David S. Goyer Quotes
It's ironic: In movies, the most successful films of all time have been sci-fi or fantasy. By far. But a lot of people won't even read science fiction books.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm a breakfast type of guy. Don't get me wrong. I can cook, I'm kinda nice on the burner, but I enjoy making breakfast. I do it all... Scrambled eggs... French toast... Pancakes... Breakfast is my thing.
-
When I was in college, I learned to really take care of my body and figured out what works best for me and what doesn't work for me when it comes to my nutrition. That helped so much on the field because soccer is such a fitness-oriented game.
-
The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
-
The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
-
I try and find fun activities like mountain biking, hiking, or water sports for a workout rather than pushing weight in the gym.
-
I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
-
I've been a fan of Burberry for a very long time and they've been so supportive of me for many years.
-
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
-
Let the path be open to talent.
-
What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
-
I really, really enjoy comedy. I think that's one of my strong suits. It's my zone. And people don't expect it from me, which is a whammy.
-
Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.
-
It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
-
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
-
I have deep emotions about the American people. If I were to cry for anything, I would cry for them and the policies that they're about to face.
-
I was shocked when I heard that Farghadani had been sentenced to 12 years and nine months in prison on spurious charges, as Amnesty International notes, of 'spreading propaganda against the system,' 'insulting members of the parliament through paintings' and 'insulting the Supreme Leader' with her cartoon.
-
The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.
-
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
-
In 2007 I was at Facebook, and we looked at some of the social networks in Asia, and they were full of games.
-
I wore a blue spandex outfit and a gold belt. It was goofy and off-the-wall, but I love doing things like that.
-
When NBC bought USA and SCI FI in 2004, Jeff Zucker put me in charge of USA Networks. We did a lot of research to find out what was working and what wasn't, and we actually had to hear a lot of things we didn't like. USA was predictable; it was boring.
-
What I kind of want to spread as my message to all kinds of youth that I get to reach out to is, you can do cool stuff; you've just got to put in time and be dedicated.
-
Sometimes the characters I find the most compelling are in independent movies. With independent scripts people can take more challenges.
-
It's ironic: In movies, the most successful films of all time have been sci-fi or fantasy. By far. But a lot of people won't even read science fiction books.
