Carolyn Mackler Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
-
I am definitely romantic, and I love romantic stories - that's why I keep making romantic movies.
-
It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.
-
With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtroom drama to be had with the intellectual properties. And then what further drew me in was that the most extraordinary social networking device ever created was created by the world's most antisocial person. I liked that story.
-
I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'
-
Crime novels, it has been said, show the human psyche under pressure.
-
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
-
Los Angeles is a good city in which to be a reporter. Always entertaining, always an incubator.
-
Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.
-
For me the only training in Swaraj we need is the ability to defend ourselves against the whole world and to live our natural life in perfect freedom, even though it may be full of defects. Good government is no substitute for self-government.
-
I treat paintings as I treat objects. If a window in a picture looks wrong, I close it and draw the curtains, just as I would do in my own room.
-
I go to bed angry and I get up angrier every morning.
-
There is mystery here, but a soft, sure mystery that is understood and only remains a mystery because I want it so. The mystery of the nighthawk against a darkening sky, the puzzle of the firefly along the lilac hedge.
-
I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of sudden a thought occurred to me: If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight. I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation.
-
It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that 'Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had,-being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity.'
-
If I could visit dead authors, I'd head right over to E. B. White, though I'm so in awe of him I'd probably just sit at his feet and weep. He's the master of clarity, of understated humor, of palatable political conviction.
-
Women have helped shape our world, yet still do not receive the recognition and compensation they deserve.
-
My fans get passionate about certain songs.
-
Nobody complains that Bernini's sculptures are too darn real, right? Or that Norman Rockwell's paintings are too creepy. Well, robots can seem real and be loved, too. We're trying to make a new art medium out of robotics.
-
Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.
-
Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth.
-
The History Of The Universe In Three Words CHAPTER ONE Bang! CHAPTER TWO sssss CHAPTER THREE crunch. THE END
-
Among the facts of the universe to be accounted for, it may be said, is Mind; and it is self evident that nothing can have produced Mind but Mind.
-
Whether it is clear or unclear to you the universe is folding as it should
