Max Brooks Quotes
You can watch 'Dawn of the Dead' and still sleep at night. Try that with 'The Day After'.
Max Brooks
Quotes to Explore
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You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.
Edgar Bergen
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To deal with what you have to deal with as mayor or president, there has to be an overriding psychological or professional or emotional gratification that would let you go through all the angst.
Rahm Emanuel
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People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.
Wayne Dyer
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Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.
Calamity Jane
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
Dana Brunetti
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A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.
Otto Hahn
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If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.
Barbara Hale
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As an actor, you arrive most of the time at the last minute. You arrive at the end of the process, but you don't realize it.
Karine Vanasse
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Each of my books is different from the last, each with its own characters, its own setting, its own themes. As a writer, I need the variety. I sense my readers do, too.
Barbara Delinsky
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As a science fiction fan, I had always assumed that when computers supplemented our intelligence, it would be because we outsourced some of our memory to them. We would ask questions, and our machines would give oracular - or supremely practical - replies.
Gary Wolf
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I like to stand out and make a statement.
Cindy Gallop
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Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to.
David Cronenberg
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Now I must give one smirk and then we may be rational again...
Jane Austen
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There had come to him one of those moments of quiet despair that lie in wait for even the happiest. Stealthy-footed they leap upon us, as we walk along the street, as we sit at evening with fruit and wine upon the table and laughter on our lips, as we wake suddenly from sleep in the hour before dawn; neither at our work nor our play nor our prayers are we safe, those moments can leap at any time out of the blackness around human life and suddenly the colors that we have nailed to our mast are there no longer and all that we have grasped is dust.
Elizabeth Goudge
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You can watch 'Dawn of the Dead' and still sleep at night. Try that with 'The Day After'.
Max Brooks
