Dean Devlin Quotes

As for 'Independence Day,' we never intended to do any films in that series beyond the first one.

Dean Devlin

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part a matter of the reciprocal interaction of new factual insights and knowledge on the one hand with changes in the theoretical system on the other.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • May
  • Knowledge
  • Hand

• I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • God
  • Think
  • Humor

• The majority of people who buy homes in golf course communities don't play golf. Golf is way down at the bottom in terms of total numbers and growth.

  

  Ed McMahon
  • People
  • Growth
  • Golf

• Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Good
  • Progress
  • Disagreement

• I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mother

• I don't know anyone, from any class, who's had a perfectly easy life. I've met people born into wealthy families who feel like they didn't have much emotional support, and people who come from working-class families who had loads of love but no money.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Money
  • Families

• I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • World
  • Believe
  • Potential

• Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Television
  • Try
  • Box

• The automatic bread maker is not as good as breads made by hand, but waking up to the smell of fresh bread is worth the price of admission. We use it for fresh cinnamon raisin toast - mmmmmmm!

  

  Irma S. Rombauer
  • Up
  • Good
  • Hand

• By the time I turned 18, I moved into a little chalet of my own and felt very grown-up.

  

  Mackenzie Phillips
  • Up
  • Time
  • Own

• I started buying vinyl records when I got into punk music because, in the punk scene in New Jersey, vinyl was more like a necessity than a luxury.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Music
  • Luxury
  • Punk

• I want to see 10 female rappers getting regular rotation. It can't be all about a man's opinion.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Want
  • Man
  • Opinion

• Pineapple reduces swelling.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Swelling

• I'm just fascinated by the past. You know, both by the possibilities it holds and by the complete tyranny of it, the way it sort of keeps you in this stranglehold and makes you want things that you no longer have and you can never get back.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Want
  • Past
  • Possibilities

• To be successful, you have to be willing to be successful. You have to believe in the law of attraction - that you create your own life.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Law

• If I needed to record, I'd head to the coast or Nashville, one or the other.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Head
  • Other
  • Nashville

• Bold ideas, unjustified anticipations, and speculative thought, are our only means for interpreting nature: our only organon, our only instrument, for grasping her. And we must hazard them to win our prize. Those among us who are unwilling to expose their ideas to the hazard of refutation do not take part in the scientific game.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Nature
  • Game
  • Bold

• Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.

  

  Cory Doctorow

• God, the supreme being, is neither circumscribed by space, nor touched by time; he cannot be found in a particular direction, and his essence cannot change. The secret conversation is thus entirely spiritual; it is a direct encounter between God and the soul, abstracted from all material constraints.

  

  Avicenna
  • Time
  • God
  • Soul

• A beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain.

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • Beautiful
  • Angel

• I believe that the development of language - of naming, categorization, conceptualization - destroys our ability to see as we age.

  

  Chris Ware
  • Believe
  • Age

• If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • World
  • Fire
  • Create

• He who is honest in his dealings simply because of the social prestige and position it secures will never develop his higher nature, but will always live along the lower lines.

  

  David Josiah Brewer
  • Live
  • Nature

• As for 'Independence Day,' we never intended to do any films in that series beyond the first one.

  

  Dean Devlin