Jean Genet Quotes

I knew he was getting ready to go kill children.

Museums are custodians of epiphanies, and these epiphanies enter the central nervous system and deep recesses of the mind.

'Sairat' is a film I absolutely loved. I have great regard for the movie and its film-maker. The movie blew my mind.

I have celebrated Jamai Sasthi before marriage.

Samskrit language, as has been universally recognized by those competent to form a judgment, is one of the most magnificent, the most perfect, the most prominent and wonderfully sufficient literary instrument developed by the human mind.

But to my mind, though I am native here, And to the manner born, it is a custom, More honored in the breach than the observance.

The genius of the primitive mind is that it can render human helplessness in noble and beautiful ways.

I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a religion.

Did you know that there is no exact rhyme in the Russian language for the word 'pravda'? Ponder and weigh this insufficiency in your mind. Doesn't that just echo down the canyons of your soul?

For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation. As National Socialists we are dedicated to working with boldness, but also with love of the Volk and our landscape in mind. These roads do not serve transportation alone, they also bind our Fatherland. In these highways our engineering will reflect the National Socialist movement.

Tonight, there will be a sacrafice!

Every age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward or forward, attains to an eternal state.

If the item of stolen property had been anything other than a book, it would have been confiscated. But a book is different - it is not just a material possession but the pathway to an enlightened mind, and thence to a well-ordered society.

I would keep in mind to a young poet that you are entering into something that is very important, that has always been important in terms of human concerns.

That.s what Jazz music is all about.We started the Messengers because somebody had to mind the store for jazz.No America--no Jazz. It is the only culture that America has brought forth.

To the Indian mind there is nothing higher than religious ideals, that this is the keynote of Indian life.

Music [is] a science peculiarly productive of a pleasure that no state of life, publick or private, secular or sacred; no difference of age or season; no temper of mind or condition of health exempt from present anguish; nor, lastly, distinction of quality, renders either improper, untimely, or unentertaining.

Samskrit has moulded the minds of our people to the extent to which they themselves are not conscious. Samskrit literature is national in one sense, but its purpose has been universal. That was why it commanded the attention of people who were not followers of a particular culture.

I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him.

Modern dance isn't anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.

If the monarchy were removed tomorrow, it wouldn't have a huge effect on the national mind-set. The monarchy is mildly interesting and largely harmless. I can't find I can get very heated about it. In the next couple of generations, it is bound to go. There is so much else in the world that is more interesting.

Wherever there is animal worship, there is human sacrifice.

The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the one somebody tried to get very cute with; the one that really bothers them is the murder somebody only thought of two minutes before he pulled it off.

A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.

Reading poetry and reading the great works of the canon that we were reading in the '60s and the '70s and '80s was mind altering.