mickey Mouse.
(Said in ‘La Haine’, Mathieu Kassovitz, 1995)
If being crazy means living life as if it matters, then I don’t mind being completely insane.
(April in ‘Revolutionary Road’, Sam Mendes, 2008)
Jeanne: Why you don’t want to know anything about me? Is it because you hate women? What have they ever done to you?
Paul: Well,… either they always pretend to know who I am or they pretend I don’t know who they are and that’s very boring.
(Dialogue from ‘Last Tango in Paris’, Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972)
Chaos reigns.
(Fox in “Antichrist”, Lars von Trier, 2009)
Remember, damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.
(Anna Barton in ‘Damage’, Louis Malle, 1992)
Lester: You are a complicated woman, aren’t you?
Kathy: I am not. I am just really good in complicating things.
(Dialogue from ‘House of Sand and Fog’, Vadim Perelma, 2003)
Stéphanie: Why me?
Stéphane: Because everyone else is boring. And you are different.
(Dialogue from ‘Science of Sleep’, Michel Gondry, 2006)
There are songs that make us want to dance, songs that make us want to sing along, but the best songs bring you back to the moment you first heard them and once again break your heart.
(in ‘Gossip Girl’)
Life isn’t like in the movies. Life… is much harder. (…) Out of the fire of love comes ashes. Even the greatest love eventually fizzles out.
(Alfredo in ‘Cinema Paradiso’, Giuseppe Tornatore, 1988)
GERMAN
Es ist nicht ungewöhnlich. Viele Leute leben so. Sie reisen und sehen sich die Welt an, und dann kommen sie zurück und arbeiten, und wenn sie genug Geld verdient haben, fahren sie wieder los, woanders hin.
(aus ‘Nichts als Gespenster’, Martin Gypkens, 2006)
Weißt Du was ich manchmal denke? Es müsste immer Musik da sein, bei allem, was du machst. Und wenn’s so richtig scheisse ist, ist wenigstens noch die Musik da. Und an der Stelle, wo’s am allerschönsten ist, da müsste die Platte springen und du hörst immer nur diesen einen Moment.
(Floyd in ‘Absolute Giganten’, Sebastian Schipper, 1999)
Wenn man ein Risiko eingeht, kann man verlieren. Wenn man kein Risiko eingeht, verliert man immer.
(Hélène in ‘Joueuse’, Caroline Bottaro, 2009)
Augen ohne Gehirn? Das Gehirn muss vergessen können, um zu sehen. Mein Gehirn hinkte hinterher. Meine Augen fühlten es. Schon beginne ich zu sehen.
(Max Cohen in “Pi”, Darren Aronofsky, 1998)
Die Liebe ist langmütig, die Liebe ist gütig, die Liebe ist nicht eifersüchtig. Sie prahlt nicht, überhebt sich nicht, sie handelt nicht unschicklich, sucht nicht das Ihre, kennt keine Erbitterung, trägt das Böse nicht nach. Am Unrecht hat sie kein Gefallen, freut sich aber an der Wahrheit. Alles erträgt sie, alles glaubt sie, alles erhofft sie, alles erduldet sie.
(Hohelied der Liebe, Kor 1/Kpt 13, zitiert von Yoko in “Love Exposure”, Shion Sono, 2008)
She collects things… 2010 (English/German)
ENGLISH
It’s a shame to only have dreams at night.
You should have a few opportunities during the day.
(Stephen Alesch)
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
(Martha Graham)
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
(Henry David Thoreau)
The world is a book and he who stays at home reads only one page.
(Anonymous)
Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbours’ noisy party than being there.
(Franklin P. Jones)
To honest to fake it.
(Anonymous)
Be prepared: Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.
(Randy Pausch)
Everyone has three lifes: A public life, a private life, and a secret life.
(Anonymous)
Soon It will Be Cold Enough to Build Fires.
(Emancipator)
Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.
(Orison Swett Marden)
Explore. Dream. Discover.
(Anonymous)
There is a point in life when you get tired of chasing everyone and trying to fix everything, but it’s not giving up. It’s realizing that you don’t need certain people and their crap.
(Anonymous)
Stay hungry. Stay foolish.
(Steve Jobs)
What moves people is finding something beautiful. … So successful has been the camera’s role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful. … Photographs create the beautiful and …. use it up.
(Susan Sonntag)
It’s sweet when some knows every single detail about you. Not because you constantly remind them, but because they pay attention.
(Anonymous)
Find the best in everybody, no matter how you have to wait for them to show it.
(Randy Pausch)
One should always be drunk. That’s the one thing that matters. In order not to feel the horrible burden of time, which breaks your shoulders and crushes you to the ground, one should be drunk without ceasing. But on what? On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as suits you. But get drunk.
(Charles Baudelaire)
Words Fail. Music Speaks.
(Anonymous)
Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risks.
(Dalai Lama)
There is a chemical balance between you two which is explosive and when the explosion turns negative there ain’t no turning back.
(Becky, friend)
Enjoy the good times and when they turn into sour apples, juice them!
(Becky again)
You simply can’t make someone love you if they don’t. You must choose someone who already loves you. If you choose someone who does not love you, this is the sort of love you must want.
(Israel Horovitz)
Look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
(Audrey Hepburn)
Imagine what you dont know that you will know tomorrow.
