Story Musgrave (Franklin Story Musgrave) Quotes
The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future. And if what you see in your future has no hope, it has no potential, then you view the past that brought you to here as not very good.
Quotes to Explore
-
Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
-
Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.
-
It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.
-
There are lots of actors who insist on speaking the lines themselves, and you hear the same thing from directors and the audience, but I don't think it's worth getting het up about. I think it makes more sense to use someone who speaks that country's language: that's what voice actors are for.
-
My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.
-
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
-
I have always despised people who thought they were better than others, and I made a promise to myself that I'd never turn into that kind of person. My family also helps to keep me grounded. Whenever I get a 'diva moment,' as they like to call it, they let me know it and say, 'Stop acting like a diva!' They're pretty good at it, too.
-
Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
-
The only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.
-
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
-
Retired Americans living on Social Security, exempt from taxes because their income is modest, are not the problem.
-
Regarding the Panama Canal Treaty negotiations, they will find us standing up or dead, but never on our knees; NEVER!
-
You can compromise between good, better, and best, and you can compromise between bad and worse and terrible. But you can't compromise between good and evil. And now people look at the other side as a completely different kind of animal and say, 'They are taking the country down the road to purgatory.' It's complete intolerance.
-
The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country, than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.
-
L'offenseur ne pardonne jamais.1
-
If you can measure your height from head to heaven, he is taller than you.
-
I like Lil Wayne.
-
When I think back to my childhood, I just think of the word 'freedom.' In the summers, we spent all day on the beach.
-
People don't want charities to usurp the state as the core provider of social services.
-
We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
-
Of these beginnings, gay and green, propose The suitable amours. Time will write them down.
-
Intelligence is loose in the galaxy. Power is in our hands, for better or worse. We can modify Nature’s rules, if we dare, but we cannot ignore her lessons.
-
A lot of [George Saunders] early stories now feel prophetic. Take the recent election [of Donald Trump]. Historians in 100 years might write about it as being the first internet election, in which what happened was actually an expression in the real world of a virtual reality. And you've been writing about that subject for a while.
-
The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future. And if what you see in your future has no hope, it has no potential, then you view the past that brought you to here as not very good.
