wise  words

 

John Keating in Dead Poets Society, Dir. Peter Weir, 1989:
"No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world."

Larry Kramer in Lawrence D.  Mass, We must love one another or die, 1997:
"Perhaps each of us has to create our own history of the world. One that we can live with. And learn how to accept that my history of the world is different from your history of the world"

George Bernhard Shaw, Back to Methuselah, 1921:
"You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'"

Calvero in Limelight, Dir Charles Chaplin, 1952:
"That's all any of us are: amateurs. We don't live long enough to be anything else."

Orlando in Orlando, Dir Sally Potter, 1992:
"Same person. No difference at all... just a different sex."

Madonna, Sex, 1992:
"A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want."

Sarah Beckett in Philadelphia, Dir Jonathan Demme, 1993:
"I didn't raise my kids to sit in the back of the bus. Get in there and you fight for your rights, okay?"

Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862:
"There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow."

Larry Kramer in Ed. Lawrence D.  Mass, We must love one another or die, 1997:
"You can't not go forward and say what you think just because of what you fear might or might not happen"

Andrew Beckett in Philadelphia, Dir Jonathan Demme, 1993:
"Every problem has a solution."