Brian Henson Quotes

I was already sort of mixing my science physics enthusiasm with entertainment and directing and puppetry.

Brian Henson

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• With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.

  

  Carl Rogers
  • Life
  • Free
  • You

• When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Genius

• Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Work
  • Want
  • Influence

• A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God.

  

  Walter Martin
  • God
  • Spiritual
  • Strength

• I think eventually private enterprise will be able to send people into orbit, but I suspect initially it's going to have to be with NASA's help.

  

  Sally Ride
  • People
  • Help
  • Think

• At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Men
  • Art
  • Man

• When people think girl adventurers, they tend to think of a spunky, plucky tom-boy with a chip on her shoulder. I'm not saying that this makes for a dull character, but I think other types of adventurous girls exist. It's easy to fall into well-established tropes, believing that the tropes of a genre define the genre itself.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • People
  • Character
  • Girl

• In countries where there are no racial differences or no religious differences, people find other reasons to set aside one certain group of people and generally spit in their direction.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Religious
  • Differences

• I'm a communicator.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Communicator

• Life is too short, and I need to eat. I am my meanest when I haven't had a meal.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Life
  • Short
  • Eat

• If the heavens throw you dates, you got to keep your mouth open.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • You
  • Open
  • Mouth

• Of all the passions that inspire a man in a battle, none, we have to admit, is so powerful and so constant as the longing for honor and reknown.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Powerful
  • Honor

• It would be a much better country if women did not vote. That is simply a fact. In fact, in every presidential election since 1950 - except Goldwater in '64 - the Republican would have won, if only the men had voted.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Men
  • Women
  • Country

• Nulli penitus descendere ferrocontigit; alta sedent civilis volnera dextrae.

  

  Lucan

• I love India. I've always been drawn to it, and I hope that I get to visit the country soon.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Country
  • Hope

• Death isn't a funny thing. We're all lucky to be living.

  

  Pauly Shore
  • Death
  • Funny

• I invite a lot of my friends to some of the performances that I do locally, and some of them know that I'm involved with music, but they're not quite sure how. And so it's kind of fun to play golf with a lot of my friends and then invite them to hear me sing once in a while.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Fun

• I don't spend as much time on my hair as people think. I get out of the shower, whack some grease on there and I'm done.

  

  Chris Isaak
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• The way a woman carries herself and the way she dresses ought to promote the following types of words: modesty, discretion, wisdom, beauty, elegance and refinement, but not sensuality, luxury, extravagance.

  

  Paul Washer
  • Words
  • Dresses
  • Carries

• It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.

  

  Marquis de Sade
  • Pain

• To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Nature
  • Humanity
  • Temples

• Independent films in this country are in the same position. Miramax and Fine Line are not independent - they're with Disney! Come on. Or they're with Warner Brothers. They're all with somebody.

  

  Dennis Hopper
  • Country
  • Independent
  • Disney

• Why is football important? Good question. Like Will Rogers said, all of us can't be heroes, somebody's gotta sit on the curb and clap when they ride by. I think that's what it is. People want to pull for something, whether it's America and you want to fly your flag ... why are NASCAR fans so adamant? Why do they pull for Jeff Gordon or Little E? People want to have something to pull for. You become part of a brotherhood. If you're a Dallas Cowboy fan, you seek out other Dallas Cowboy fans.

  

  Walt Garrison
  • People
  • Important
  • Football

• I was already sort of mixing my science physics enthusiasm with entertainment and directing and puppetry.

  

  Brian Henson
  • Puppetry
  • Science physics enthusiasm