Mike Quigley Quotes
Anyone who has ever asked for directions knows you need two crucial pieces of information to get good results: a starting point and a destination.
Quotes to Explore
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I love to have no plans. It is amazing where your day can turn when you have no plans: meeting people or just going to a little pub on the side of the road.
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Usually, you lose interest in a story beyond a certain point. But with 'Highway,' there was something very subtle, yet something very influential. I intended 'Highway' to be the first film that I ever made. Didn't happen.
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You graduate from film school and move to Hollywood. Hollywood tells you, 'We're not the place for you to make films,' so you decide you have to make a film yourself.
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We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.
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I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco politics, where it's not even a contact sport - it's a blood sport. This is how I am as a candidate. This is how I run campaigns.
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To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
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The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.
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'LazyTown' is basically about motivation. So what do I call motivation? I call it 'go.' The show is going to inspire kids to go. Go fishing. Go dancing. Go live.
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Heavenly Father has given us a priceless gift in our capacity to communicate with each other. Our communications are at the core of our relationships with others. If we are to return home safely to Heavenly Father, we must develop righteous relationships with His children here in mortality.
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When we don't have all the details about our characters, we have to make it up to fill in all the details. So, for me, writing and acting go hand in hand.
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I liked St. Louis, when they were in the American League, because that was going home. I had all my family and friends there.
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The ability to convince people of the wackiest notions - and both parties can do it - it's part of the dumbing down of America that's really highly problematic.
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I've had such an odd career.
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I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.
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The single biggest surprise about arriving to the Senate is the defeatist attitude here.
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Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.
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Sometimes you don't realize how far you've gotten until you look around at the people who are still trailing far behind you.
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Almost everything about American society is affected by World War II: our feelings about race; our feelings about gender and the empowerment of women, moving women into the workplace; our feelings about our role in the world. All of that comes in a very direct way out of World War II.
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I send you a kaffis of mustard seed, that you may taste and acknowledge the bitterness of my victory.
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I have composed several pieces which are performed outdoors, not only in the auditoria.
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I guess I'm a really analytical person, but when I'm writing, all that stuff goes behind a screen. Analysis and taking things apart is really important and really interesting, but it's the direct opposite of creating something, which has to do with taking things and putting them together and hoping to make something unique that's more than the sum of its parts. And you can't do that with analysis, you can only take things into smaller and smaller pieces.
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To make our communications more effective, we need to shift our thinking from "What information do I need to convey?" to "What questions do I want my audience to ask?
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Anyone who has ever asked for directions knows you need two crucial pieces of information to get good results: a starting point and a destination.
