Best Festival Lines
221 Festival quotes by 187 unique authors
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Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.
— Henry Rollins
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Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food.…
— Jonathan Sacks
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The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to…
— Jonathan Sacks
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Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great.
— Amy Sedaris
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I danced with the London Festival at Covent Garden. I'm a ballerina by trade; I'm a ballerina who sings by the way.
— Jane Seymour
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The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.
— Kristin Scott Thomas
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Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would…
— Lewis Thomas
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I've been to two festivals in my life, and I've never been to Toronto. I haven't really been making festival movies. This is new territory…
— Joss Whedon
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Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan.
— Olivia Wilde
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I got nominated for my second film as best young director in the Aikido Film Festival in Japan.
— Donnie Yen
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Comic-Con has become more of a pop cultural festival, and to not be included feels like you're missing the biggest celebration of the year.
— Felicia Day
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Christmas it seems to me is a necessary festival; we require a season when we can regret all the flaws in our human relationships: it…
— Graham Greene
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Were not a festival band, playing during the day was something we had to get over, I was like uhh this sun stuff kind of…
— Gerard Way
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I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll…
— Paulo Coelho
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At the heart of the celebration, there are the poor. If [they] are excluded, it is not longer a celebration. [...] A celebration must always…
— Jean Vanier
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To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future -- a terrible festival of dead leaves.
— Anna Akhmatova
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The Truth Is That Existence Wants Your Life To Become A Festival Because When You Are Unhappy, You Also Throw Unhappiness All Around.
— Rajneesh
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Sin met Mae and Alan coming into the flat. Mae frowned. "Is it no-shirts festival day?" "Every day with Nick is no-shirts festival day," Alan…
— Sarah Rees Brennan
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Oh, if I had had a friend at this moment, a friend in an attic room, dreaming by candlelight and with a violin lying ready…
— Hermann Hesse
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A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life-raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the…
— Caitlin Moran
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Then I guess we cannot miss the famous festival in New Orleans," he found himself saying, just to take the shadows from her eyes. She…
— Christine Feehan
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Sybil tells me your little festival is an annual occurrence," she said, the cadence of her voice swooning like a lullaby. "Yes," Kai said, lifting…
— Marissa Meyer
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Kropp on the other hand is a thinker. He proposes that a declaration of war should be a kind of popular festival with entrance-tickets and…
— Erich Maria Remarque
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In the house of God there is never ending festival; the angel choir makes eternal holiday; the presence of God's face gives joy that never…
— Saint Augustine
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