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If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without ascending it, the work would have been permitted. — Franz Kafka

A fragmented film such as 'Babel' gives the impression of 'edginess' but, in its form, tells us nothing we didn't already know. — Garth Risk Hallberg

She would lift her peignoir above her knees and say to her husband: 'Give baby a kiss ... ' — Isaac Babel

Intelligence is the daughter of wisdom. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I've seen 'Babel' four times. And each time I realize anew what a monumental project that had been for me. — Rinko Kikuchi

Whatever truths or fables you may find in a thousand books, it is all a tower of Babel unless love holds it together. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Man's guilt in history and in the tides of his own blood has been complicated by technology, the daily seeping falsehearted death. — Don DeLillo

No iron can stab the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place. — Isaac Babel

It's translating for you. It's a Babel fish. Look it up in the book if you like. — Douglas Adams

A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers. — Alexander Smith

my cries were lost in the hell-born babel of the howling wind-wraiths. — H.P. Lovecraft

No iron spike can pierce a human heart as icily as a period in the right place. — Isaac Babel

Her sponge cakes had the aroma of crucifixion.Within them was the sap of slyness and the fragrant frenzy of the Vatican. — Isaac Babel

Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat,
To peep at such a world; to see the stir
Of the Great Babel, and not feel the crowd. — William Cowper

If the world could write by itself, it would write like Tolstoy. — Isaac Babel

'Amores Perros' is rock, '21 Grams' is jazz, 'Babel' is an opera, and 'Biutiful' is a requiem. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. — W. H. Auden

In a world without a destination, we cannot even break ground on our Tower of Babel, and no amount of rush and hurry on our part will change that. — Thomas Ligotti

Spontaneity, the hallmark of childhood, is well worth cultivating to counteract the rigidity that may otherwise set in as we grow older. — Gail Sheehy

While 'Babel' is a foreign-language film in some countries, in others, it is a local film. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

A well-thought-out story doesn't need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story. — Isaac Babel

If you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language. — Douglas Adams

No iron can pierce the human heart as chillingly as a full stop placed at the right time. — Isaac Babel

Two things can take you to the Moon: A space shuttle or a sweet love! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If the world could write itself, it would write like Tolstoy. — Isaac Babel

Men fear most what they cannot see. — Liam Neeson

There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair — Dante Alighieri

We monitor many frequencies. We listen always. Came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. It played us a mighty dub. — William Gibson

Madness and genius are two sides to the same coin. — John Hendy

There is no iron that can enter the human heart with such stupefying effect, as a period placed at just the right moment. — Isaac Babel

We must remember this when we are ready to reach for the sky.
God came down and confused man's language and scattered them. — Toba Beta

Everyone seemed eager to talk at once, and the result was Babel. — H.G.Wells

Films like 'Babel' can transcend the one point-of-view formula that has reigned for so long. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Love is not what you say; love is what you do — John Hagee

There's no such thing as soy milk. It's soy juice. — Lewis Black