Bill Courtney Quotes

In the marathon of life, there is no finish line.

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• Film is really the one art form that can effectively use silence. Music and theater can play with silence, but they can't sustain silence without losing energy, whereas film can go into a silent mode and stay there for minutes at a time.

  

  Walter Murch
  • Time
  • Music
  • Art

• I don't mind not being cool.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Mind
  • Cool
  • Being

• With the word creative we stand under a mystery. And from time to time that mystery, as if it were a sun, sends down upon one head or another, a sudden shaft of light - by grace, one feels, rather than deserving, for it always is something given, free, unsought, unexpected.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Time
  • Free
  • Light

• Modernity is the most transient of qualities.

  

  Anthony Daniels
  • Quality
  • Modernity
  • Transient

• I feel like I had to learn how to take care of myself and find out what made me happy aside from just making films.

  

  Winona Ryder
  • Happy
  • Care
  • Films

• You were afraid this might be the case. Your dad has blocked the front door with the REFRIGERATOR. Looks like he's taking the grounding seriously this time.

  

  Andrew Hussie
  • Door
  • Refrigerator
  • Grounding

• The one who swallows cactuses with spines should not complain about hemorrhoids.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • Should
  • Complaining
  • Spine

• Carl Rinsch has a good balance between the visual and the drama and action, so I thought if he's going to direct, we can make a new, epic film. My fear was gone when I met him.

  

  Hiroyuki Sanada
  • Action
  • Film
  • Drama

• The fatalism of the limits-to-growth alternative is reasonable only if one ignores all the resources beyond our atmosphere, resources thousands of times greater than we could ever obtain from our beleaguered Earth. As expressed very beautifully in the language of House Concurrent Resolution 451, 'This tiny Earth is not humanity's prison, is not a closed and dwindling resource, but is in fact only part of a vast system rich in opportunities...'

  

  Gerard K. O'Neill
  • Beautiful
  • Opportunity
  • Humanity

• I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Good
  • Change
  • Marathon

• When I make a live-action movie, it's a very physical process. It's like running a marathon.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Live
  • Movie
  • Action

• I might have to do the London Marathon. I like crowds, so that is why I like the big marathons.

  

  Cara Buono
  • Why
  • London
  • Marathon

• Angela spared a glare for Kami, and then resumed her marathon glaring session at Jared. 'It's too weird. I'm going to call you Carl.' Jared scowled. 'I don't want you to call me Carl.' 'That's interesting, Carl,' said Angela, cheering up.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Interesting
  • Said
  • Cheer

• Never run more than 3 hours straight in training, whether your marathon best is 2:42 or 4:24.

  

  Ed Eyestone
  • Training
  • Run
  • Marathon

• TV is, as I'm discovering now, a marathon. You have to keep going and going and going.

  

  Jonathan Nolan
  • Television
  • Marathon
  • Keep Going

• Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.

  

  Michael Johnson
  • Opportunity
  • Moments
  • Given

• I believe the greatest trick of the devil is not to get us into some sort of evil but rather have us wasting time. This is why the devil tries so hard to get Christians to be religious. If he can sink a man's mind into habit, he will prevent his heart from engaging God. I was into habit.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Time
  • God
  • Believe

• In the marathon of life, there is no finish line.

  

  Bill Courtney
  • Marathon
  • Finish Line