Ed Gass-Donnelly Quotes
My favorites movies are always character driven, it's the human equation that makes horror interesting to me, not the monsters. It's how people handle extreme circumstances.
Quotes to Explore
-
The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
-
Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
-
I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.
-
Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him.
-
Once you join the queue for the immigration line, pay attention to what the expeditor tells you. Have your papers ready. Don't have your cell phone out. Take off your hat. Open your passport to the page with your photo and present it to the immigration officer already open.
-
Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist.
-
I started singing very early. I was six or seven years old, and I was singing along to TV commercials and figuring out, 'Oh, hey, I can sing in tune. This is really cool.' But the songwriting thing came much much later, when I was 19 years old.
-
I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.
-
It will soon be 25 years from the date of publication of my first research work. That the scientific aspirations kindled by that early work did not suffer extinction has been due entirely to the opportunities provided for me by the great city of Calcutta.
-
I thought I would reflect here on a theme most scientists enjoy recalling: the part luck played in their accomplishments.
-
I think that addiction is a very, very important thing that has to be treated, but has to be treated as a health problem and not as a police problem.
-
'Job Killer.' Those are the two words you are most likely to hear uttered by most American CEOs when confronted with proposals to enact family-friendly work policies.
-
Responsibility educates.
-
Cause when you're fifteenAnd somebody tells you they love you,you're gonna believe them.And when you're fifteen,Feeling like there's nothing to figure out,Well count to ten, take it in.This is life before you knowWho you're gonna be,You're fifteen.
-
When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion.
-
The first thing I do each morning is get out of bed and give my dog, Audrey, a hug. She's a Jack Russell. I think having an animal is a wonderful thing, particularly dogs. They are great levelers, there's no nonsense with them, and they just want simple affection.
-
I only have one job, and that's being a storyteller.
-
It is essential that God created men and women to be one, as it is said in the first chapters of the Bible. So I think even if our culture is against marriage as essential form of relations between human beings, between women and men. I think our nature is always present, and we can understand it if we will understand it.
-
I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes.
-
There's no such thing as ageing gracefully. I don't meet people who want to get Alzheimer's disease, or who want to get cancer or arthritis or any of the other things that afflict the elderly. Ageing is bad for you, and we better just actually accept that.
-
The economic picture in the States today doesn't allow for jazz concerts in a tour fashion. People now are too used to the Festival, which gives them more names for the same price.
-
As a group, we want to follow good and green strategy. Setting targets is one element of that. The second part is to design products which meet environmental goals.
-
What the other teams do is something that I can never control, so I just keep focussed on my direction.
-
My favorites movies are always character driven, it's the human equation that makes horror interesting to me, not the monsters. It's how people handle extreme circumstances.
