Douglas Trumbull Quotes

I took IMAX public back in the early '90s.

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• People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • People
  • Man
  • Hell

• I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Friends
  • Man
  • Nice

• Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • American
  • War
  • Wisdom

• I don't do a film unless it has a sword in it. And if it doesn't have a sword in it, I insist that they have one in the same room to keep me comfortable.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Me
  • Same
  • Sword

• Money often costs too much.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Money
  • Too Much
  • Often

• So when I had to make a decision whether I would like to do honors degree course in Islamic studies and Malay studies too, so I thought Islamic studies would be good.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Good
  • Decision
  • Thought

• So we all got basically what we wanted, and as far as the women are concerned, he figured that 30 good women could handle a crew of 300 anyway. So that's how we ended up with our crew.

  

  Majel Barrett
  • Up
  • Good
  • Women

• We live in a changing world, but we need to be reminded that the important things have not changed, and the important things will not change if we keep our priorities in proper order.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • World
  • Important
  • Live

• I was greatly influenced by musique concrete when I was, like, 10. I was completely mesmerized by the idea that you could make music out of sounds. So that's been a constant influence on all my work.

  

  Walter Murch
  • Work
  • Music
  • Influence

• My all-time low is 62 at Bel-Air, but it was in match play, and I had two putts given to me from four feet. I'm playing only about once or twice a month. Full-time job. Full-time father. Full-time blonde.

  

  Jack Wagner
  • Time
  • Job
  • Father

• I have to strive to go two steps forward and realize that, sometimes, there will be one step back.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Sometimes
  • Step
  • Realize

• Anyone who has problems, or worries, anyone who laughs and cries, anyone who feels can write. It's only talking on paper... talking about the things that matter to us.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Matter
  • Write
  • Problems

• There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Art
  • Politics
  • Literature

• I play only classical music. My pianos are my only big indulgence, but they're a necessity. When I'm playing the piano is literally the only time I can be completely abstract and disconnected from the regular world and yet be connected - to my music.

  

  Rafael Vinoly
  • Time
  • World
  • Music

• Ike runs the country, and I turn the pork chops.

  

  Mamie Eisenhower
  • Country
  • Turn
  • Pork

• Breakfast had been prepared by the kitchen maid, an indifferent performer who had used the scorched earth policy on the bacon again.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Earth
  • Kitchen
  • Breakfast

• The dullness of fact is the mother of fiction.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Mother

• Jam on cause Backstreet's got itCome on now everybodyWe've got it goin' on for years.

  

  Backstreet Boys

• When, and how, and at what stage of our development did spirituality and our strange notions of religion arise? the need for worship which is nothing more than our frightened refuge into propitiation of a Creator we do not understand? A detective story, the supreme Who-done-it, written in indecipherable hieroglyphics, no Rosetta stone supplied by the consummate Mystifier to tease us poor fumbling unravellers of his plot.

  

  Vita Sackville-West
  • Women
  • Religion
  • Strange

• I really think we should pass a law in every state, I don't care whether it takes the independence away from an old person or not. You shouldn't be driving a car if you're over the age of 80. Maybe even less than that.

  

  Evel Knievel
  • Think
  • Car
  • Driving

• I didn't actually know what a vegetarian was until I was 13 years old. I know in this day and age it's hard to believe that, but I think because I grew up on a farm, I wasn't indulged in magazines, newspapers, Internet, television. And so, for some reason, I was never exposed to what a vegetarian was.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Age

• My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society.

  

  Andrew Weil
  • World
  • May
  • Beautiful

• We now know too much about matter to be materialists. The very essence of the physical order of things is that it creates nothing new. Change is never more than a redistribution of that which never changes. But sensibility belongs to the world of consciousness, not to the world of matter.

  

  Arthur Balfour
  • World

• I took IMAX public back in the early '90s.

  

  Douglas Trumbull