David S. Goyer Quotes

I think if we ever encountered aliens, even communicating with them would be really, really difficult.

David S. Goyer

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• I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Why
  • Want
  • Television

• The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • World
  • Literature
  • Better

• I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • College
  • Football
  • Sports

• I also didn't consider myself a huge baby person.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Myself
  • Person
  • Baby

• A friend told me that teenage girls are always looking for someone to pin their dreams on. That doesn't make it any less weird though.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Me
  • Friend
  • Weird

• There are over 1 million refugees in Lebanon, a country of 4 million people. How do we solve that? I have no idea. What's going on, I really don't know.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • People
  • Country
  • Know

• The real reform Japan needs is decisive politics when we face issues that need to be decided.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Real
  • Politics
  • Face

• My mom always knew I was going to be an actor because I was a ham from the very beginning, so she would push me toward it, which is really unconventional for Indian families to do.

  

  Aarti Mann
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Beginning

• Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Want
  • Success
  • Happiness

• I haven't deliberately set out to play the blonde bombshell in my movies. In fact, it's probably been quite the opposite. After the success of The Mask, I wasn't offered all that many blonde bombshell parts, to be honest. I think people believed from the beginning that I could actually walk and talk at the same time.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • People
  • Time
  • Success

• In fact, we have a choice of freedom of heart to follow God.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Heart
  • Freedom

• Heroes in drama are people who try hard to reach a virtuous ideal. And whether they succeed or fail really doesn't matter - it's the trying that counts.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Trying
  • Drama

• I am human like everyone else. I am aware that there are people who look up to me. When mistakes are made, they aren't intentional, and I constantly push myself to be a better person.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • People
  • Mistakes
  • Constantly

• Ben, that funeral will be massive! They'll come from Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire! All the old-timers with the strange license plates - that boy will be thunderstruck, Ben, because he never realized - I am known! Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey - I am known, Ben, and he'll see it with his eyes once and for all.

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Eyes
  • Boy
  • Funeral

• The music ends. The screen grows dark. We hurryTo go our devious secret ways, forgettingThose many lives . . . We loved, we laughed, we killed,We danced in fire, we drowned in a whirl of sea-waves.The flutes are stilled, and a thousand dreams are stilled.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Music
  • Dark
  • Fire

• Shall we be destined to the days of eternity, on holy-days, as well as working-days, to be showing the relics of learning, as monks do the relics of their saints - without working one - one single miracle with them?

  

  Laurence Sterne
  • Single
  • Learning
  • Miracle

• I was really disappointed with the lack of respect from the UFC towards Brazilian athletes.

  

  Anderson Silva
  • Respect

• You increase muscle bulk by training against resistance. For example, weights. And in ballet, this isn't the case.

  

  Deborah Bull
  • Training
  • Ballet

• The draft not being exceptionally deep, you basically take the best player available.

  

  Anne Donovan
  • Player
  • Deep

• Just to have that sense of family, it gives you something that you know you need to take care of for the rest of your life. People gave it to him, and he passed it on to us.

  

  Benny Green
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, 'Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love.'

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Life
  • Work
  • Happy

• Fortunately, for the first 20 years in my career, I didn't have any other responsibilities outside of myself. I didn't have a wife and kids, so I could afford to sort of barely scrape by, to do theater.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Kids
  • Career
  • Wife

• I think if we ever encountered aliens, even communicating with them would be really, really difficult.

  

  David S. Goyer