Eric Kripke Quotes

Every so often, you want to map out your plot mythology but never so specifically that you can't let a story surprise you. You want to allow the type of action of the writer's room so that you have the ability to take a left turn.

Eric Kripke

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• My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Action

• Rushing to war is not a wise course of action.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Action
  • Wise

• Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.

  

  Harold Washington
  • Political
  • Action
  • Place

• Bitcoin and the block chain enables a whole new way to incentivize and transact, so change the world with this new tool. Create and build! Surprise us with an idea we have never seen before.

  

  Adam Draper
  • World
  • Change
  • Surprise

• I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • Done
  • Character
  • Past

• Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Action
  • Thought
  • Human

• All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • People
  • Character
  • Action

• I've gone out on limbs, flung far, and Forrest-Gumped my way into the center of the action.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Way
  • Action
  • Far

• The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Action
  • Happiness
  • Feelings

• When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Law
  • Community
  • Action

• You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders.

  

  Florence Ellinwood Allen
  • Women
  • Action
  • Politics

• Linda Hamilton is my hero. She was so tough and so strong and so vulnerable at the same time. I think that's what woman action figures are allowed to be: vulnerable, in a way that women are.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Time
  • Women
  • She

• Right now, there are nearly 30 jobs bills passed by the House with support from both Republicans and Democrats that are awaiting action in the Democratic-run Senate.

  

  Nan Hayworth
  • House
  • Action
  • Support

• By sincerity, a man gains physical, mental and linguistic straightforwardness, and harmonious tendency; that is, congruence of speech and action.

  

  Mahavira
  • Man
  • Action
  • Speech

• I quite like the element of surprise, and as much as I have my ideas, I always appreciate ideas that come from other people as well, and I love the mystery of not knowing.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Like
  • Ideas
  • Knowing

• I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my Definite Purpose in life, therefore, I DEMAND of myself persistent, continuous action toward its attainment, and I here and now promise to render such action.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Action
  • Purpose

• I don't know if I'd do an action movie because I don't know if I could keep a straight face; honestly, I just think it's so silly. Like, I love watching them but I can't imagine me doing one.

  

  Chris O'Dowd
  • Movie
  • Action
  • Silly

• At any moment, one company stands in the spotlight of the middle ring in the stock market's never-ending circus. It may not be the biggest corporation in the world, or the most profitable, but somehow it both mirrors and leads the market's broader action.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • World
  • May
  • Action

• In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual.

  

  William Robertson Smith
  • People
  • Religion
  • Mythology

• Just as many people that love me, hate me, too. I get really mean, mean, mean, mean comments on Twitter, and it just comes with the territory.

  

  Keke Palmer
  • People
  • Hate

• In terms of competitiveness of new global environment, Kenya will have absolutely no choice but to tackle the most important constraint to its development: it has been corruption.

  

  Obiageli Ezekwesili
  • Important
  • Environment
  • Corruption

• When you were under contract, you did what you were told to do.

  

  Debbie Reynolds

• An independent Brooklyn probably would have built a new stadium for the Dodgers, so today there might be not just baseball but also the only football team on this side of the Hudson.

  

  Pete Hamill
  • Today
  • Team
  • Football

• Every so often, you want to map out your plot mythology but never so specifically that you can't let a story surprise you. You want to allow the type of action of the writer's room so that you have the ability to take a left turn.

  

  Eric Kripke
  • Action
  • Surprise
  • Mythology