Ed Roland Quotes

The beet must be uprooted.

What love lays bare in me is energy.

Keep searchin’ for your mystery note on the universal piano of life.

Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die.

Painting can feign reality without having seen it.

I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know.

I'm a filmmaker, not a scientist.

A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.

To whom could I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought...?

If you have nothing to say for yourself then kindly keep your mouth shut!

How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?

Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant.

The author enters into his own death, writing begins.

To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.

Every exploration is an appropriation.

To eat steak rare . . . represents both a nature and a morality.

It would have cost me more trouble to escape from injustice, than it does to submit to it.

Every photograph is a certificate of presence.

The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.

He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.

To eat, to speak, to sing (need we add: to kiss?) are operations which have the same site of the body for origin.

The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance.

What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.

My heavenly citizenship makes the whole world a foreign mission field.

The only thing you'll find on the summit of Mount Everest is a divine view. The things that really matter lie far below.

Ennui is the disease of hearts without feeling, and of minds without resources.

What about a blues in W, in the key of W.

All it is, is a tone. So I'm gonna come back as a note!

You don't have to be alone to feel alone.

You are unfortunately most of the time defined by your success, when your success is not a major part of your personality.

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.

The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.

A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others; for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.

Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.

If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls.

I was not always free from melancholy; but even melancholy had its charms.

I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.

I think I'm actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things, but how it changes people depends on how they react to it.

Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.

The haiku reproduces the designating gesture of the child pointing at whatever it is (the haiku shows no partiality for the subject), merely saying: that!

It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.

We are hoping and praying that they will not be able to deny what the Lord has ordained.

I try to put in every one of my movies some sort of message. I don't want to overdo it, because I don't want people to get annoyed by it, but it's good to have a message.

Do not fear. Some things will never change.

Whereas the work is understood to be traceable to a source (through a process of derivation or "filiation"), the Text is without a source - the "author" a mere "guest" at the reading of the Text.

Thus every writer's motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am.

Why is it better to last than to burn?

Cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood.

All those young photographers who are at work in the world, determined upon the capture of actuality, do not know that they are agents of Death.

Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.