George Sewell Quotes
The imagination is a place all by itself. A separate country. Now, you've heard of the French nation, the British nation. Well, this is the Imagi-nation. It's a wonderful place.
Quotes to Explore
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Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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I made all my generals out of mud.
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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It doesn't sound too good to say I am the son of a landowner, so let us rather say I am the grandson of exploited Galician peasants.
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I think that everything starts to go to hell when you start smelling your own farts and complimenting yourself on how great they smell. We're not going to turn into fart-smellers.
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That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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In the end, crime doesn't pay.
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What they are, are stories about ordinary people going through extraordinary circumstances in which I'm exploring truth. How light overcomes darkness in a way that's unmistakable to anyone who has any kind of faith.
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It's better to be skinny than to be fat.
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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
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I work so I don't need to make rent through my songs, and I think if more people engaged with music without needing it to provide for their welfare, you're not beholden to anyone.
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I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet.
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I started working at age thirteen. I'm a product of public schools, I'm a product of a public university. I started my first company when I was 21. I've subsequently never worked for anybody else. I started that first business when I was still in college.
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Time is the wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.
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I feel like 'Amelie' is very much an extension of me. She's a contemporary woman who sees the world through her imagination.
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One man envies the success in life of another, and hates him in secret; nor is he willing to give him good advice when he is consulted, except it be by some wonderful effort of good feeling, and there are, alas, few such men in the world. A real friend, on the other hand, exults in his friend's happiness, rejoices in all his joys, and is ready to afford him the best advice.
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In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment - independent will - that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
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The imagination is a place all by itself. A separate country. Now, you've heard of the French nation, the British nation. Well, this is the Imagi-nation. It's a wonderful place.
