Elliot W. Eisner Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.
Sam Donaldson -
I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.
Laura Z. Hobson -
I go out, but not too much. When I'm on tour, I just write a lot of music and sleep.
Wale -
I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.
Owain Yeoman -
In my eyes, a patriot is little more than an international blackleg.
Tariq Ali -
True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.
R. D. Laing
-
Security people are often the black-and-white kind of people that I can't stand. I think the OpenBSD crowd is a bunch of masturbating monkeys, in that they make such a big deal about concentrating on security to the point where they pretty much admit that nothing else matters to them.
Linus Torvalds -
Who is the loving person? The loving person is the person who loves him or herself. I say this so often, and people say, 'Oh yes, you're so right,' but they don't do it! You will never be able to love anyone else until you love yourself. Even With your Fat Thighs!
Leo Buscaglia -
'True Romance' was definitely, in part, still me finding my voice as a writer. I was nervous, and I was a lot more shy. The album sounds bruised.
Charli XCX -
This economy is not getting better and the president's policies are the reason.
Jim Talent -
Hospitality exists when you believe that the other person is on your side.
Danny Meyer -
I don't want to be an artist; I don't really want to sing - though I do sing on a few songs. But I want to be the guy that presents new music from both new artists and established artists at the same time.
Jason Boyd
-
I escaped to New York, and then L.A., but when I dream of home, I still dream of my old house in Holmdel.
Lorene Scafaria -
'I realize they say we are 'wacko' and 'out there, but we are the most rational of all.
Brigitte Boisselier -
Under the Assads, Kurds were forbidden from learning their own language at school, or even from speaking it in the military. The result is a generation of Syrian Kurds, many now in late middle age, who can't write their own language.
Luke Harding -
To be absolutely alone for the first time in the cockpit of a plane hundreds of feet above the ground is an experience never to be forgotten.
Charles Lindbergh -
When I did the pilot, Mort was very real to me. When I got through with the ten weeks, Maura is even more real to me.
Jeffrey Tambor -
An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
Fred Allen
-
I feel like L.A. is more of a showcase, and Chicago is a pure comedy scene where you're doing comedy for comedy. You're doing comedy actually for the audience that's there.
Jake Johnson -
My work is my play. I found a way to make my passion to be the same as how I make a living.
Buck Brannaman -
Well, more than me saying to the rest of the country music industry there is not enough traditional country music - that is not necessarily the statement in truth. I think more so that I, me, missed it more than anything else.
Vince Gill -
The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.
Barack Obama -
Came out my mama's pussy, I'm on welfare. Twenty-six years old, still on welfare.
Ol' Dirty Bastard -
Art is literacy of the heart.
Elliot W. Eisner