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

• In the character of the victim Lincoln, and even in the accessories of his last moments, there is something so homely and innocent that it takes the question, as it were, out of all the pomp of history and the ceremonial of diplomacy-it touches the heart of nations and appeals to the domestic sentiment of mankind.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Heart
  • Character
  • History

• Kanye is so much fun. He's a wonderful person. What I love about Kim and Kanye is that I think they save their happy moments and their smiles for themselves rather than sharing everything with the public. And listen, when a camera is shoved in your face trying to take a selfie, you do not want to smile.

  

  Chrissy Teigen
  • Trying
  • Happy
  • Fun

• This is a perilous time, and more than ever, the world needs a united and strong America. If, God forbid, we live to see Mr. Obama president, we will live through a socialist era that America has not seen before, and our country will be weakened in every way.

  

  Jon Voight
  • Time
  • World
  • God

• Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time. One or the other must dominate. It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind. Here the law of HABIT will come to your aid. Form the habit of applying and using the positive emotions! Eventually, they will dominate your mind so completely, that the negatives cannot enter it.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Law

• Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.

  

  Ken Burns
  • America

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

  

  Cressida Cowell
  • Time
  • Moments
  • Jaws