David S. Goyer Quotes

What I really like to do is write 'genre' stories without a cartoonish element. I did the same with 'Da Vinci's Demons,' and I'll do the same with 'Man of Steel.'

David S. Goyer

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• My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Parents
  • Lessons
  • Expected

• Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries since World War II.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Up
  • World
  • War

• Have I done more business-related things to help my career grow? Yeah. I took the business end more seriously, hooked up with a manager, got some help, because at a certain point, you get frustrated when you go do auditions, and people say you did a great job, and then you don't get he part.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• I've felt ugly and insecure.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Ugly
  • Felt
  • Insecure

• If you think about racing too much you may just lose it a little bit.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • May
  • Think
  • Lose

• Originally I was opposed to gay assimilation and targeted gay marriage as just another effort on the part of gays to resemble their straight neighbours.

  

  Edmund White
  • Marriage
  • Effort
  • Gay

• And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Optimism

• Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Children
  • Age
  • Party

• I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you creatively. If you think too hard about who other people want you to be as an artist, it stops you from being who you want to be as an artist.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Want
  • Artist

• I'm a huge David Lindsay-Abaire fan. If I could write, I would want to write like him.

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Want
  • Like
  • Write

• The Germans form one of the most important branches of the Indo-Germanic or Aryan race - a division of the human family which also includes the Hindoos, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Celts, and the Slavonic tribes.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Important
  • Family
  • Most

• It's not healthy for the country to have parties with polar opposite views without that bridge that you need to build consensus.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Country
  • Bridge

• Love is random; fear is inevitable.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Fear
  • Random

• I'm not the man to baulk at a low smell,I’m not the man to insist on asphodel.This sounds like a He-fellow, don’t you think?It sounds like that. I belch, I bawl, I drink.

  

  Edith Sitwell

• I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.

  

  Frederik Pohl
  • Pretty
  • Science
  • Catholic

• Damn, I had some great moves. I still have them; I'm just not using them at home a lot.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • Great
  • Home

• At this stage, most of the awards I get are concerned with my longevity. Even I'm amazed at myself because there have been new generations since I've been born and new music that they create, so it's amazing to still be on the radar.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • Music
  • Amazing

• I am very bad at drawing. Seriously. I can draw shoes. That's about it.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Bad
  • Shoes
  • Drawing

• Before I write the first page of a novel, I spend a long time creating detailed backgrounds for my characters. I imagine the experiences that have formed them, what makes them happy, angry, fearful, and what they yearn for.

  

  Lisa Kleypas
  • Time
  • Long
  • Happy

• Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.

  

  George Bancroft
  • God

• I'm not really a blockbuster, I'm not a member of that audience really.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Audience
  • Member
  • Blockbuster

• Love why do we one passion call, When 'tis a compound of them all? Where hot and cold, where sharp and sweet, In all their equipages meet; Where pleasures mix'd with pains appear, Sorrow with joy, and hope with fear.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Hope
  • Sorrow
  • Meet

• Being sexy, to me, is possessing the full package: the brains, the drive, inner confidence, spiritual foundation, a positive attitude, proceeding through obstacles, making a positive contribution to the world, and maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

  

  Mya
  • Attitude
  • Sexy
  • Lifestyle

• What I really like to do is write 'genre' stories without a cartoonish element. I did the same with 'Da Vinci's Demons,' and I'll do the same with 'Man of Steel.'

  

  David S. Goyer