Without Quotes

"I have to shoot without any breaks. I yell at Herzog and hit him. I have to fight for every sequence. I wish Herzog would catch the plague, more than ever"

Klaus Kinski, Actor

"Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect"

Jose Marti, Activist

"A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel"

Jose Marti, Activist

"We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

"So it allows me to travel, I'll be doing that and running these great rivers and doing what I've done in the past without much purpose other than for the experience"

Richard Dean Anderson, Actor

"There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect"

Auguste Rodin, Sculptor

"All that running around in my underwear put money in my pockets. I can focus on working in interesting movies without having to worry about supporting myself"

Mark Wahlberg, Actor

"And when we used to play and fight in the streets in Brooklyn and I would get hurt or something, my mother would always come out and save me. So that sort of postponed the inevitable about getting a good beating, without having somebody to come and save you"

Sanford I. Weill, Businessman

"Sports is like a war without the killing"

Ted Turner, Businessman

"No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand"

George Sand, Novelist

"Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness"

George Sand, Novelist

"Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant?"

Marguerite Gardiner, Writer

"It is possible to spend one's entire lifetime without ever experiencing the mystical realms or even without being aware of their existence"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words"

Franz Liszt, Composer

"All of these reissues were not authorized by me, I do not endorse them, the live album was put out without my permission, and I've not seen a dime at this point, either"

Jello Biafra, Musician

"Our main task is not to see that people of great wealth add to it, but that those without much money have a greater chance to earn some"

Mitch Daniels, Politician

"Our position in Europe is not negotiable. The Greek people will defend it by all means. But participation in the euro involves rules and obligations, which we must consistently meet. Greece belongs to Europe and Europe cannot be envisaged without Greece"

Lucas Papademos, Politician

"When you're dealing with music without words, titles are more a means of identification than anything else. What's the point of getting lofty?"

Branford Marsalis, Musician

"It goes without saying that the Jewish people can have no other goal than Palestine and that, whatever the fate of the proposition may be, our attitude toward the land of our fathers is and shall remain unchangeable"

Theodor Herzl, Journalist

"The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you, o Liberty, do not know. you. Those who do not have you should not speak of you, but win you"

Jose Marti, Activist

"It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you"

Jose Marti, Activist

"Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours"

Mary Douglas, Scientist

"Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy"

Jose Marti, Activist

"I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou art. All that is without thee also is within"

William Drummond

"We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose, because each such taking diminishes the freedom to spend that dollar as its owner would prefer"

Mitch Daniels, Politician

"Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, without considering whether these processes are or are not accompanied by processes of consciousness"

Wilhelm Wundt, Psychologist

"Without literature my life would be miserable"

Naguib Mahfouz, Novelist

"Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without soaking anything up, it will dry up"

Ken Hill, Playwright

"Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all"

Jose Marti, Activist

"My own position is, that it is largely up to the work itself to suggest the nature of these referential points without dimensions in and through the processes by which the distance between them is maintained"

Brian Ferneyhough, Composer

"The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist"

Franz Liszt, Composer

"A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be"

Steven Brust, Author

"The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt"

John Heywood, Dramatist

"Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a society which by and large seems to manage quite well without them"

Brian Ferneyhough, Composer

"This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand"

Louise Slaughter, Politician

"And remember: without you, all we are is loud. No pressure"

Vivian Campbell, Musician

"With the CGI, suddenly there's a thousand enemies instead of six - the army goes off into the horizon. You don't need that. The audience loses its relationship with the threat on the screen. That's something that's consistently happening and it makes these movies like video games and that's a soulless enterprise. It's all kinetics without emotion"

Harrison Ford, Actor

"One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid"

James D. Watson, Scientist

"Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life"

Jean Paul, Author

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