Joseph Barbera Quotes

Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can't take the process too personally.

Joseph Barbera

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• There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Genius
  • Insanity
  • Line

• When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Man
  • Myself
  • Young

• Teens want to read something that isn't a lie; we adults wish we could put our heads under the blankets and hide from the scary story we're writing for our kids.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Writing
  • Kids
  • Wish

• I do not believe in populism. I am not a supporter of radical decisions. Practice has shown that usually these are harmful.

  

  Valentina Matviyenko
  • Believe
  • Practice
  • Decisions

• We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Live
  • Age
  • Knowledge

• I guess I don't take my stardom too seriously. I think I am one of the guys.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Seriously
  • Stardom

• My best jokes are so cheap. All I do is say things sarcastically.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Best
  • Things
  • Jokes

• No man shall be more exacting of me or my conduct than I am of myself.

  

  Karl G. Maeser
  • Conduct
  • Exacting

• I've never worked for a show or was on a show where I didn't have a lot of control creatively, but then again, I haven't worked on a lot of shows.

  

  H. Jon Benjamin
  • Control
  • Never
  • Where

• When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Think
  • Man
  • Woman

• Our great object of glorifying God is to be mainly achieved by the winning of souls... Do not close a single sermon without addressing the ungodly.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • Great
  • God
  • Single

• Things can end badly, as they sometimes do in life. But if they do, then we know that something is wrong, just as we know it when a piece of music doesn’t resolve itself properly at the end. We know that. We just do. And so we prefer harmony.

  

  Alexander McCall Smith
  • Life
  • Music

• 'I hear you are going to In-jea. A most interesting country. I had a very good time there in my early youth. You must do the pig-sticking in Rajasthan. And you will find the people most agreeable in their own way. They have been most uncommonly decent to my niece.' (Galbraith, Ambassador’s Journal, 36)

  

  Edward VIII
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on.

  

  Mary Douglas
  • Good
  • God
  • True

• It usually takes about a year to write each book. I don't plan it that way. I don't set deadlines. If a book wants to take longer, it can.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Book

• You never find virtuosity for its own sake.

  

  Daniel Hope

• Women need to become conscious of the impact that their attitudes and actions can have on future generations of voters and politicians.

  

  Cheryl Mills
  • Women
  • Future

• There does exist and has existed for a generation, an international Anglophile network which operates, to some extent, in the way the radical Right believes the Communists act. In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and frequently does so. I know of the operations of this network because I have studied it for 20 years and was permitted for two years, in the early 1960s, to examine its papers and secret record.

  

  Carroll Quigley
  • Believe
  • Money
  • Politics

• I operate from a place of delusion-that’s what the Fame is all about... I want people to walk around delusional about how great they can be - and then to fight so hard for it every day that the lie becomes the truth.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Great
  • Truth

• If the ancient churches, in debating and deciding the greatest mysteries of religion, knew nothing of these two texts, I understand not why we should be so fond of them now the debate is over.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Religion
  • Ancient
  • Churches

• What Heaven detests, who knows why? Even the sage considers it difficult.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Heaven
  • Considers
  • Detests

• Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can't take the process too personally.

  

  Joseph Barbera