Monday, August 18, 2008

Movie, Book's Quotations


Match point 2005

An Old woman (His neighbour) : You've killed her, what about your child? You’ve killed your own child
(Referring to his mistress whom he killed because she was pregnant with his child)
Chris: “What was that that Sophocles once said?
"‘To never have been born is, perhaps, the greatest gift of all'…”

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George Orwell's
Nineteen Eighty Four

"The past was dead, the future was unimaginable."
Part 1, Chapter 2, pg. 28

"For the first time he perceived that if you want to keep a secret you must
also hide it from yourself." Part 3, Chapter 4, pg. 283

"We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is
inside the skull."
Part 3, Chapter 3, pg. 268

"Sanity is not statistical." Book 1, Chapter 9

"If all records told the same tale — then the lie passed into history and became truth"
Until they become conscious they will never rebel,
and until after they have rebelled they can not become conscious."

"Power is not a means; it is an end"

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One of my favorite anecdotes:

After dinner Lady Astor presided over the pouring of coffee.
When Winston Churchill came by, she glared and said.
"Winston, if I were your wife, I’d put poison in your coffee."
"Nancy," Churchill replied solemnly to the acid-tongued woman,
"if I were your husband, I’d drink it" (!!!!)

Churchill's Quote

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject"

so you must forgive me here if I wander too much from Schumann ; )
I can't help writing on other things.

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PS. I rather hope next week I could post my collections of Schumann's Piano Concerto, Op.54
-- for downloading ;)

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