Ed Greenwood Quotes
Over the years, Forgotten Realms and gaming have taken me all over the world and made me all sorts of new friends.
Quotes to Explore
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Why is it that our young kids all across America can solve the most complex problems in a video game involving executive decision making and analytical thinking, yet we accept the fact that they can't add or read?
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
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A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.
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But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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Mark Twain cannot be defined.
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If studying the periodic table taught me nothing else, it's that the credulity of human beings for periodic table panaceas is pretty much boundless.
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Every day is like Halloween or Christmas eve for me. I go to bed, and I'm so excited to get back to work. I'm very lucky that I have a career like that 'cause not many people do.
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I'd love to make a thriller.
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I'll never be, like, sippy cup country, or write about everything I do around the house.
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I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.
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I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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Anonymous is not an organization. It is an idea, a zeitgeist, coupled with a set of social and technical practices.
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All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.
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Anywhere the struggle is great, the level of ingenuity and inventiveness is high.
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The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
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Over the years, Forgotten Realms and gaming have taken me all over the world and made me all sorts of new friends.
