Cressida Cowell Quotes

We're all snatching precious moments from the peaceful jaws of time.

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• I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Film
  • Fire
  • Did

• One thing you know, if you've been in technology a while, you're only as good as the last thing you did. No one wants an original iPod. No one wants an iPhone 3GS.

  

  Eddy Cue
  • Good
  • Technology
  • iPhone

• The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • May
  • Environment
  • Year

• It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Fun
  • Role
  • Bull

• I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • English
  • Escape
  • Songwriter

• I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • People
  • Me
  • Creativity

• Suburbia is all about private ownership and not having to share, and it leads to a paranoid, defensive mindset. I know this, having grown up in Essex.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Up
  • Know
  • Mindset

• I believe a democracy needs men and women of conviction in its positions of leadership in order for us to succeed. That's the subject of 'A Perfect Candidate,' a film I made 20 years ago about Oliver North and Charles Robb.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Women

• I have lost a lot of clothes over the years... Probably the oldest garment that I still have would be my Union Jack jacket from John Galliano's spring/summer 1993 show.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Lost
  • Years
  • Summer

• I'm not a huge fan of scary movies, but I love doing them because your character arc gets condensed, and everything is elevated, and so you kind of have this amazing opportunity to go in many different places.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Character
  • Opportunity
  • Amazing

• It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • Religious
  • Politics
  • British

• The accumulated knowledge of materials, computing, electromagnetism, product design, and all the rest that we've learned over the last several centuries converts a few ounces of raw materials worth mere pennies into a device with more computing power than the entire planet possessed fifty years ago.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Power
  • Knowledge
  • Rest

• A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within 10 seconds.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Simple

• With his death, we have lost a very great chess genius whose like we'll never see again.

  

  Alexander Alekhine
  • Great
  • Death
  • Lost

• I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.

  

  Alan Parker
  • Aesthetic

• In fashion, the time is so short, and even with pre-collection, there are not only dresses, shoes, bags, and furs but now raincoats and T-shirts. It's just an endless amount of work that we have to produce in no time.

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • Time
  • Work
  • Fashion

• Let's have the music that will open the door to millions of people... the kind of music that will not make people think only of the song or even of the singer... not music that is confined to the merely personal.

  

  Nelson Eddy
  • People
  • Music
  • Song

• The Internet offers the ability for people to consume poison and radicalize entirely in private, either through a device they're holding in their hands or inside their house.

  

  James Comey
  • People
  • House

• Mix sheer hypocrisy with mediocrity, You play it safe every time.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Time
  • Safe
  • Plays

• It took me a long time, but I don't feel as anxious about stupid things anymore - or perhaps they've just been replaced by more complicated stupid things.

  

  Neil Finn Crowded House
  • Time
  • Long
  • Stupid

• With a face like this, there aren't a lot of lawyers or priest roles coming my way. I've got a face that was meant for a mug shot, and that's what I've been doing for the past thirty years.

  

  M. C. Gainey
  • Past
  • Doing
  • Lawyers

• And you stood there in front of me justClose enough to touch,Close enough to hope you couldn't seeWhat I was thinking of.Drop everything now,Meet me in the pouring rain.Kiss me on the sidewalk,Take away the pain.'Cause I see sparks fly whenever you smile.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Thinking
  • Hope
  • Pain

• There were very strict social conventions, and you adhered to it, and I think it gave you a lot of character. When a man said something, he meant it. He wasn't kidding around. There were no jokes involved. Nobody was in the mood to joke unless you hit a guy with a baseball bat.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Character
  • Guy
  • Baseball

• We're all snatching precious moments from the peaceful jaws of time.

  

  Cressida Cowell
  • Time
  • Moments
  • Jaws