Derek Jarman Quotes

It [the Sudetenland] is the last territorial claim that I have to make in Europe.

Englishmen must have an island.

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

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Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so deep in our genes that we can never get it out? Territoriality. My wife. My friend. My lover. My outrageous and annoying computer personality who's about to be shut off at the behest of a half-crazy girl with OCD on a planet that I never heard of and how will I live without [her] when she's gone?

It isn't humanly possible for the things radical leftists want to bring about the desired results that they choose. They claim they want a utopian happiness, and they are further and further away from it the more successful they are.

We are very much like them: indiscriminate killers, ruled by drives little acknowledged and less understood, mindlessly territorial and murderously jealous - the only significant difference being that they have yet to master our expertise in hypocrisy, the gift of our superior intellect that enables us to slaughter one another in droves, more often than not under the auspices of an approving god!

Our claim to our own bodies and our world is our catastrophe.

Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.

There has never been more at stake for women's health and rights.

Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others in their turn this indulgence.

We can only avoid the traps we can see.

If news is not really news unless it is bad news, it may be difficult to claim we are an informed nation

Such a blush In the midst of brown was born, Like red poppies grown with corn.

Up at the crank of dawn.

White men should exhibit the same insensibility to moral tortures that red men do to physical torments.

People have a sense of humor, even if it's not a good one, and everybody has stakes.

This is a new day. Begin anew to claim and create all that is good

As it turns out, sometimes that bites you. In this case, I saw pictures of Earl [Mills], and...I actually met him. He was quite old at the time, but he had this sort of curly red hair, so we did that in the film. I got a perm and had red hair, and... It was a mess.

Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert.

I know my face is turning red. I don't want you to interpret it as being embarrassed. It's rage. The color of my face is rage.

Precisely because we cannot predict the moment, we must be ready at all moments.

Ha, some days ago the same people were one hundred per cent sure that I'd signed for Red Bull! So much for that.

Men are like bulls. They cannot resist the red sole.

It's curious that only in Washington can you spend $2 billion and claim that you're saving money.