David S. Goyer Quotes

'Batman Begins' came out and it was really successful, and it had gritty naturalism. And suddenly... I can't tell you how many movies I was pitched where it was, 'We want to do what you did with 'Batman' but with 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' or whatever.

David S. Goyer

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• Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • Experience
  • Ideas

• By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.

  

  Samuel Chase
  • Government
  • Christian
  • Religious

• The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • True
  • Believer
  • Rewarded

• My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • She
  • Father
  • Me

• My running style was kind of just head-on, because I couldn't dance.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Running
  • Kind
  • Style

• I am so lucky that throughout my career I've been able to play such different characters.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Career
  • Play
  • Characters

• Buying found objects means repurposing something that was already made years before, sometimes decades before. It strikes a nice balance between the new and used equation we should strive for in our lives.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Nice
  • Sometimes
  • Balance

• Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Genius
  • Rules

• 'Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.' He laughed. 'But don't let me down and become human yourself. We would lose a wonderful machine.'

  

  Ian Fleming

• Wasting our time? This is a waste of time, to live in peace and plenty with my wife and children? May I waste the rest of my life, then.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• Many progressive economists insist that gold is now in essentially the same position as silver and that the arguments the simon-pure gold advocates use against the white metal can be directed with equal effect against their own fetish.

  

  Benjamin Graham
  • Gold

• I always look back and say I should have made more. It should have been more lucrative, but it wasn't.

  

  Donald Dunn

• The 'Being Human' people were really cool and let me improvise. They had such a good working atmosphere. It was a cool set-up and a really good environment to be in.

  

  Craig Roberts
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• That Germany was so immensely strong and Austria so dependent upon German strength that the word and will of Germany would at the critical moment be decisive with Austria.

  

  Edward Grey
  • Strong
  • German

• Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

  

  Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Time
  • Great
  • Age

• There weren't a lot of 'Singin' in the Rain' fans in my age group.

  

  Jean Louisa Kelly
  • Age
  • Rain

• When there is a situation where one does not see demand for a year or two, then capex is suspended. It will reverse only when the situation improves.

  

  Jamshyd Godrej

• I am very happy because motor racing is very important outside the states, very big all over the world.

  

  Emerson Fittipaldi
  • World
  • Important
  • Happy

• It's typical for people living in nonurban areas to drive 100 miles to go to work, to the grocery store or to the doctor.

  

  Cynthia Lummis
  • People
  • Work

• My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Work
  • Inspiration
  • Musicians

• I had always been a fan of Nas, but I never met him. This is the one guy in the industry who's, like, the phantom rapper.

  

  Kelis Rogers
  • Guy

• Forget 'full of myself,' I'm not remotely impressed with myself.

  

  Jeff Garlin

• When I met Paul Ryan 22 years ago, he was a student at Miami of Ohio volunteering on my campaign.

  

  John Boehner

• 'Batman Begins' came out and it was really successful, and it had gritty naturalism. And suddenly... I can't tell you how many movies I was pitched where it was, 'We want to do what you did with 'Batman' but with 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' or whatever.

  

  David S. Goyer
  • Batman