Jeff Vandermeer Quotes
Trump lays bare a lot of things already wrong with our society. But he also accelerates the process of it becoming worse, when it could be getting better.Jeff Vandermeer
Quotes to Explore
-
Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?
Barton Gellman -
In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.
Yayoi Kusama -
Happiness is an inside job.
Edd Byrnes -
If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
Eden Phillpotts -
We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right.
Wendell Mayes
-
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
Isaac Asimov -
It's very scary to me that people actually think we should just follow our leaders. If we can't learn from our history, we're nowhere.
Natalie Maines -
Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
Gary Johnson -
A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
Patrick Murray -
Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power.
Walter Russell Mead -
Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
Saadi
-
Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
Yogi Berra -
You can finish the day's filming or the whole shoot or watch something months later and think you could have done it so much better. It's frustrating.
Natasha Little -
The problem with pity parties is very few people come, and those who do don't bring presents.
Zig Ziglar -
I genuinely liked all of the cast members very much. Steve had a wicked sense of humor. I remember Russell coming to my rescue, once. I watched Eric evolve before everyone's eyes. Maurice loved what he did, so. He treated his character with respect, down to the costuming.
Madeleine Stowe -
The home funeral - caring for the dead ourselves - changes our relationship to grieving. If you have been married to someone for 50 years, why would you let someone take them away the moment they die?
Caitlin Doughty -
With our evolved busy hands and our evolved busy brains, in an extraordinarily short period of time we've managed to alter the earth with such geologic-forcing effects that we ourselves are forces of nature. Climate change, ocean acidification, the sixth mass extinction of species.
Kate Bernheimer
-
I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people's poet so I write for the people.
Maya Angelou -
I'm not into girls.
Adrianne Palicki -
The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -
I knew exactly how I wanted it to play, but you are never sure until you watch the projected images reflect off the screen. That's when you know it worked.
Conrad Hall -
I like to think of criticism as the highest intellectual effort that mankind is capable of, and above all, I like to think of self-criticism as the most difficult attainment of an educated man.
Lin Yutang -
Trump lays bare a lot of things already wrong with our society. But he also accelerates the process of it becoming worse, when it could be getting better.
Jeff Vandermeer