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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• 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

• 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

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

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • You
  • Open
  • Mouth

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Deprived of the opportunity to judge one another by the cars we drive, New Yorkers, thrown together daily on mass transit, form silent opinions based on our choices of subway reading. Just by glimpsing the cover staring back at us, we can reach the pinnacle of carnal desire or the depths of hatred. Soul mate or mortal enemy.

  

  David Rakoff
  • Together
  • Soul
  • Opportunity

• I have a Dominique Wilkins Hawks jersey that I still wear. That's probably my favorite one. What's funny is that I spend all this time collecting jerseys, and now people are out there collecting mine.

  

  Chris Paul
  • People
  • Time
  • Funny

• Life is short. Ricky and I realize how lucky we were. We want to be together all the time.

  

  Christie Brinkley
  • Life
  • Time
  • Together

• I've loved music always, and my music fire was lit by Elvis Presley, really, and all that was happening back then.

  

  David Lynch The Platters
  • Music
  • Fire
  • Lit

• Remember - the universal language is not texted, emailed, or spoken. It is felt.

  

  Angela Ahrendts
  • Remember

• The western view of Christ is usually of a stainless being with fair hair who appears to have come from Oslo.

  

  Jim Crace
  • Hair

• In the deaf community, in order to play a role of someone with a hearing loss... you have to have hearing loss.

  

  Katie Leclerc
  • Community

• There's now, for the first time, a huge gulf between the artefacts of our everyday life and what even a single expert, let alone the average child, can comprehend. The gadgets that now pervade young people's lives, iPhones and suchlike, are baffling 'black boxes' - pure magic to most people.

  

  Martin Rees
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I won't let love disrupt, corrupt, or interrupt me.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Love
  • Corrupt
  • Disruption

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

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Nature
  • Humanity
  • Temples

• People stood on their chairs, cheering and waving. And it was all for me! Waves of love flooded the stage and washed over me. I started to cry. The sweetness of such a moment is impossible to describe. One is both lover and beloved. ... I'd found the one true, enduring romance of my life.

  

  Bette Davis
  • People
  • Life
  • Cry

• When I was young, I would stay in my backyard and I would create roads and tunnels and systems. My uncle had a sawmill, and we had all sorts of pieces of wood, and we'd create a city. I truly believe that kids enjoy the box better than the car or the toy that's inside. So many times during Christmas, watching a kid, or even myself... There is excitement toward your toy, but then you put the toy on the side and something is created with the package.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • Believe
  • Kids
  • Car

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

  

  Brian Henson
  • Puppetry
  • Science physics enthusiasm