Bear McCreary Quotes

Tension, especially with regard to horror, is a very difficult thing to sustain in the big sense.

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• I went through a lot in middle school, and you always try so many different looks and try to be so many different people. I finally realized I'm awkward, I'm lanky, and I'm going to embrace it - make fun of myself and just laugh.

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • People
  • Different
  • School

• There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Mission
  • Statement
  • Toast

• If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Country
  • Die
  • Suffering

• I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

  

  Barbara Mertz
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Habit

• Most of the largest software companies in the world today are based on Oracle, and they were once startups.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • World
  • Today
  • Software

• The only thing I insist that everybody do is there has to be a basketball court in every game I do, and - with one exception, I let them get away with it once - you can actually shoot a ball through the basket in every game I've made.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Game
  • You
  • Basketball

• Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this... only the best is good enough for a child.

  

  Zoltan Kodaly
  • Good
  • Children
  • Best

• I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • Ideas
  • Jazz

• The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • Art
  • War

• The Weizmann Institute showed me respect and didn't require many administrative tasks, so I was quite independent. I did what I wanted.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Respect
  • Independent
  • Wanted

• I never went to school for acting; it just comes to me. I never practice. I read the script, I'll memorize it. I don't even practice the acting. I'll just do it the day, and it will just come to me.

  

  Dakota Goyo
  • School
  • Day
  • Practice

• Music is split up now into little pockets.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Up
  • Music
  • Little

• At His Ascension our Lord entered Heaven, and He keeps the door open for humanity to enter.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Heaven
  • Humanity
  • Door

• Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Desire
  • Elysian Fields
  • Mistral

• Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

  

  Antisthenes
  • Gifts
  • Marriages
  • Quarrels

• We are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed, in defiance of international good faith, by the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.

  

  H. H. Asquith
  • Good
  • Power
  • War

• It's a complicated set of opinions that women bring to the voting booth.

  

  Eleanor Clift
  • Women
  • Opinions
  • Booth

• Life has shown me all too often that there is no rhyme or reason to the cruelty inflicted upon humanity.

  

  Cassia Leo
  • Reason
  • Humanity
  • Cruelty

• For a bowl of water give a goodly meal; For a kindly greeting bow thou down with zeal; For a simple penny pay thou back with gold; If thy life be rescued, life do not withhold. Thus the words and actions of the wise regard; Every little service tenfold they reward. But the truly noble know all men as one, And return with gladness good for evil done.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Evil
  • Service

• Was Christ God incarnate? Yes, of course, but so are we all. This in no way detracts from the divinity of Christ, who must have been a very advanced incarnation of God. And for those Christians who feel uncomfortable with the notion that we are all incarnations of God, and therefore brothers and sisters of Christ, let me quote John 14:12: “In all truth I tell you, whoever believes in me will perform the same works as I do myself, and will perform even greater works, because I am going to the Father.

  

  Bernard Haisch
  • Father
  • Christians
  • Believes

• Tension, especially with regard to horror, is a very difficult thing to sustain in the big sense.

  

  Bear McCreary
  • Horror
  • Regard
  • Tension