Festivals Quotes

Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great.

I get invited to many more literary festivals than I used to because I'm associated with 'Slumdog Millionaire,' the brand. Many more doors have opened up for me as a result of the global success of the film, although I believe that I'm the same person that existed before it.

I danced with the London Festival at Covent Garden. I'm a ballerina by trade; I'm a ballerina who sings by the way.

Martin's Monsanto poem holds devastating power. I heard the first public reading at the Resurgence Festival of well-being in London. It brought truth with clarity, not least with a kind of conviction and passion that is all too rare

Live every day as if it is a festival. Turn your life into a celebration

The greatness of a culture can be found in its festivals

For the wise man, every day is a festival.

If extravagance were a fault, it would not have a place in the festivals of the gods.

Life is a happy thing, a festival to be enjoyed rather than a drudgery to be endured.

I always go to the Cannes Film Festival and it's just such a glamorous time.

For every rockabilly festival staged here, there are 10 held overseas.

As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future -- a terrible festival of dead leaves.

I got nominated for my second film as best young director in the Aikido Film Festival in Japan.

I went to the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan because I love Japanese cinema.

Festivals become a family because you start seeing the same people.

Festivals are weird, you never know what to expect so it's a bit more nerve wracking then playing your own show.

I listen to all types of different music. I go to different festivals. I'm around music.

Be merry, really merry. The life of a true Christian should be a perpetual jubilee, a prelude to the festivals of eternity.

Bringing production to a festival can be tricky sometimes.

Well I was on the jury duty on the Deauville Film Festival, a few years ago.

Only in Texas can mesquite have its own festival, then there's a crawfish festival, a festival for strawberries, everything has its own festival, with each town having their own yearly thing.

The festivals are cool because you make a lot of connections at the festivals.

Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered, it is the fourth of Seventh-month, (what salutes of cannon and small arms!

Live interaction with a crowd is a cathartic, spiritual kind of exchange, and its intensified at a festival.

Frank Sinatra was very devoted to what it was he did. At the end of his life, what he had left - there have been accolades, mementos, festivals, superlatives, all that stuff. He's done movies, TV, done this, done that - what he had left was a love of his audience, and that kept him alive.

The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.

Splashing about in mud in the cold is not my thing. I made an attempt to go to the Isle Of Wight Festival in 1969 when Bob Dylan was playing, but we never made it. We hired a boat from Lymington, but got lost, and by the time we got there the music was over. I wasn't too sad, to be honest.

Stay well away from the enemies of Allâh during their festivals.

Going to see Godzilla at the Palais of the Cannes Film Festival is like attending a satanic ritual in St. Peter's Basilica.

A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival.

We're playing all these weird festivals, usually outdoors.

I hadn't done a comedy for a while. I had directed a very low budget movie called The Ape and it was playing at a festival in Austin. Judd [Apatow] was there and he came and saw it and it's kind of funny.

When I first saw The Black Kat Boppers I was sat on a hill at a festival and could hear this music in a tent that literally grabbed me by the lapels and dragged me in

The moon has become a dancer at this festival of LOVE.

At the heart of the celebration, there are the poor. If [they] are excluded, it is not longer a celebration. [...] A celebration must always be a festival of the poor.

The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.

Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.

We enjoyed the fact that we were called to the folk festivals and we got to know Joan Baez, Dylan. We were singing strictly gospel, but then after we started hearing songs that they would sing, we saw that those songs were very fitting for us because they were singing the truth, and truth is gospel.

Teller and I worked Renaissance Festivals and street performing - actually more real, no kidding around, Philadelphia street performing than we did Renaissance Festivals.

Pontus, instituted among all people, as an addition or corollary of devotion towards God, that festival days and assemblies should be celebrated to them who had contended for the faith (that is, to lie martyrs ).

Death is the supreme festival on the road to freedom.

That was very close to getting killed. Usually at pop festivals we have people jumping on stage.

Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches and in punishment there is so much that is festive!

I've always been dead set against festivals, really suspicious and wary.

Wagner festival was [Adolf Hitler] time with the Wagner family. [Eva Braun] asked once to attend but he forbade it and that was that, she never asked again.

Still, as much as I wish Ballistic Kiss could be a better film, the recognition it gained from critics and at festivals speaks for itself.

I'll never forget the first screening at the Berlin Film Festival. As soon as the film ended there was an outbreak of booing, which made us look at each other with some surprise.

This is our festival and on this day we are all Indians. We celebrate the festival by maintaining the spirit of brotherhood.

Film festivals are a great vehicle for gaining an audience for your film, for exposure for the talent in the film and for the film makers to leverage opportunities for their films. I love the energy that film festivals bring.

I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows' and it was about a company based around the Stratford Festival.