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

• This wasn’t just an attack against the Boston Marathon... It was an attack against the American public and our democratic use of the streets. We have used our public roadways for annual parades, protest marches, presidential inaugurations, marathons, and all manner of other events. The roads belong to us, and their use represents an important part of our free and democratic tradition.

  

  Amby Burfoot
  • Important
  • Tradition
  • Presidential

• The marathon never ceases to be a race of joy, a race of wonder.

  

  Hal Higdon
  • Running
  • Joy
  • Wonder

• You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.

  

  Jack Black
  • Power
  • Never
  • Underestimate

• Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit.

  

  Carl Clinton Van Doren
  • Piece
  • Tale
  • Strife

• We can do many different things as a band. But that doesn't mean we should do that. If we did all we're capable of, it doesn't necessarily mean we'd be writing better songs. None of us are huge fans of bands that seem to go, 'OK, I'm gonna sing for no reason and then scream for no reason just because I can.'

  

  Alissa White-Gluz The Agonist
  • Band
  • Fans
  • Different Things

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

  

  Bill Courtney
  • Marathon
  • Finish Line