(Anonymous)
Happy together can apply to two persons or apply to a person and his past, and I think sometimes when a person is at peace with himself and his past, I think it is the beginning of a relationship which can be happy, and also he can be more open to more possibilities in the future with other people.
(Wong Kar-Wai)
Every cloud has a silver lining.
(Anonymous)
We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.
(Anonymous)
My favourite thing is to go where I’ve never been.
(Diane Arbus)
It’s Time for Action. (There’s No Option)
(Anonymous)
Don’t bail: the best gold is at the bottom of barrels of crap.
(Randy Pausch)
GERMAN
Perfektion ist langweilig. Aber erfolgreich.
(Anonymous)
Glück ist, wenn der Film weiter geht und die Zeit stehen bleibt.
(Jana Buchholz)
Für jeden berechtigten Tadel am anderen sollte man gleichzeitig eine Eigenschaft suchen, um derentwillen man ihn loben kann.
(Frank Thiess)
Das Herz kann nicht finden, was es will.
(Robert Schumann)
Ein Nein ist kein Nein, sondern eine Einladung, es noch einmal mit einem überzeugenderen Vorschlag zu versuchen.
(M.H.)
Weingenießer sehen gut aus, sind intelligent, sexy, gesund und erfolgreich.
(Hugh Johnson)
Lass dich nicht von dem abbringen, was du unbedingt tun willst. Wenn Liebe und Inspiration vorhanden sind, kann es nicht schief gehen.
(Ella Fitzgerald)
Es gibt viele Möglichkeiten Mut zu zeigen! Nicht nur, wenn man grossen Gefahren ausgesetzt ist! Manchmal braucht man mehr Mut, um einen Traum zu verwirklichen, an sich selbst zu glauben oder einem Menschen das zu sagen, was man wirklich für ihn empfindet. Doch den meisten Mut braucht man sich eigene Fehler einzugestehen, um wieder neu anzufangen!
(Anonymous)
Die Ungeduld ist die einzige Eigenschaft der Jugend, deren Verlust man im Alter nicht beklagt.
(Frank Thiess)
Die wir heute als die Modernen gelten, werden vielleicht morgen schon von noch Moderneren zum alten Eisen geworfen. Wir sind alle Kinder unserer Zeit.
(Max Liebermann)
Viele Frauen sind nur auf ihren guten Ruf bedacht; aber die anderen werden glücklich.
(Josephine Baker)
Jederlei Respect vor der ,Liebe’ aber weiter kommt man ohne ihr. Eine Weisheit übrigens, die mir selbst ziemlich widerlich ist. Aber was soll man machen auf diesem minderwertigen Planeten.
(Thomas Mann)
Jemanden vergessen wollen heißt an ihn denken.
(Jean de la Bruyere)
MORE THAN JUST A FEW LINES
Über das Rätsel des Lichts…
weiß ich soviel, daß man es
biegen, beugen, brechen, zerteilen kann;
auch etwas darüber,
daß die Luft voller Bilder ist,
daß der Raum voller Bilder ist und,
daß die Welt eine energetische Plastik ist,
daß der Raum zwar nicht geschlossen,
aber voll ist, und zwar voll mit Bildern.
(Adolf Luther)
Have a mission.
Plan ahead.
Question everything.
Listen.
Collaborate.
Assume nothing.
Study the past.
Keept it simple.
Communicate.
Draw a diagram.
Never sell out.
Push harder.
Say what you mean.
Be open.
Roll up your sleeves.
Dream.
Welcome change.
Add value.
Aim higher.
Foster intuition.
Do more with less.
Laugh innovate.
Think sideways.
Focus.
Mean what you say.
Take it to the edge.
Relax.
(Anonymous)
Life comes with no guarantees, no time outs, no second chances.
You just have to live life to the fullest.
Laugh as much as you can; spend all your money; tell someone how you feel; tell someone off; speak out; dance in the pouring rain; hold someones hand; comfort a friend; pig out; fall asleep watching the sun come up; smile until your face hurts; don’t be afraid to take chances or fall in love and most of all live in the moment because when you look back one day, knowing you have no regrets, thats what’s going to make you smile.
Because life is a gift to be opened, not a problem to be solved.
So go out, party hard, trip and fall, do whatever you please.
Because it’s your life and every second is one you’ll never get back.
(Anonymous)
Woman D
She collects things.
Living or dead.
Cigarettes cases.
Vintage dresses.
Silver paper clips.
Red and black crayons.
Buttons of all sizes.
Unopened perfumes.
Withered roses.
Cut fingernails.
Hair she pluck from the brush.
Books she stole from the library.
Photographs she took for her exs.
Tears she dripped into the bottles.
Memories of unforgettable kisses.
Images of strangers.
Quotes of Freud.
Stories of Krzysztof Kieslowski.
Names of fatal viruses.
Sweet dreams.
Nightmares.
Alibis.
Lies and excuses.
She makes very good excuses, close to perfection. She is also good at telling lies. She doesn’t know she always sounds more persuasive when telling lies than telling the truth. That is not a good thing. Maybe she doesn’t know much about truth. That’s how she decides to buy a house in the suburbs to store her collection. And how her lists go on. Vinyls. Recording of her pug’s snore. Different colors of straws. Boyfriends with different horoscopes. Sometimes she feels lost when standing in the house of collection.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
