Abbas Kiarostami Quotes

I feel like a tree. A tree doesn't feel a duty to start doing something about the earth from which it comes. A tree just has to bear fruit, and leaves and blossoms. It doesn't feel grateful to the earth.

Abbas Kiarostami

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: iranian
  • Birth: June 22, 1940 - July 4, 2016

Topics

TreeGratefulFruitStartDoing

Being Christian towards poor people means trying to improve their lives and give them back some self-respect.

Jo Brand

PeopleChristianTryingBackPoor

As young, hot actors living in Hollywood, you get even more attractive.

Jennifer Coolidge

YouYoungLivingHollywoodMoreHot

I love 'Scarface.'

Max Minghella

LoveI Love

It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.

Robert Hughes

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The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.

Jean Piaget

EducationKnowledgeMenNew Things

Only one American has given his life for Iranian democracy. He was a young idealist from Nebraska named Howard Baskerville. In 1907, fresh out of Princeton, Baskerville went to Iran as a schoolteacher. He found himself in the midst of a revolution against tyranny, and was carried away with passion for the democratic cause.

Stephen Kinzer

LifePassionDemocracyRevolution

During my own gap year, I learned an invaluable lesson - that I was a lousy teacher. Even though the children I 'taught,' in upcountry Uganda, were desperate for qualifications, they largely ignored me. Until, that is, I realised that they wanted to hear about other young persons around the world.

Simon Hoggart

ChildrenTeacherMeWorldYearOwn

My personal life is a source of incredible happiness for me, but it's personal, and it's not for me to hock or shop around to the highest bidder.

Matt Bomer

LifeHappinessMeLife Is APersonal

If you're not growing, you're dying, and I'm not ready for that.

Mary Steenburgen

YouReadyGrowingDying

There's always room to improve in a restaurant. A restaurant is better or worse every day than it was the day before. It's impossible not to be, because it's human.

Michael Mina

DayImpossibleRestaurantBetter

The sea does not belong to despots. Upon its surface men can still exercise unjust laws, fight, tear one another to pieces, and be carried away with terrestrial horrors. But at thirty feet below its level, their reign ceases, their influence is quenched, and their power disappears.

Jules Verne

SeaPowerMenFightInfluenceFeet

I'm not easily inhibited by the fact that I don't know something about a subject. It doesn't stop me from dabbling in it.

Joshua Lederberg

MeStopKnowSomethingFactSubject

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