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

• I always look on the bright side of everything. If you keep aiming for some goal, you usually get there if you don't give up.

  

  Bart Cummings
  • Goal
  • Aiming
  • Don't Give Up

• 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 only watch the last 40 seconds. Watching a whole marathon over time, the beginning, middle and end look very slow. I want to see action! I can't help it.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Time
  • Help
  • Action

• In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • World
  • College
  • Water

• 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

• Just as you can't become a marathon runner by watching marathons on TV, likewise for science, you have to go through the thought processes of doing science and not just watch your instructor do it.

  

  Eric Mazur
  • Science
  • Marathon
  • Runner

• I have several close friends who have run marathons, a word that is actually derived from two Swahili words: mara, which means 'to die a horrible death', and thon, which means 'for a stupid T-shirt.' Look it up.

  

  Celia Rivenbark
  • Running
  • Mean
  • Stupid

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

  

  Bill Courtney
  • Marathon
  • Finish Line