Down Quotes
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Oftentimes when you see adaptations of books you like, you're let down. As an author, you assume that they are going to suck. A little bit of hope is dangerous.
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The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlikely, so why not take care of yourself?
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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In 1775, no fewer than nine colonies had established churches, ranging from Congregational establishments in New Hampshire, Connecticut and Massachusetts to Episcopal churches in the southern states from Maryland on down.
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Some of my ideas were shot down by Lucasfilm because they stepped on territory that has been reserved for the movies. I didn't have a problem with that.
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Dinosaurs are built just like birds - they can squat down, they can get up. Mammals, when we lay down, we throw our legs out to the sides - birds cannot do that. Dinosaurs could not do that either.
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I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.
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Don't let the muggles get you down.
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If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.
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I used to be affected by criticism thrown at me, and I would get really down. But I got to a point where I just decided to go for it, no matter what negativity is around you.
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I'm not a believer in the pratfall. I don't think it's funny just to have someone fall down.
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Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.
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I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe.
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It's not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an idea is when I start it.
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If you rent, that's it. You don't have to pay any interest to anybody. You don't have to pay any maintenance costs to anybody. You don't have to worry about whether the boiler is going to break down. While if you own your own home, you have a hundred aggravations.
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When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would do in the situation. I'm always like, 'Well, she has to do that because that's what the story is.'
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Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
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If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
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If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens.
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I could never let the teacher down. I always worked hard, too scared to get in trouble.
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Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe.
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I only started playing piano because I had chickenpox when I was about 14 and wasn't allowed to play my drums for a whole week... We had a piano in the house, so I just sat down and played that instead.
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Oh, I'm quite the impulse buyer. Most of what I buy is stuff for my Jeep, 'cause it breaks down a lot.
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I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
